Hello folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano Plastering, Jason buusy doing his own home
job so Dan's helping me do this job and you read this book need to show you folks something that
I get a lot of questions asked and that is in regards to foundations and folks usually
is safe Curt got a foundation it's protruding out way past where we can't put a drip screen
say for example we can't put a drip screen like that but we have to cover the mudsill mud seals
on top of this foundation so a lot of books done some weird things over the years and one of them
is I saw a fella he jack-hammered it all all the way around the house and he says well that
work can you put your street on and I said you know that that can't work however I think you
compromise the integrity of your foundation when you did that a better way to do guys go with a Z
flashing now what you want to do is if you're going to go with the Z flashing is you measure
your highest point now this is the highest point it's about an inch some of these are half-inch and
some of them are quarter-inch but if you go with one the largest there is say like this comes out
one-inch this comes out one-inch although all the contractor here got me a one inch flange I
prefer a two inch flange but I'll show you how we deal with that - okay get that sign already
because I was waiting has nothing better to do now I'm gonna do is install this piece here now as I
install this piece here get my fastener okay look install this piece here now next thing I'm going
to do is install a drip street to counter this flashing why do we have to do that because well
rules say we do its this is a stucco screen drift screed weep screen because the water goes through
these holes here and we've source or drips out of them now if I were to put this drip screed I like
to go a half-inch myself about right there but I don't have that luxury with this half inch flange
I could pull it up just a hair like this and it gives me that luxury to put above here that way
when water comes through there it doesn't get trapped in here I'm going to I'm going to drop
it down to about right there now here to know the tip guys is boring as it may be it's kind
of crucial I'll show you something this flange for example is three and a half inches with this
45 here it's four inches so if I put this flange right here and I lift it up now I look what am
i my hole is right on the seam of this and water could go in here with the wind get driven in back
and down is that much so here's what now that's a lot of ways to do this guys you could take 10
20 different types of flash and you can even take role flashing and put that role flashing on top of
here best way to do it is by two-inch flashing where it goes up two inches here's what I did
on this side I cut some straight flash and I put it on top of the Z flashing and then I put this
one on top the drip screen on top of the straight flash which goes on top of the Z flashing why do I
do that because what's the worst case scenario it's a say window or parapet or a scupper leak
the water goes in the wall and this is saying I'm so screwed right right here okay now if we have a
great payer say a great painter might just caught this right here and now there's nowhere for the
water to come out but if you lift it up say just the hair you just have to lift it up a lot but it
should be lifted or it's not flap or flush with that now the water has a way to escape so guys
I'm going to take this great flash only because this straight flash I just happen to have on my
truck you can use a lot of lot of flashing and put this whole piece here Hey Calendar flashing which
is a dripper o-week screen most being the same thing on it and begin plot the paperwork just as
I started in a lemon and how that fellow got the right screen here went two inches up hey I just
thought I'd point that out guys because it's a much better way than chipping away your foundation
that foundations built that way for a reason you don't want to destroy integrity my name is Kirk
I'm with Kirk Giordano plastering I thank you for watching it as usual see you guys on the next one.