Howdy, folks, kirk and Jason are here with kirk Giordano plastering today, I want to show you guys
some alternatives to breaking out the foundation because we have to put a weep screed on guys with
new stucco. After all, we have to put a weep screed on these are weeping screeds. They're
two different types of weep screed. It's a drip or a weep screed designed for new construction
since 1985 or 80. now if you look at the design these go around the perimeter on the mud sill
now this one here is we call it a 36 this is a 66 but they are designed to protect the mud sill the
mud seal is right here and these generally go on below the mud seal however if we try to put it on
here you see how that rocks this one rocks okay we can't do that now in order to keep this uh
cosmetically true you see over there you have no weep screed and over here there's no weep screed
so if i put a weep screed here and it's at a cockeyed angle it looks ridiculous so what i
generally tell folks and i i say this for a reason you could break out your stucco with a a chisel
and try to break it out well this fella tried that the other side went through the concrete
why because the mechanical bond was put on so well that you can't do that nor can you take a hammer
and chisel and i got concrete chisels you put here and just try to break it off it won't work
it won't work because when they did the stucco foundation they did the house immediately
afterwards which meant they hosed down or hydrated the foundation then they put the new stucco
on it that is a true mechanical bond so a true mechanical bond means the stucco was brand new
this or the concrete was brand new the foundation the stucco was placed on it and because the stuck
was wet and the concrete or the foundation was hydrated moist wet with a garden hose the two
sucked up and they became one so i've seen many guys where i come to do the job and i say what
happened to your foundation the foundation all the way through that thick a foundation they
broke it all the way through trying to achieve something so that they could place a weep screed
okay here's an alternative guys you find an actual z flashing and then you cover the z flashing up
so say for example the z flashing would go here now i have a whole bunch of these on the truck
i have one that that's about the right width but now this would look ridiculous
when they go to saw the house people say hey man what the hell what what happened right here why
is there this big lip so we can't use this one here however you can do something like this now
say this this weep scream well this is uh this is for roofing now you put this guy on here
and then once it's all stapled off you could bend this down uh i'll show you over here too
get away from that loud compressor now what i did was i cut all these weep screeds
in half so i wouldn't to show you in great detail exactly what they do so
this this right here guys is what we want say for example this will go right here now
now the weep or the mud sill is protected i'm putting a lot of staples to prove a point
okay now when i'm done here i can take my hammer and just bend this i could bend it down and when i
come to do the cement work after the inspection of the paper and wire it's called the lath inspection
we just bend this down and then i put a little bit of weld creed a bonding agent on it and i
stucco the whole thing and yes now the mud seal is protected we have to protect the mud seal so now
it's protected with metal and then it looks like the rest of the house the whole house is done like
this there are rules and exceptions to everything this is a an exception to the rule where you don't
have to destroy your whole foundation to try to prove a point and put a weep screed on it
uh besides if you did that anyway you'd still have to cover it because it would look ridiculous and
so where cosmetics and codes blend in it takes a little bit of common sense and you have to you
watch these videos what we do we'll tell you the right way to do it and when to compromise
the so-called code for a cosmetic and you don't compromise it by destroying the longevity or the
reality of what you're doing you just keep up with the cosmetics of the house so when later on people
look at it they don't say man what happened here so anyway we're this is just a video a short video
of do not destroy your concrete foundation and i have seen guys where sometimes it'll break right
off that never achieved a true mechanical bond in this instant we have a true mechanical bond
because of the other sides it was just blown all the way through so guys don't do that
figure out a counter measure it's a counter flashing to a counter flashing it's a simple
thing all right guys now you see that's what it looks like uh when i come back to do the stucco
i'm just going to bury it here's something here's a question for you guys who watch what we do
now for latin we always use a polyurethane uh sealant caulking it's sealed it fuses the paper
to the frame or anything the other day i was going through about a case of this sickaflex head and
i'm just i'm going to town man i'm going real fast and i'm i'm cutting them and putting them
together and the homeowner was watching me and he says i didn't know that every caulking gun has
a poker meaning this this guy here this every gun has this poker and a place to
cut it where you put the tip in here and you just squeeze it one time and it cuts it
this is how funny it was me jason even my brother lou
we started laughing and he says no i'm serious i thought no you're not even okay for example
i got a question for you guys how many of you did not know this because i thought everybody
knew this you put your caulking your well this one is beat up but you put it in the hole here
you squeeze it that cuts it and some of the cheaper guns have a little bitty piece right here
now this little bitty piece it's still a poker for the average tube but it won't work for sica
flex uh because the tube is too long and a 16 penny won't work either so what we use is
uh i'll if i use this then i've got to use 10 tubes that's what your glove is going to look
like and you can't clean this off of the glove it's just you can't touch it but what i'll do
is i'll put a lot of caulking use my finger and just fuse it to it and just wipe it somewhere
like that the question is how many of you guys didn't know that because jay and i were talking
about and i said everybody knows that and he says you'll be surprised some of these guys
who just get started they don't know that and i'm i'm wondering how many don't know it anyway
that's what it looks like it's going to be covered up all's good no harm to the foundation they still
achieve the same thing my name is kirk jason on the camera we thank you guys for watching and
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