hi there folks Kirk here with Kirk giordano plastering, today what we're going to do is
mold an abatement type stuff the home here the homeowners are getting mold in their living
rooms it's climbing up the walls mushrooming it's just making their life miserable so I've come by
to see what the heck they might have done wrong and I see right away what they did wrong when
they built this fence ten years ago they tied into the house but they didn't tie in properly
so what we're going to do today since we're here we're going to fix this we're just going to lap
this today I'm going to put a z slash in on the bottom here we'd have to protect the mudsill now
we're going to lap this up so you can come on this side Jake now what they did here was they they put
these studs against the house they didn't have to do that what I mean for me I would have just left
the stucco and Lag bolted the stud to the house if if they wanted to they could have just left
it separate but now they opened a can of worms so the water is coming here and it's going down this
horrible detail and it's just flooding in here I can see no paper so water is just flooding here
what we're going to do is we're going to break it all back about to hear both sides and put our new
paper here come around and feather it in and patch this up the proper way okay guys same wall what
I've done here is we've got two layers of paper on this so we've got two layers and this is a
Salford paper back or studs so we're putting this on also so it's three layers it's more than what
we need but I buy the rolls that are already spot glued together so two here and then an additional
it's kind of overkill but to buy a roll of single ply just isn't we don't really save that much time
energy office so we put this all back together this against here over here we ran into some
issues why they have some molds on the inside of the house generally again when water gets
inside a wall what happened is it will saturate a sheer wall thereby saturating the insulation then
the sheetrock will also saturate in about a week you'll see all these spores on it mold a little
black fuzzy stuff in when that dries you walk by it you hit it with a towel or so it spreads it in
the air kind of gives you flu-like symptoms so that one wall over here we'll get back to that
in a minute and we'll show you why we have to remove a whole wall in order to correct
it all right guys here's the wall in question we tried to tie this in but the whole wall is wrong
what they did is they paper this when they had an odd detail here so instead of using a grace
membrane up here where it can take this corner they just use the paper and so you've got your
stud here then the shear comes out a half-inch so it's kind of an odd detail but we seal all we're
going to are going to tear this whole thing off this is the dining room in here there is no way I
can waterproof this and the way anybody can let's rip it off so we're going to tear this off we're
going to take our new paper up to this header or fascia board when we take it to the fascia board
we are going to use it to the fascia board with caulking so obviously that's what they're paying
us for to fix this correctly so they're not home right now but I guess I'll show them this wall
we had to remove when we get to that stage all right guys worst-case scenario is this we we had
a tie in here of two inches then we went to four inches then we went to six and finally determined
after going horizontally here that it's plywood probably not in fact you can see it's completely
rotted out well certain things that copper grain just cannot repair so we're going to
remove this entire sheet here and probably going to insulate it again from the outside
once it gets really thoroughly saturated like this it's best to change the insulation as well
as the plywood so you'll see us at that stage next okay guys homeowners had to take a look at
this I had to explain to them their options what we've decided to do is they went back to the city
and they including included the framing as well as the shear wall on the same permit it's not a
big deal to do I explain to these guys this is actually as a blessing in disguise because they
were getting ready to tear the inside apart which they have cabinets they got a lot of things on
the inside would be a major job to tear all the cabinets out they were going to remove all the
sheetrock and the insulation they would have found this piece of plywood anyway and they would have
been out here doing this but by the time they did sheetrock removal the insulation removal came out
here did this and put it all back together which involves new insulation sheetrock three coats of
taping mud prime it paint it not to mention you got to section it off really really well inside
it takes hours just a section at all with zipper bags so that you contain all the spores blessing
in disguise to do it from the outside and gee we're here anyway they wanted me to do it so I'm
just doing time and materials what we're going to do here is I'm going to cut this header out
because the headers and my opinion copper green just is not going to do it so we're going to use
our Saul's off cut these guys right here remove this header and of course when we remove the
header there's going to be some interior damage because the screws that hold this sheetrock are
going to be inside the header or nails so when we remove that it's going to take the heads off
and it's going to go through this sheetrock here not a big deal where I've got some tape and mud in
my truck and we're going to fix that up too but that's along the way so what I'm trying to do
to cut costs is I've got a ten o'clock a framing inspection here now if all goes according to plan
which sometimes they do we're going to remove this guy here it's about 7:30 right now we're
going to have in the morning we're going to have this guy out of here and we'll replace it then at
10 o'clock the framing inspector gets here and he'll say okay that's groovy then we can while
we're here go ahead and sheet it and prior to shooting it I'll show you what we're going to
do on this sheet rock actually looks pretty good I see a couple well it looks pretty good to me I'm
going to spray this out with the Clorox solution which kills a lot of the well the majority of the
mold spores you'll see that and then we're going to put new insulation we're going to do a five ply
here which is basically when you're going with a shear wall you've got to go five ply plywood
and we're going to be using on ten penny keep Dee nails it's just a common nail it's a fat nail and
has a more structural strength than the regular nails all right guys 15 the inspectors a little
bit late we got this done we're ready I'm just messing around now putting some copper copper
green on it and actually just to be on the safe side I got a Clorox solution here you can use
TSP or Clorox I'll just spraying the sheet rock inside in case there's any mud spores that I
can't see this kills the majority of it we are ready for an inspection and hopefully he won't
take too long if so we have to take lunch and come on back here but you get the idea
frame it up this was we had to do that guy there otherwise it wouldn't have the integrity as it
should so we'll see in a few minutes okay guys next phase we didn't have to to long for that
fella I'm going to put the shear on now with a shear we got a nail into the studs we're using
Tenpenny nails Commons there any fat nails so I'm marking these right here so I can see
and then when I string line a line be able to just pound it off with a gun that's we're going
next and then we're going to get out of here and come back after they inspected the shear I'm not
waiting again so when they're done with the shear we come back and complete the laughs then there's
one more inspection with the lab inspection then we can begin our scratching breath okay guys we're
getting ready to get out of here shear is up every four inches is how we nail off it's Tenpenny nails
and it's structural one go into detail but I don't want to bore you we're leaving now that we're
going to come back after inspect it has a chance to go ahead and sign off then we'll show you
the lab all right guys all this just for a small section anyhow we have completed the lab and the
reason it leaked in the first place was because when they did the paper they didn't take the paper
to the fascia board they took a chai and then they didn't caulk it so number one thing about majority
of jobs we repair that's people just don't [ __ ] it around scuppers especially you got a [ __ ] it
how to [ __ ] your windows indoors so we're going to get out of here again this has been a multiple
trip job because of this wall here but it's not the first time we've encountered it I'm surely not
going to be the last so we'll see it when we get back here another day to do the scratch all right
guys I'm using it's called a hopper reinforced fibers mesh and I'm doing both coats in the same
day this one I wouldn't try to do because you have to have a certification in Omaha bro wall
reinforced fiber mesh Omega and Western reinforced fiber mesh get a certification which means you go
to a class for about six seven hours and they show you how to apply this and they give you the do's
and don'ts so this one out of everybody's realm already put my second coat here but I'm going
to put one more and then once over here is scratch scratch coat here and what we do is we scratch the
whole job it would come back we put the second coat and brown the whole job because there's no
such thing as one coat and we're 7/8 of an inch thick now and then I'm taking my garbage here and
just bringing it up what that does it chews out the wall meaning it's straight it gets it true
and plumb in all directions so this also take a little bit of practice right here when I worked
Union I work behind a gun in it we did this eight hours a day for years just right behind a gun it
takes a lot of practice to use this kind of good but I'll show it to you right when we're almost
done and you'll get an idea again this the hover reinforced fiber mesh I'm not recommending anybody
try that one unless you've got ten years in all right guys last stage right here what I'm doing
is I'm giving it a float finish you take the water from the bucket dip your sponge in it and this is
getting pretty hard already oh I'm just going in circle motion just like this usually if I
don't want any circles in it I'll go back over but they have circles on the other side of this
fist so just like that circles and there you have it folks that's it for this one thank you gay for
doing the video I will see you guys on the next one this is Kirk with kirk giordano plastering.