Hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm gonna show you folks is
how we get this ready for a lath and inspection number one but we've also worked it out where
either the electrician or the contractor the general contractor on this specific job is my
buddy his name is Rowland Smith his phone number is five three one five six nine nine area code
510 Oakland fella anyway what we're going to do here is he's got this and I get this
year after year after year folks call me all the times to Kirk can i coordinated with you
and the electrician or whoever where you the city wants to see paper behind this box here
guys you can't go flush and put a little ring around here I've seen that 20 times you can't
do it so what we're going to do is we're going to slide some paper under here now a vertical
tie and I want a finish there's six inches we want to go about a foot same here I want to go
about a foot and what I do is I look for the pipe okay I can see where the first pipe is of
wires and I can see where the rest of them are this actually going to take me about Oh 15 20
minutes but I'll give you an idea what the heck we're talking about then we're going to wire it
and we're going to finish lath and everything but I'm actually going to put the cement back
here and I'll show you how to put the cement back here and feather out this scratch coat
because who knows how long it'll be before we come back here to do the actual Schmidt work it
could be a week could be a month things tend to happen anyway what I'll do is I'll go here now I
measure my the paper I need again I want about a foot on my vertical overlaps if I can get it
actually I can get it and because I'm going to be fish in this paper behind these studs
and here I already know because I've done this a few times that I need to split this paper in half
hey you probably why I do that and I'll show you why now what I'll do is I'll look at that pipe
again and I see it it's about right here so okay I want to get my foot and a half overlap here the
waterproofing is why we're here guys we want this water tight so it's a kind of time consuming stuff
but it's definitely necessary to fish fish this in here so that we can get a good tire this is
not even the actual cement work but we'll get to that stage now I'm looking for my rip and I want
my rip to go there it is just perfect all right now I've got I've got a good enough overlap here
now I'm going to tack this side up and make sure I'm okay I'm unsecured in there I got a couple
extra feet over here a couple extra feet is better than short guys then we just feel our way here we
feel it what we want is we got our mud seal about right up here then we break down so that the paper
and the craft paper underneath here passes that mud ship we don't want water going here and you
can feel that you can feel it but the mud seal is not what this video is about this video is
about water proofing those pipes okay now that we have to get in here that pipe there tuck in
as nice as we can get it by the way guys turn the electricity off you better believe we have
the electricity turned off and what I'll do is now fish little pieces in and let's see I'll look back
there and see the wires and okay I'm going to cut out for the wires wires are going to go in this
slot and I'm going to do this back and forth back and forth and to I I counter that those wires so
this one's going to go on top like this going to slide right down over the wires we do that
a number of times anyway for the sake of not this going and show you something different when we get
to that point the scratch code you get an idea how to waterproof this remember guys we've got
to overlap this a foot in both directions and dish people fish little pieces of paper up and around
those wires that's the whole idea why we're doing this a watertight everything oh right guys we've
got we fish stuff in there for about 15 minutes Jason and myself now what I'll generally do is I'm
going to cut these paper and I'll slide one more on top because I want to get my tie ins really
really nice okay so now this one is covering the wire and now it gives me something a little bit
more solid to tie in it's like a jigsaw puzzle guys the idea is to get that in there and then
now we're going to do the wire we're going to fish the wire in the same particular way out we'll just
show you that when we're doing the cement work and prior to doing the cement work I'm going to
take a tube of Sikaflex polyurethane caulking and and and cover these wires here I'm going to put
little fat pancakes around the wire because we really want to seal that to this paper and the
poly urethanes and they do a great job doing that okay guys Jason helped me put this piece
here another tip and trust me I've been doing this for years so I know this is kind of technical but
what I like to do is one solid piece of wire if I can the reason is if I fished a whole bunch of
pieces behind here remember this is very fragile this top here you bend it too much you're going to
crack this like cast iron so now I slit it down the middle one solid piece down here the wire
does have a which way it goes on proper it's on proper right now it's keyed and we mark the studs
so when we cover this we know where they are we've got to be in the study so what I'll generally do
now is we'll put it all back together then we're going to take this wire tack it down I'm about to
hook up my noisy compressor in a minute and we'll staple it all off then we're going to
mix up the cement to go in back of this before I put the submit on a course I will have those
wires cocked and again I said polyurethane talking earlier there's so many different branching folks
choose which which ones you like but in about 10 15 minutes we're going to staple this off with a
big gun go into the studs every six inches fellows then we'll show you how we do this to network okay
guys we are hustling right now my buddy Roland he's going to fasten this in a minute what I've
got is hot mud here and this particular trial I'm using it is designed for a swimming pool but I'm
using it for this because it's so big I can get way behind here and hit those wires we're using
a really hot mud which it's already getting stiff so when I am finished with getting the mud behind
here and it's only going to go as far behind guys when I hit those wires it it just takes some real
skill to get in there right now we're a little bit too close so we're going to pull this back
a little bit more like so Oh a little bit more I need a little bit more room to get back there
I'm hustling because they put some accelerators in here we got a lot of cellar aiders this is
lumini and right before it hardens completely it's going to harden in 10 10 minutes my buddy
Roland's going to put a couple he gets the fun job of straightening this out making sure it's
straight and true in all the directions we're going to give them a hand and tack it on there
or screw it on there Roland's pulling this apart because man I have no clue as far as electricity
I'm just helping them straighten it pulling the meter to get the busbars to be non-live
we don't want live not what we're doing the executed in the meantime anyway we've got his
handy-dandy level we're going to put some screws in here and next time you see us we'll show you
the part that I really want to show you as far as the scratch all right guys rolling went ahead and
fastened this down and what that did is it sucked this box in true and plumb now all the cement back
there is solid the caulking is mixed in with it and what I do is I don't know when we're coming
back guys sometimes it could be weeks sometimes months but anyhow I put my key right here and
now I have my scratch coat so when I come back I put my scratch then the brown and I feather into
this I already have my mechanical bond all the way around it same thing over here we're eight
inches around it the top is not all I'm fine with what's behind the box so basically we're tied in
so that when we place our next finish over we get no hairline cracking around it those of you put
things rolling probably does a lot of little stuff he does complete homes additions again
rolling is located here in Oakland oh so we're in Alameda anyhow folks if you likes little tips
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