hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk giordano plastering, today I'm going to show you something
about counter flashing what's a Z flashing well that's right here see that it's a Z you got a
bottom drip and the face and where it comes up it goes on a foundation like so generally I place a
weep screed here if the plywood is level with the foundation over here we got some issues I
got here a little while ago that's - dude where's your drip or Y or Z flashing so they went out they
went out and picked this up right here now one of the things was we have an inch and a half
right here and some areas we have a an inch what you want to do is first thing I what I was doing
while he was going to get this Z flashing here for this protruding foundation its existing so
sometimes what you look at I'm just taking these little clinkers off the top here why do we clean
the top so that this Z flashing will set as level as possible then what we do is we'll take the Z
flashing here because we got to protect this mud seal if I were to put on a drip screen directly on
top of this mud seal which we can do we'd have to put at least seven tubes of a polyurethane
caulking here and seated in that that's not the way we want to do it the way we want to do it
is we put a z-plasty knot and the areas where it doesn't protrude out the full inch and a half no
worries I'll show you what I'm talking about okay I'm gonna overlap our existing one here
now you guys see me doing this and you're using a gun or some safety glasses okay just for the
sake of I'm gonna pop a staple there and I'll pop one over here and lastly over here right by you
Jay boom okay now while we have this Z flashing here what I was telling the homeowners is we've
got to come out to the furthest right here we're inch-and-a-half right here we're about an inch
and over there we're even less but in other areas that comes out inch and a half so why
do we go with Incheon and a half on everything because now it looks uniform we're gonna place
a drip screen or weep screed directly on this I'm going to get it in a minute and show you what I'm
talking about there's always going to be somebody who says hey what do you mean with a drip screen
okay so now that we got this on it what we're going to do is we're going to take our paper
which I temporarily tacked up here and come down now we're going to cover that like so and then
that's how you watertight it but getting back to this this piece here here's what I was telling
the homeowner because this is not perfect here and if somebody steps on it what it's going to
do is going to bend so you take some caulking or some big stretch or some sealing foam expanding
foam you spray it under here the next day you come back take a knife a trowel a utility knife putty
knife and just cut it off and that gives us a lot of stability here so if you step on it it won't
bend it I'm gonna grab a web screen real quick all right guys what we do is I put a 45 here I
also cut this weep screed here it's a weap screen or a drip you call it either way you take it I'm
going to go underneath these steps I'm going to go on top of this Zee flashing do I really need
to use this not really but what if the inspector doesn't know you can call me back on it and for
the 50 bucks it takes me for the metal I don't want to come back a second time so what I'm doing
is I'm going to counter theirs and what I like to do is just leave an eighth of an inch under
why because if you leave an eighth of an inch under the water can drip out if I go flat on
top of here that's okay too but what we're doing is a three coach system we're going to be doing
the scratch coat the brown coat and the color coat now they're design once this is once that
metals on this paper covers this right here and if you have something like I just just cut it out
on the bottom find your metal you cut it out then wire goes on top of here this system here this is
a flashing system it's a Zee flashing where the weeps Crete or a drip screen on top to counter
each other I give it a eighth of an inch so water if it does go through this stucco drips out
harmlessly onto this the flashing and it doesn't compromise the mud seal that's really important
thing guys anyway my name is Kirk Jason on the camera we thought since we're here we're doing
this already we'd show you just a small portion of how to do it right guys so later down the road
you're not sorry my name is Kirk J on the camera again we thank you for watching and we'll see
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