hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today I want to
talk about something that I rarely talk about because it's not our job and that is
plastering stucco rain mud rings they're the same thing all being the same anyhow what we're
doing here is we're getting ready to stucco this and the fella didn't have the rings on
it so I called him and said hey and turns out he says well I'll do it next week and I said
well hardware store right around the corner so I wouldn't pick these up generally I don't
I keep a lot of stuff on this monster truck of mine right here but sometimes I even have these
but this time I didn't anyway let me point out something guys what happens now we didn't lap
this if we did I would have caulk this edge right here but anyway a passed inspection what happens
if I build an inch right here and then they put the light on I'll tell you what'll happen the
stucco is cement Tisha's it's porous water will go straight through that and it could
last 10 15 years or the water can go in there and short these wires out cause a fire things
like that usually uh the majority of times I have this issue is with an electrical box say somebody
have electrical box down below and it's in set and I always have to tell the people man you
got to pull that thing out 7/8 of an inch or to make it easy for you guys 1/8 one solid inch just
to remember a solid edge I've heard this a lot of times everybody says gee whiz well those mud
ring stucco rings plastering whatever you want to call them they're usually called plastering
they're half-inch they say well what do we do well give you an idea of a couple things you
can do guys number one is if you put it over the wire and this wire here is just sticking out a
little bit too much if you put it over the wire the wire will floor it out another quarter inch
and it'll bring it out to about an inch that's fine if you don't have the wire and it's just on
paper fir it out with some strips now what I'm gonna do here is to put this guy on I'm just
gonna screw it into the holes that it should be in yeah bear with me here let's see alright
screw that guy in right here and screw this one in and I'll tell you one of the most important
things with doing this now a light usually will have the bolts on the side not up and
down because you can't get on the top now notice with this big space here it's out a
solid inch now here's what you got to do guys you got to put a good caulking and embed this
this particular caulking here is a sealant as well as an excellent waterproof caulking now
what I want to do is I want to caulk around the whole perimeter of this plastering because we
don't want any water getting in here last time I had this issue was about Christmas and I was
telling good friend of mine Larry bellman that's a buddy you got a lot of electrical outlets and
they're all inset and what's going to happen is water when it rains all these electrical outlets
are going to get wet and he says well I'll call my electrician electrician come stop by the job
young guy about 30 and he says oh well we do that because we never know what the plasters want and
I said we want technically an inch and he says well that'll work what I have and I said note
won't and anyway we got into a little discussion and Larry says don't worry Kirk your father's on
his way father came they kind of repeated what the son said later I just walked away and I said
Larry you know who will be called back if we get electrical short you and me both and we'll both
get in trouble we'll have to fix this so the next day I came out and Larry had all the rings on it
and they were all caught just like this guys we need an inch I remember Larry telling me man Kirk
I hope you never give me that look you gave those guys and I said what look was that is it man you
are so pissed and I thought well you tell one person something then you tell the father and
they both say the same thing reminded me of the old saying the apple doesn't fall too far from
the tree anyhow this is the proper way to do it guys now that's not the prettiest thing in the
world but guess what when they put their light on here and the stucco is on here and it's yeah
it's gonna be painted and some folks might have the argument well it's gonna get painted so it
won't leak this is the way you do it especially when you go with outlets around the bottom of the
house anyhow guys thought I'd point that out since we're in this situation right here all
right guys I'll show you what we wet this mud ring supposed to look like when the stucco is
done now you see the stucco comes flush to that and then the light goes on these bulbs right
there that's what it's supposed to look like guys anyhow I wasn't gonna I was gonna end that video
back showing that but I thought I'd show you the whole thing if you really want to see how this
finish is done we've shown this a lot of times in other videos click ride here and Jay and I did a a
couple walls showing how to achieve this finish anyway my name's Kirk I'm with Kirk Giordano
plastering nothing but the fun stuff clean up now as usual I'll see you guys on the next one
you