Howdy folks, kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano Plastering, today i want to answer an old
question a fellow, William he called me like, six months ago he said hey kirk can you show saddles
and why they're supposed to be on the house and i tell people if you have a question write it in
and when i get to that job if i remember I'll explain how we do it, so we just happened to
come across a job and we're going to do the bottom half and i he knew he had an issue up
here so he was asking me, well what do you think I should do up there? I said well you need
saddles on there, you're like i don't have a horse kidding, this is a saddle guy's, it's a metal saddle
now when they built this house they didn't have saddles so what they did is
they used tar paper probably a very thick tar paper and oh there it is right there
one layer of tar paper placed over the wood all right now that tar paper goes all the way
up and whatever caulking they had 80 years ago, they used and guess what guys caulking
on tar paper is good for about 30 maybe 40 years but what happens is all these all
these saddles like this saddle here this saddle that came off of that one and the saddle that uh
jake's working on, jake johnson one of the better plaster lathers I ever worked with I give them
the easy job, the two-story job, I'll take this difficult one right here where i can sit on, anyway
the the purpose of this saddle here if you notice is metal how long will a metal saddle last
200 years guys especially if you uh go ahead and use um not solder that's the word i'm looking
for not caulking, i see a lot of these and they are called, and i go guys you shouldn't caulk these, you
should solder them, so this one's done well it's soldered and then come off the corner up there
that jake's doing just for an example here's how you do these guys now if you have a saddle
okay on this roof right here it's done well it's a flashing over the roof
and that flashing incorporates a saddle so the the saddles incorporated now what i do is i just
now hang this weep screed, this is a weep or a drip screed. Jake up there, he's all right
you're a cage fighter man you're always looking for
exciting work that's exciting there, man you get to hang off the ledge.
all right this is a weep screed guy, now this fella here who put the flashing here the roof
flashing incorporated his saddle now what we do is i have to counter counter metal his saddle
so i countered it and i'm up to about an inch from his now his is on now what we do as a rule is
we go under it, see this is all it has a membrane here it's all membraned out but
that i use as a precautionary measure and the inspector is not going to know what's under
here so he's got to see what i'm doing so what i'm doing is i'm sliding my my two layers of 60 minute
paper here that's code now guys it used to be 10 used to be 30 not 60 minute paper i'm putting
that under here and if i see a membrane-like this like this forti-flash what we generally do
is what i already did i already attached paper under this because it's a counter flashing so
if i'm going to redo it just to show you guys how to do it this is how you do it.
you take your flashing your two-ply membrane you put it down then you take the additional membrane
for the window and you put that over it now with that over it you just tack it down guys now that
is done this wire can go over this saddle here yeah when the stucco hits here
this takes a little bit longer to dry because the paper absorbs the stucco
the metal won't absorb it a big deal? that doesn't faze us one bit so moving on now granted,
i just used the paper that i have so now i'm gonna i'm gonna wiggle my paper underneath the existing
i don't know if you could see this over here jay but for example guys all right when you're doing
tie-ins with a saddle i mean you're going to take your paper i'm just i'm just showing you
this as an example guys you're going to take that paper and you're going to slide it under you slide
it and slide it and slide it and guess what it's going to hit a nail or it's going to hit a staple
and that's as far as you can slide it's been broken out great i mean this is uh we asked
for three inches often there's times where there's not an inch of paper they got three
inches here which is good i've seen houses with no wire the only thing holding up a garage is
the stucco itself so it rots it deteriorates it's like our bodies man use it or lose it
if they had painted this house or any other house in the usa or in the world every 10 years it'll
last forever guys but the thing are these saddles here or if it didn't have a saddle what happens is
the sun hits it it bakes it it it expands the wood just a little bit you can't see it but over
50 years that expansion creates a tiny crack that tiny crack when it rains water gets in it
swells the wood the wood expands thus you got your crack forming and over the next 10 years that
crack that's two stories high you can never see it who's going to climb up the house and look the top
when they'd rather be at the beach no one? but that crack every winter when water when it rains the
water goes in it gets bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, until eventually, you've got some wood rot going
on and this is common this is just part of history guys it's if you don't paint it every
10 years and caulk it, you'll have to do something like this every once in a while and this is what
we do for a living so i see it all the time anyway so with a saddle that prevents it this this will
last 200 years right here and what we do is we fish our paper in here on the paper here
continue the paper here and go all the way up and we take our new paper again we fish it underneath
this generally what i'll do is i'll show you guys a little tip i'll i'll pull out the wire like this
and as i pull it out it might take the hand the hammer and just lift it just a little bit that way
i'll show you for example our paper can go under it easier you see how far that's going in all i
did guys was lift the stucco just a fraction of a hair because that's all that's necessary now our
new paper goes in we kind of fish it up there and then we put caulking here i'll tell you too guys
what's really important is you use a good caulking um us as contractors i mean i've been shopping at
the plastering material yards for 40 years why because the plaster in material yards used to
sell and they still do they'd sell a sika-flex polyurethane 1a what is that that is an adhesive
caulking, it adheres to everything and it's a Sealant, so it's sealed so when i put my new paper
come around here like right here underneath this sill i'm gonna put a fat bead of this
polyurethane caulking here and here and i'm going to fuse that polyurethane caulking to the wood
that will last about 70 80 years and as long as you paint it and take care of it you'll have
no problems guys all right guys last thing we'll show you is the sika-flex polyurethane caulking
1a this stuff is an adhesive sealant it sticks to everything it is crazy
nasty but it works and we're just turning the radio off because it's Friday
and it was playing talking about our penetrations caulking around our penetrations.
people try to put us down, caulking around our penetrations, just because we get around now you
see this nasty stuff guys if it gets all over your gloves just go all over here but this is the shiate,
it will hold three drops of this will hold two bricks together forever,
and you just do that that's sealing the paper into the stucco nothing could get in there you caulk
oh you're penetrating all your penetrations all your halls were just listening to a song
and laughing about it because it was talking about our generation anyhow we thank you guys
for watching and as usual, we'll see you guys on the next one.
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