Howdy folks, kirk and Jason here with kirk Giordano plastering. Today i want to show you guys
how to flash a window that they tore all the stucco off now, granted
this 100-year-old house. It had parapets are good for about well 70 years after about 50 they start
to get beat up by the rain and swelling and the sun. Still, if you keep a flashing cap on it,
it'll last forever anyway; this all the stucco had to be torn off here,
and that's another story, but what i'm going to show you guys is a while back, we showed how to do
a window and what i did was we took two layers of paper we put it up then we took another two layers
they're spot glued guys this says uh jumbo tech 60 minutes it doesn't. Still,
it is spot or was spot glued, so it's two sheets at once; you see those two sheets, guys anyway,
you can do two sheets here and put two more sheets and then actually you can only do two and go right
to the top. Still, where we have a big indentation here, i like to be on the safe side and so what
I'll generally use is a Straight- Flash. Now this stuff is made by i think it's
Dupont makes this stuff; they got their hand in everything, Dupont, and so they make this,
Straight-Flash and the reason i like Straight-Flash is that it is, oops,
it has these three peels in the back say it has a peel right here meaning if you peel one and if it
shreds that just means that stuff is kind of old we're using it the other day i had some stuff. It
just the whole thing comes off it just means it's old, but with the straight flash from, say Dupont,
and might as well get this out right now, guys, you're not going to find Straight-Flash
or some of Dupont's other top of the line products like Flex-Wrap at Home Depot or Lowe's.
I don't think, but you can find them at the material yards. When i say material,
the plastering material yards like say west side is the biggest in the US. If you've got a west
side building supply, you can buy everything, all the stuff we use and then some because they
cater to the professionals. We're so-called professionals uh you go to Oakland you've got
Dylan, Juvenile at the counter no not Juvenile delinquent but juvenile, these two guys know
everything, then there's Eric's, always down there too Eric's been with the company like 20
something years, go above Eric you get Tom Verretta, who buys all their supplies. His job
is to buy the supplies for the professional contractors like us. We're professionals;
don't try this at home, okay guys? What we want to do, guys is go about, say, four inches past,
and this stuff wants to stick to everything it that's why we're using it, so it wants to stick to
everything, and the idea is use your fingers and get that in there tight and get this tight up here
and how will this adhere it won't adhere to dusty surface guys what are the rules
nothing adheres to a dusty dirty grimy mossy surface nothing not even the strongest sickaflex
polyurethane uh caulking will stick to it spider webs might stick but
uh this stuff won't so once you got this done here and if as long as you go over
here a couple inches, you're good, and you go over here a couple inches you're good
So how do we get these dust-free guys? You can get it to dust-free with, i mean, i'm using acetone
and what I'll do is I'll take a rag, and I'll switch gloves. Just got my fingers;
I'll switch gloves to these right here, so cuz I don't want that all over my fingers.
Did i switch? No, but I'll put the acetone on here; you use gasoline, but you didn't hear
that from me you could use whatever you want i don't care what you use, but you've got to
wipe this, wipe it wipe it a whole bunch of times see all this fill
that's what comes off. Still, i have to wipe it anyway because when we go to tape these frames,
if i put red tape to cover this window when we do the stucco, if there's dust, dirt, or moss,
it's not going to stick, so we got to do this anyway so once you've got this Straight-Flash on
now if you look under there that is perfect under there this cannot leak so the water is going to
hit here even if we are on the other side with the southwest meaning the wind blows usually this way,
uh the water will hit here and go down here. There's a hole here it's called
a chamfer, i think, and the water is supposed to hit this drip and drip.
But if it doesn't it goes back here and goes behind the paper so we don't want that so anyhow
next thing we do now is we pull off these other two layers these other two layers come off and now
it adheres and this is pretty much bulletproof guys if you have a if you have a house that you
pulled all the stucco off and you're not sure how to get those windows perfect that's how to do it
i'll show you one last thing too guys you'll take your knife you'll cut that put a new blade
on every day i start work i put a brand new blade and sometimes if i'm using the knife a lot i'll
put a second or third new blade here's a a little tip too guys jay and dan were already here so they
they uh they went way ahead of me which is wow they got that fished way under there
i'll show you another little trick too if you really want to bulletproof them and they were
waiting for me i said leave me at least one window so i could show something about how
we do that so they left me this window here all right now you take another piece oops
you uh pull all that paper off and this you don't really have to do this guys but
i like to do it this way so i don't have to use so much of the Sikaflex polyurethane adhesive
construction sealant, that's a mouthful huh so you put this one here and you're kind of flashing the
other one okay so this one goes here now all you do is you cut this piece out boom and you
cut this bottom one out boom and now you're done. Like that then you put your other piece of paper
here, and they got this one tucked under this flash and what they did is they found
a little gap here, and they fished this under the gap, and so you put that there
then they put this one over it i mean you can't get any more bulletproof than that.
Come on now, okay, so then now what we do is we make this come on downtown like that and
just yank these two little pieces off, and we repeat that on the other side just like that,
and lastly, folks, this is if you have you tear all the stuff off a lot of people call me to say,
man, I started looking at my house, and they tore all the stucco off well
in this description I'll put a few houses where all the stucco had to be torn off
because they there's no need trying to salvage um fifty percent of the house,
and they had about eighty percent bad here, so that's what happens with parapets.
Anyway, you guys have parapet houses; climb up on the roofs and look for cracks. If you see a caulk
and your house will last a lot longer, you'd have to tear all the stucco off anyway, guys, i'm
gonna do the same thing here; push this down, push this here, and then a polyurethane caulking here.
I advise you to get a construction sealant adhesive mouthful, but that's the stuff that
works Sika-flex 1a is what i generally used for the last 40 years, so i stick with what works
anyway guys my name is kirk i'm with kirk giordano plastering we thank you, folks, for watching and
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