hi guys Kirk here with Kirk Giordano giordano plastering, today what I want to show you folks
is we're doing a small patch I want to show you two interesting facts about this contractor said
gee Kirk what are you gonna do here you're going to put a drip screen or a weap same thing drift
will weep screen I said well technically I'm not gonna put anything here because none of the
remaining building has it now granted the building is about 80 years old and drip screens are about
35 40 years old but if I put a drip screen here the rest of the building is gonna look awkward
because it has no drip screens so important thing for you guys if you've got a situation
like this and 8 out of 10 of our jobs are like this because drip screens again word code until
I believe 75 and most of us weren't even using them in 1980 I started like 78 or so and hardly
a few people were using them but anyway a weep screed here would look quite ridiculous unless
the rest of the house had it so important thing to remember is we're going to go ahead and we've got
to cover this mud sill here's the 1 by 8 then the mud sill is here now we don't want that mud so to
get wet so I'm gonna put a piece of paper covering that and so what I do is I just say for example
I'm gonna put this one right here now our wire our wire is going to go here and come down onto
the foundation so the wire is gonna hold this paper right here because obviously I can't get
any staples or nails through this concrete so the wire will hold this and of course this foundation
here has been scratched with the wire brush to remove all the dust otherwise the stucco would
only adhere to that for a day or two and then it would pop off when we get to something like this
where where the the wire shot there is no wire we we find it just remains of wire how do we do that
well what I'll do is I'll fish paper I'll get it like this and I'll I'll fish it in here like so I
mean and you just go back and forth until you could find something I'm gonna place my paper
down here and then I'm gonna counter that paper and go under this as best as I can and you might
say well gee whiz because I thought I think this - how's the paper in decent condition when there's
no wire left they probably used a wire that wasn't galvanized and way back when I was a kid I used to
work for a galvanized company take metal you put it into the galvanized you pull it out and that's
what weatherproof said a little bit anyway the wire they used here probably wasn't galvanized so
it rusted and I see that often I've seen garages where there's no studs there's no paper there's no
wire it's all rotted out the only thing holding up a stucco garage is say the stucco in fact there's
one close by here we might show that to you but anyhow guys it's not practical either somebody's
gonna email me and say why don't you tear all this stuff off that's not my call I informed
the folks AG if you want remove all the stucco I can guarantee it won't leak they almost run me
out of town when I say things like that they they said no we don't want to do that so what I'm going
to do here guys is I'm gonna continue with what I started first what I'll do is is put my paper in
here and I do have a channel for this window sill here so I'll go like so tack this in gonna get we
get started here tack it in on a busy street but I'm wearing a mic so hopefully I don't get too
drowned out now here's after we do this we counter it by going underneath here and you just I've been
here now for about 20 minutes just getting this to where I can use it we put that there take other
pieces and the idea is to keep fishing this under there you fish it under there fish it under there
until you've covered all of this and it does take time and it's going to take me another ten minutes
to fish pieces under here but that's what we got to do and afterwards we're gonna take our wire
come all the way to the base here and that'll hold the paper down as we get to that stage I'll show
it to you alright guys it took me about 15 20 minutes to get that in there what you do is you
take your hammer and just pry it just a little bit these sticks right here you get your hammer
pride a little bit these guys get rid of them just pop them right off because we need to take
our new paper under that existing paper so what I've done is I cut a whole bunch of strips like
this because I start from the bottom and I work my way up there's two layers right here and I pried
it up just enough to get get that under there you tack it down you always want to overlap these so
I'm gonna put this one over that because I didn't write there in here you're gonna again you just
want to lift this up gently lift it up gently and yeah this is really some time-consuming stuff some
might call it a real drag but it's got to be done just like this two layers and you go underneath it
here I always double up my corners I'll take this right here and just fish it under here gently I'm
gonna bend this corner around here and as soon as I get this we're gonna start to wiring of it and
you just you go back and forth back and forth see how that slide under there I'm getting lucky right
now because that's just slide right under there so I slid its all the way under here now we just
tack that down and we have the best waterproofing we could expect from this old deteriorated stucco
then we're just gonna wire this and we're gonna wire right here there is no key there's no wire
left so anyhow when we get to the wire stage will show that to you also all right guys we're at a
stage here now where the wires on I'm gonna put this corner aid on here in this corner aid we'll
hold these two corners we never want to bend around because that causes leaks this corner
is going to go on here if I start this gun up the compressors next to me it will drown me out but
I'm going to staple off every six inches into the sky and lastly I take these little bitty quarter
inch concrete nails I take this magnet and I put it like that and take a little sledgehammer and
tap the bottoms in and see that thumb there how black it is that is not a marker that is me not
using my magnet so what we do is see all this loose stuff we take it we find an area and we
just give it a couple taps hey how about that it worked anyhow that's what we do we after we get
all the dust off the foundation because the next time we come here we're gonna plaster this I'm
going to hit this actually to with weld Crete give it a little bit more of a bite but are we gonna
get a hairline crack here absolutely guys because we have no wire to tie in if the wires gone it's
gone anyhow guys my name is Kirk I'm with Kirk giordano plastering and Jason on the camera,
Dan messing around here somewhere anyway as usual folks we'll see you guys on the next one.