hi guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano and sons let me show you guys how to do a parapet roof
generally I'm always telling folks man put a flashing cap on that roof but according
to the prints on this they show an arched roof like this because all the walls you're going to
have bullnose so we are in hearing to that strict pact of bulldozing this out so I'll show you how
I do it now the fella called me says hey these guys Elliot they're Elliott and Elliott by the
way did this roof it man these guys did a such a nice job on this roof um and half the name my
next grandson after those guys it's a Duralast roof and that's this stuff right here Duralast
do I know anything about Duralast no but anyhow I'll show you what we're going to do Dan grab
that piece over there I've flashed the entire roof already this is my last piece I figured I'd show
it to you and what this is is the drip screed okay now originally we had our two layers of paper up
over here and they asked me gee do you want us to take the membrane over it I said heck yes I
want you to take the membrane over it so they took this membrane they went all the way over
here two to three inches six inches in some spots which is perfect now we take our wire here after
we apply a membrane I'll show you the membrane we're applying to in fact come over here for a
second Jason please like stand right there you can see the membrane they used that's a perfect
membrane so they our paper goes up their membrane is continuous it goes over that and what we're
still going to do is what we've done over here we got a peel and stick product you can see it right
here now this is for rails it's for decks it's for a lot of stuff there's 20 different peeling sticks
and some of them are just a good products some of them are Thai don't mention the products that
aren't any how we're putting another membrane over their membrane I'm not certain how thick
their membrane is but ours is comparable and this one of course goes over this side too that makes
this top bulletproof because again normally I tell folks put flashing on the top if you want
that capped elique and I've been doing this for a lot of years over 30 I most of my repair work is
because they have parapet caps like this and they had a 30-pound felt or a 15-pound felt originally
those last about 50 to 60 years with with the rain and the elements it heats it up it bakes
it right off so I want to make certain that within our lifetimes 100 years this won't fail
I'll show you another thing about Elliott which when I came up here I thought man when I hope
those guys do a nice job hope they do a nice job and because our job reflects on theirs and I was
just looking at this I thought oh those guys they cut a line in here with a saw a circular saw they
bent the flashing inside that joint then they put mortar in there you get a fellow doing that kind
of work that is what I recommend that's perfect that's the way to do it if they would I just had
a piece of flashing come in here and they put a ton of polyurethane caulking I see a lot of guys
do that and I kind of judge the fellows by what I see so that looked real real good next thing
we're going to do is we're going to wire this now so I'll show you what we got here our wire this
new wire is going to go over these caps so wires going to go over the caps like so and then bend
down and tie in to our other ones I'm not going to put any staples on the top but I am going to
put a corner aid here and it's a its corner eight and it's bullnose so I'm gonna have this bull this
bull net rounds it off so when we do our stucco it's all round anyhow when we get to that stage
we'll show you more alright guys I'll show you something we cut we cut about ten of these thirty
long for a reason now now what we want to do is because we're putting stuck Alon top of this we're
going to stretch this out and no I don't need to come down to the screed here because I'm going to
attach it with this so what we're going to do is basically I'm going to go about right here
with it and just for the sake of holding this on and each staple I put through this cap that
staple gets polyurethane caulking I'm going to put a couple nails too I'll show you why we're
doing this okay now this for example you can well you can hold that now these this arch eight will
go here and the arch aid is going to give us when we're done we're going to have a rounded
surface here I'm going to bend this wire down here and it's going to overlap our other wire
by two to four inches I don't suspect you can see that but that's okay we're going to put another
corner aide on this side here then when we go to scratch this we're going to scratch it and
I'm going to put a little arc on here when we go to brown it I'm going to put another arc on
here so that way the water doesn't set if a fellow wants to do this without an arch on the top then
you would sometimes have the carpenter build this up they put a little triangle piece of wood here
these are two by sixes I believe maybe two by four well what will happen is one side will be
an inch higher and the other half inch lower and that way when the corners go on one is higher and
it's usually set so that the water hits and it drips in here but we're not doing that on this
particular job we're rounding it off anyhow we're going to go ahead and complete this whole thing
and when we're done with all the corners which are time consuming we'll show you the final detail all
right guys not certain where we are but I'll show you something I have to use my hammer tacker to
hold this wire down so Dan's got the fun job of every little hammer tack staple to go over I'll
show you a couple ways to do this stuff now I'm putting the arch aid I'm sorry they bull-nosed
corners on and what I can do is I normally put these bull-nosed corners on and I it from the
very bottom if I attach it in the middle it pushes them so I'm attaching it in the middle because I'm
not planning on putting any staples in the top here not not the big staples when I do this side
here I'm not planning on putting any now I believe I believe this roofing membrane is probably 50 mil
I don't know and I think the membrane we're using is about a 40 mil and both are supposed to be able
to be nailed through but I kind of want to avoid doing that say for example if I put a staple on
the top where I put a nail on the top I could polyurethane that but here's another technique
guys you go through all this trouble this is Dan's job by the way too time-consuming for me
to do you take a little piece of tie wire put a little hook make it look like a u and you wrap
it here tweak it together with your fingers grab nippers grab it at the bottom here and just spin
it leave it alone now that's tied to here it's tied that's how we're doing the whole top and
then we'll find himself up here for about three hours just doing that boring stuff somebody's got
to do it I'm going to get back to what I'm doing we're we're starting to move here making progress
finally and we are trying to avoid rain which is supposed to be coming tomorrow anyhow when
we get to other stages Owen and lastly to this right here we're tying in to our existing wire
we're coming down we already tied in so I'm uh finishing this off prior to putting corners on
after we're done with the entire roof then I'll show you okay guys we are complete here which
is just in time it's starting to sprinkle and probably going to turn the snow it's cold as
hell here anyway we're all wearing ski jackets now except for me the corners are all done they're all
on tight and we punctured it a few times with a hammer tacker staple but no big staples in it
all the way around there's a lot of ways to put a membrane over a parapet cap this is one way it's
bulletproof both membranes are suffice just by themselves but I like to go a little bit beyond
always always if you're not going to flash that anyhow you can see everything is done Dan just
cleaning the roof off slippery when wet anyhow my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering
and as usual folks thank you for watching my sons and I'll see you on the next one