hello everyone Kirk and Jayson here, with Kirk Giordano plastering.
Ttoday what answer question that folks sometimes ask me in regards to ledger boards a lot of ways
to do these guys this is a pretty good way why because the fellow who owns this house is an
architect contractor so notice what he did he put a heavy felt paper down here so 30 pound
felt the felt comes up to about right here then he's put his ledger board now notice - this is
pressure-treated ledger board then he Lag bolted it into the studs here's a stud Lag bolted into
the stud into the studs so it's not going anywhere there what does he do he take Ozzie flashing any
counters the ledger board that is the proper way to do it guys no seams this way and can you use a
polyurethane caulking sure can you solder these sure now my job is to figure out and I called a
message chief what are you going to do with the deck now because he can go with say two
by fours two by sixes he can go with a lot of different materials you can go a track you can
go with a half inch teak wood there's about 20 different types of wood what do I need to know
that because say for example this is a weep screed or a drip screed same thing depending on what he's
got I've got to clear it by say a half-inch why well I'll tell you why because the deck is going
to fail before this the stucco the stucco here for centuries it's not going to fail the membrane can
if it's compromised but the stucco is not so if you ever go to redo your deck then you want to
just be able to remove the old wood put some new wood on it now and plus code requires that you
go a minimum of a half inch with a weep screed this is a counter flashing over their existing
flashing so it'll be something like that so you folks before you figure out where these
weep screed you need to figure out what kind of material you're using for your decking membrane
anyway I thought I'd point that out because this guy he did a perfect example of pressure-treated
lag bolted counter flashing damn good so I like to show folks the proper way to do it that way
they don't have to call me and say Kirk how do you do this okay guys we are done with the web
screen now here's basically what you do to the next stage for our lap we put our paper over
the weep screed this one is just so that I'm covering this one because I'm showing you guys
what we're doing notice here you guys see this big gap right here this is good we should have
a gap in the plywood not touching so tight that when it expands we get hairline cracks the next
thing is I've already put this paper and it had a couple things here that we're kind of iffy so
I don't mind hitting it again twice just to prove a point okay we take our paper and we just roll it
out guys easy nothing to it rather go a little too much to not enough we take it we used the edge of
this don't cut your finger and make a straight line by using the roll as a template then next
we come and usually how you open a roll of lath is that's how it goes on meaning the curve goes
toward the wall because it is Salford what does that mean guys it means that let's see I will
put this here get it where I need it to pop one staple just uh okay five staples just to get it
where it's needed and then tack it off okay it's furred meaning that it's dimpled right here to
keep it a quarter inch away from the wall that way the stucco adheres in the back and on the
front now granted I marked the stud just to prove a point but I can tell where the studs are because
we're Lag bolted where he's Lag bolted into it so if I were to follow this what we're doing
this every six inches there it is and if you're going to use a gun guys wear glasses and what I
do is I just follow the line in the wire to staple up and what happens if you miss like I did just go
back over when I was working Union man they didn't mess around he had to go they'd listen I mean you
had to go fast working Union but what anyway guys hope that showed you folks how to do your ledger
and then how to install the paper and wire paper wires real critical there's rules to everything
anyway guys my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thank you for watching and as usual see you
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