Hello folks, Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering.
today what I'm going to do is show you some laughing tips on arch radius windows okay
the contractor it's of Kirk you're going to put seven eighths on these outer and inner corners
aren't you because he ordered some molds to go around these and I said well technically no we're
going to put seven eighths here but on the Sunnah part where it bends the wire dictates how full i
go and usually it's about half inch and he says well gee I thought it was seven eight I already
ordered these things I said well we could build up by hand i'm going to show you what's necessary
in order to get some insect windows he says well how are you going to get all this detail in here
with the wire I'm sure some this is called arch aid and it's because you can make arches with it
now there are a few other types of wire that I'm going to use right here for the corners now what I
have here is this is called half flange because one half is full length and the other half is
flange now for example if I were to bend this half flange and just do like so and I can use a lot of
different wires here but this is the simplest so I'm going with whatever is the simplest and
most effective saves me time if I put this this way with the flange sticking out now that flange
is going to be in my way when I take my radius but if i put the flange this way now that flange is on
the inside i can take my radius here and come with my full bullnose i'll give you an idea i'll put up
a piece i already put a piece over here but for explanation purposes I've been a piece here and
I kind of just made a makeshift bend at the top for that arch now what I'll do is I'll get this
guy in here get it in there in this particular way and that arch here I'm going to use my just
a hammer tacker guys I can use the big gun to do this but at the same time I can be I can show more
effectively with the little hand stapler okay well what we want to do is we want to get this in here
so that our stuck okies in here and it won't crack a lot of ways to do this guy's I can do it about
10 different ways myself but this is the fastest most effective way to do it least amount of
hairline cracks all right now that I got my corner here now I can build this corner up and we're
going to take it on a radius now i'm going to put because we're bullnose and all this bull nose just
means it's it's instead of straight corners it's bull nose half round I'm going to put a half round
corner here now I can squeeze this on because our corners on this particular project are going to be
wavy this corner is not going to be perfect like this the finish we're doing is going to have humps
bumps and so I'm going to make this I'm going to add some extra stucco to give this that finish but
what I'm just generally doing is reinforced in this corner and last thing I'll do is show you
folks why we can't really get 7/8 on a soffit we can I can but I've been in the trade forever okay
we figure out what we want to get our wire that's about it right there take my handy dandy snip cut
this all right now that i got this cutting by the way guys you have homeowners who watch some of the
things we do we'll never have to do this because this is professional usually you'll have to have
this kind of arch windows and inset arch wind windows at the same time so that's that's kind
of rare for a homeowner to do something like this they're usually hire somebody what I like to do is
kind of Bend this and in place give it the arch in itself before I actually put it on okay that's got
a pretty good bend and then I'll I'll put it here and the idea guys is this is going to achieve or
get seven eighths of an inch now this is dictated by the bend the arch aid usually we can put a half
inch here can I build this up another half inch with mud me absolutely and we will because the
fellow already ordered the the molds to come out seven eighths of an inch and when I told them well
we're going half inches somewhat panic and I said don't sweat it brother we can do this we can just
give you a little bit extra anyway that's all it takes guys when I get the big gun meaning my big
staple gun pneumatic gun tattoo I'm just going to staple all that off and we'll plaster it and at
the end of the job I'm going to leave about four inches we're going to put our molds here and I'm
leave about four inches then he's going to come and he's going to attach these styrofoam molds
here and they're just going to go around there he was talking concrete at first and I said man
that's a lot of weight when styrofoam is is a lot better up here were three stories high if it were
me I'd go styrofoam that way you're not worried about attaching all that concrete and having it
fall off on somebody my personal opinion anyway guys that is how you do an inset arch window
and the waterproofing is self-explanatory we do that all the time my name is kirk I am with Kirk
Giordano plastering as usual we thank you folks for watching I'll see you guys on the next one.