99/100 kirk and guys Jay and I here with Kirk Giordano plastering, we're going to do now is we
finish doing all this beautiful work around all these pillars and we did a video about two months
ago showing Rib lath, and man I got so many calls about well how does it attach and I thought some
of these folks, I wrote back, I said next time I'm doing a ceiling I'll use it, and I'll show you
how we attach it, well we're doing a sealing and now note if this ceiling had plywood on it
I can go with a three point four mesh that's dimpled the dimpled would be because the the
mushrooming stucco would have to go through the wire and mushroom above it, if it was flat mesh on plywood
just wouldn't stick it just keep falling down. I could still use a three point four mesh but
it's spongy is real spongy and right here I've got a two feet so that's a pretty big span now
what they sell is rib lath a lot of people call it high rib
lath, rib lath is rib lath, and what I've got is okay the rib laths where they generally sell
is 1/8 of an inch or 3/8 when you're using 1/8 inch rib laughs that's for 16 inch centers this
is 16 inch centers but we got two feet there so I went with 3/8 what's the difference this is
much stronger the other say difference in cost is from 4 bucks to 8 bucks and when I went to get to
3/8 they said Kirk we're out of regular 3 H and I said man you kidding me if you're killing me
he says I got some paper back and I said well give me the paper back it's a few cents more
what is this paper for? if you shooting it with a a gun like I used to work with the union, man we used to hang
this stuff 8 hours a day and when you're shooting it with a gun it goes straight through it unless
there's something to stop it it'll just keep going that's what the paper back in this case
it's somewhat useless but I was telling Jay I'm going to go ahead and show you guys how to attach
Rib lath, the main question I get asked I got one a guy who calls me like once every six months four
years I keep telling to write it down I'm gonna stop telling you this stuff it goes by well this
is easy paper goes on the top but the nipple this right here your nipple goes on the top of the V you
should be staring into a V now what man can't remember that? okay so here's what we're going
to do we're going to start off just a two-man job good but I think I can do it myself we're
going to start off square true and plumb hopefully, the first one goes there now I'm going
to staple this off come on out of there all right every few inches into the stud I could see the
stud for the sake of where I have my expansion joint I'm going to leave that loose okay now
now the next piece we're going to overlap it and the groove or the nipple goes into the
other one let me attach this guy so I have it with me that isn't kind of tough again for one
guy to do but let me see if I can do it we want to take our groove into this groove so we take
one of our nipples and we go into the channel and we can get it right get it started half the
battle guys okay that one's in there and this one's in the battle we do the same thing here
and for that fellow who called me I have a big one says how to lap the Woodhouse and this one fella
responded he said don't listen to Kirk that guy's a quack he said he's using 1 ply paper actually we
were using 2 ply paper papers spot blued together so if you had a 20 foot span it doesn't separate
then he said he's using the wrong nails he is inch-and-a-quarter crown when I was doing this
30 years ago we used 7/8 because we didn't even have plywood on the houses the houses were all
stud so we had to stretch the wires and use 7/8 but now that we have a shear wall we switched to
inch and a quarter am I going to buy a box a inch and a quarter just to do this forget it
too much time so ok we got 2 pieces on here this the light I'm going to remember where it is and cut
it out so again until Jay comes up here and helps me with the other piece I'm gonna put I'm a slide
another one into position ok now again all one do and I want to get this nipple into the other
nipple or groove into the groove let's see here come on now line up these grooves
fit right into each other then you get it against the wall and I could I could see straight through
this so I know where my studs are once you get one you line them up they should all lineup and
what's this given guys this gives a something solid to work yeah look what you're doing if
I just use 3.4 mesh I'll be in a bad situation one time we're doing a job 20 30 years ago and
I lathed it with 3.4 mesh, and I had one of my buddies; he wasn't sure how to plaster. I said go
ahead and do that and what I was getting at is it was a big span and so every time he put the
plaster on for the first coat of mud it would go on and it was right above his head because
he was here then he'd moved and go flying and spring it back down on his head, this is rigid so
it's like shear wall when I put my first coat on it will adhere by mushrooming through the top but
more importantly give me a solid structure to work with something I can I'd rather pay the
extra bucks for the three-eighths then use any other material like the 1/8 because it's simply
not as strong anyway guys that's my explanation of how to attach rib laughs Jay is going to help
me finish this and then he's going to cut out these holes right here we just take a pair of
snips in, notch it out, and we're going to be done and getting out of here, my name is Kirk, Jason on
the camera we thank you for watching hope you learned something and as usual we'll see you
guys on the next one, once again, folks, we thank you for watching, and I really enjoy all your
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