good morning guys kirk and Jason here with kirk Giordano plastering, today
I'll show you guys how to repair something like this belly band and below the skirt,
now you can't repair something unless you know why it broke, in the first place, so
i looked at this and i thought okay, i could see the wood here
and so that particular wood here, it's an old cedar it's two by eight sheets i make it two feet
because if it were four by fours, like sheetrock it would be way too heavy or like plywood, way too
heavy because it's that thick and it has keys in it the keys just mean when they did this a hundred
years ago it was from 1890 to 1910, but they still kept going to about 1925 because of people having
excess, this material in their yard so they had to use it all up anyhow, what's happening
here there's no weep screed and what's a weep screen a drip screed? this is a drip screed
drip or weep and a lot of people think that if you go down to the ground that's incredibly wrong.
that's not bad my house went to the ground too, it didn't bother me however that weep or drip
screed uh acts as an expansion, see when we remove all this stuff we'll place a weep the drip screed
on the mud sill right below the mud seal about an inch because when they put their sprinklers on we
don't want it to go up the water and hit that mud seal otherwise that mud sill will swell then it'll
rot then the bugs come, the termites and have a party, anyhow i'm going to start with up here now
when you're removing stucco over this uh wood here it's it's not it comes right off, really uh how
long will that stucco last on a house like this it'll last a lifetime if you paint it every 15
years a good quality paint, it'll last a lifetime so what i'm prepared to do right here i love these
little tools like this is i'm going to score this and what does that mean when i say score it like
the wood window right here or the vent there's a ventilation here it has what we call a key here so
say i remove this chunk right here then this chunk this chunk to look at what the heck is going on
i have to break this part out i'll just show you to you
enough of that filthy dusty and unless i have my mask on i don't want to do it because it releases
silica in the air that stuff is really bad for your lungs uh anyhow we're gonna break this out
we're gonna score this and score this with uh this battery-operated uh hammer
impact gun okay so when we score this right here this will just pop right off what will
i find when i open it right here i'm going to find some wood that's similar to that corner it's just
going to be keyed old cedar do i believe there's any structural damage no i don't I've torn enough
of this stuff off say to the amount for 30 of these houses in the last 40 years so i think
what i'm talking about makes sense i i doubt i'm going to find any damage here but then again you
throw in this odd detail i thought hey man what's that that's not supposed to be there this window
sill right here is supposed to have a a chamfer
where you the water comes here hits here and then drops this piece of wood it should not be flush so
what i think is going to happen under here to what actually is i don't know because of this
weird thing uh somebody had an idea and they went with it let's see i haven't started any of the uh
the breakout but look i'm gonna just see what the heck this looks like because you
can see this guys you see listen to the sound that's loose stucco listen here that's hard
all you have to do, and you can see that vibrating now I can see a bunch of spiders in there
ah let me I'm gonna pull off a chunk just to give you guys an idea what the heck
we got here now granted I haven't scored underneath
okay now that piece right there gives me an idea what the heck we got going on
water's been going in here for about oh 80 years so what i'm going to do is
after i remove everything we'll we'll show you what it looks like and this this piece right here
oh that's just beautiful that's in great condition so once i remove all this i expect to find this
how do you clean it you can clean it with a pressure washer clean it with a garden hose
you can clean it a lot of different ways i'll cross that bridge when i get to it and lastly
again like i'm going to place that weep screed and then i have some mesh wire
i can if i put a piece of metal here stucco won't adhere to metal so i have to put some wire over
will i wire this whole thing i don't know yet until i remove it i can't make that
decision i have to see what's here but i expect everything to be pretty like this
but again like i point out to that thing right there i don't know what they had in
mind when they did that or why but we'll find out soon enough anyhow i'll show you how to
put it all back together when we get to that stage okay guys we are done with explorations
i'll tell you something what we found was um the studs are pretty good they're in good condition
some of these were a little bad uh for 110 years old i think they lasted pretty well so what we do
is we took our new paper come all the way down here you could see it all the way here we cover
the mud still now what i originally bid was a piece like right here and then i came back
yesterday and he says well you know i was talking with another guy and he said that eventually
should all come off and i said dude that was me i told you that i said i can do the little piece
right here for a certain amount of dollars but if i were you when you go to sell this house you're
going to get a termite pest report they're going to say all this got to go then you've
got to add that to the price of the house when selling it and negotiate it if i were you i'd
take the hit right now and redo everything i said i know what i'm doing i've been doing this forever
so keep in mind somebody might watch this and say gee kirk how come you didn't put all new brand new
wood how come you didn't put all new uh shear wall or plywood a lot of folks don't have that
kind of money i mean as is i was telling them to do this and they only wanted to do this little
piece i do what i'm told but i tell everybody what my opinion is on their house because i've
been doing this forever okay now that let me see here i'm going to show you guys something else
there was some wood that was beat up if it's beat up i don't want to reinstall it because
that's just dumb not a good idea don't do that so after i get my other pieces fished in then here's
what i do we put a drip screed it's going to go on top of the on top of the wood right here now this
will accept another coat of stucco like this it'll accept two coats that's what these are these are
keys the stucco keys into these and that's how it adheres but stucco is not going to key on to metal
so this 3.4 mesh the stucco wire it's technically 3.4 and it goes one way not
it doesn't go it has a front and a back anyhow we put it like so we put it like this that way
the stucco will adhere to this also and then the stucco this is watertight now
can i add more paper over this sure you can guys but that's another story the important thing is to
take the paper and waterproof it because back when they had this stuff they had that heavy
asphalt paper that they used and some of it was in pretty good condition but uh to be on the safe
side we redid it and guys when you when you do it you look at all the wood if the wood is good
leave it alone the stucco there we took pneumatic hammers we took all kinds we could not get that
off that's okay we caulk around it and we just go around it here where i took i robbed peter to pay
paul and took some of the good pieces to put down here i'm going to put corners here my corners are
going to match up to this corner here and they're going to be the same depth and i'm going to wire
this right here after we finish the wood then we'll show you how we plaster it craze that's so
weird because it rained and now it's 102. uh jay found out on his phone what we're doing guys is
i had to build these up and be creative or go to the store and buy some new
laughs would last because i needed to be out of certain parts the fact that i got to go
four inches thick here is that a big deal in 100 degree weather that is so weird weird weather no
that's not a big deal because we're using a hot mud what does that mean guys hot mud means it has
accelerators in it i've done a job where we went around the whole house four times i put on six
inches of this stuff any of you guys want to see that uh i could put that video in the link but
it was faster for me to use skill rather than go to a material yard to put a piece of wood
here to bring it out to the correct depth so i'm going with my strengths my strengths are
application plus i don't want to leave here and search for a darn piece of wood just as a template
so what we have done is we put mesh here we've got mesh here we've caulked the window
we put a weep on the bottom we've aligned that corner align these corners i put weld crete
on here it's a bonding agent for uh exteriors and i'm just gonna recoat that guys if stucco
won't come off in an area and you force it what will happen is you will destroy the shear wall
I wasn't sure if you guys could hear me. So I got a weed eater,
a blower guy right next to me trying to drown me out anyway, um.
There's a lot of things that we're doing that
can't be explained. So I'll miss a lot of things. Guys like this mud here, um.
it's got to be a certain thickness, a certain set to apply it, I'm going to do okay see that's done
there I'm doing the big part first because if I hit it on this wood, that's what it's going
to suck the moisture right out of here and with the temperature we have today we don't want that
it is too hot to put this on the wood right now, so it's the best thing to do is get this
ah fill it up to fill it up ah
pull this stuff around because this is satin I get it all right that's setting
and see for the mud to adhere like this, it's got to be rich, and it's got to have
you see how high it's getting within five minutes that means it's setting
I like it when it's setting this fast it can go that depth, and the new mud is a little soupier.
Oh yeah, okay, now I'm just going to show you a little bit more because jay is going to plaster
with me, and he's on the camera right now. Uh, so over here now, one thing I'm going over metal
here. This will take a while to dry, but as soon as I touch this wood, it's going to suck right in.
see i'm going over the wood now the wood
we sprayed it cleaned it with water and within 10 minutes it's stuff dried it's so hot
anyway we're going to go ahead and jay's gonna help me spread this out
when we're done we'll show you how we match this finish too all right guys it is the end of the day
now i was gonna show you guys how we float this but we're doing several things on this job so we
floated it we brought the sand out the aggregate that's what this is for you you bring the sand out
but since that's done now i left nothing but the simple part to show you a dash finish because this
right here that's a dash finish guys and so here's how you dash like the old saying the dash of salt
you you take some soup and watch my hand see i i'm taking this brush i'm turning as i dash you'll i
don't know if you care to see that but that's how i do it but there's a lot of ways to dash
now i i got super mud there and i'll do a zoom in in a second but you see we throw it on
i turn it turn it because the mud brush the dash brush has got mud so we we're
kind of flinging it around and this texture here cannot be achieved unless
you dash it and that's that's what this brush is and that's why we make this soupy mud right here
that kind of soup that's uh you take the same mud that you're using you add a ton of water
to it and because i don't want to clean this then again i'm gonna go straight up
Hey, what before I dashed it, and I just closed my eyes and threw it
everywhere and then took a water hose and cleaned clean that vent.
one more
so you can see and i'll show you another little check in case you guys are dashing and you say man
how the heck does he get it where it's uniform and there's not a whole bunch of blobs you see that
little blob right there a little simple technique to get rid of that you there well this couple
i mean i guess as analysts like how to do this wall here i can do this about 20 different ways
what's the easiest way easiest way was take it off put the paper on it just cover everything
don't take all the wood off that's the easy way we didn't do it that way we did it the right way
we took all the wood off then put the membrane in the back then put the wood back on
but a lot of people will just say heck with all that it's too much work
and re-paper over everything and that's a good temporary fix but in the long run it's not uh
but anyway see now now that i got a dash i could take the dash brush and see where these
these high spots are we call them mountains okay let's get rid of some of the mountains
dashboard should do it uh that'll do it the float will do it i just tap it with the float
and any big uh goobers slobbers you can just get right off because
when this is painted you want it to match this anyway watch this magic show lift up a bucket
presto a plan anyway my name is kirk jason on the camera and it's very hot today like
over 100 we thank you guys for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one
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