Howdy folks Kirk here with Kirk Giordano plastering, my son and I what we're gonna
do today is fix this wall here fella we're in a condominiums guy backed up and hit it and I
was out here the other day looking at it and I said you know I know somebody in this complex I
haven't seen him in like 20 years fellow named left and he says work said lucky I say works at
Safeway close enough and he had said got a wife named Edie I thought I thought it was easy all
these years and we just got here and come here ee-vie let me we go back we go back about 20
years I haven't just pulled up it's like 80 right anyhow let me get back to this but I wanted to say
hello to her because we a lot of my friends who watch us we're gonna say you haven't seen her
in 20 years anyhow what this is is uh okay hit this and he asked me the fellow who hit it what
Kirk I've seen some of your stuff can't you just nail this in and plaster right over it and I said
absolutely I could but will I no no no that's not how we do things because it's like if I did that
we'd have no waterproofing barriers like being in a race and you think you're not gonna win and you
just quit I always say give it your best shot I have nothing to be ashamed of because I told him
it'd have no waterproofing capabilities if we just spread over it and he says well didn't you
say you were going to go to this stud here and you can't guarantee it and I thought yeah but
I'm at least like in that race I'm gonna give it my best shot I'm not going to give up if we take
it to the stud here we could put all new paper here to here and it's better than just putting
cement over here and having paint as a band-aid so what we have here is line wire they put I'll
show you something I don't know if your camera can see this Jay because it the lights gonna
just see the wire okay you can can you see this okay this is line wire they put nails here and
then they they wrap it and wrap each one and it stops the paper from coming back so they don't
use too much cement well when I was looking at it I told the fella I said well you know they're
their walls it's the membrane is compromised anyway it has nothing to do with you hitting
the wall or anything it's just an old wall and he said well I did him a favor said no not really the
impact of the car hitting this regardless if this wasn't broke would have broken it up would have
broke the stucco so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna slide some paper under here take it down
and the fella here's one more thing out here okay Jay is Jay's getting ready to remove this
and we're gonna we're gonna take it to the stud and I thought like I tell everybody I said you
know guys if you wanted me to get waterproof it guarantee it you gotta take the whole square off
nine out of ten people say Kirk are you out of your mind just do what's necessary especially in
a situation like this so we're going to take it remove the spout take it to about right here to
here we're gonna put new lath scratch it brown it and then I'm gonna texture it all the way to
the top with a bonding agent so because this is a santa barbara smooth mission finish and they're
real tough to match unless you go from corner to corner ceiling to top so anyway we're going
to get started and bust it all out when we get to that stage of scratching brown and and repair will
show it to you okay guys let's show you another thing ah the stud is right here and the stud is
right here where I put my finger I know because I just grabbed a measuring tape to measure from here
to here to market Jay pointed that out yeah what are you doing you could see the stud so what we do
is we want to be on there you figure the stud is from here to here that's all we have to work with
so what we got to do is we got to break it out here we're probably gonna take it around right
here we got to break it out here and stay on this stud here which is really tough to do we're just
gonna remove this whole section after we break it out we'll have to cut all these wires too
we cut all these wires good morning we cut all the wires and then we just remove this repaper
it when we get to that stage we'll show it to you there you have it Jay doing the breakout
a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it
can't tell you guys enough about wearing a mask when you're doing this stuff you got a place this
is dark and there was a flashlight looking through the beam of light you would see all that dust in
the air Jay didn't have his mask around he would be inhaling it I'm standing downwind myself okay
guys just got this big piece and you better wear gloves if you're gonna do this because once he
gets a couple more pieces that whole slab is gonna come off and it believe me it weighs a
lot more than it looks that's about 150 pounds right there there you go last thing you want
to do is hold that and have those wires rip it out your hand and rip a hole in your hand okay
guys Jay got this stucco out I just figured I'd show you the line wire now they put this every
six inches they take this wire wrap it up wrap it up and that's what holds it so you don't use
a whole lot of stucco on these walls back in the 1940s and 50s they used to use this all the time
anyway we're going to put about four layers of paper over here and we have we have pretty decent
paper it's not that bad but it's not great it is what it is anyhow we're gonna go ahead and
pay for this up and Jay is gonna get a mix going okay guys I'm leaving this line wire on because it
give me a little bit more solid backing today we have paperback wire with the wire on it four studs
although today we don't use paperback wire anymore because the new codes require everything to have a
shear panel on it shear plywood so what I'm doing is I'm taking my curve of this paper I do things
a lot of times without even thinking about it but for you folks you want to put your curve on this
stud here then take a hammer tacker and get into this stud and we are going to caulk the piss out
of this I'm actually I'm actually going to put two more layers so I have a total of four layers
because what I want is I want this to be sturdy so when I I don't have to use four buckets and
well actually I use I'll use about four buckets as is but if I make this very sturdy then I only
have to use about three so I'm gonna double this one up I'm gonna cut it here tuck it in here and
we are gonna caulk the mess out of these edges here and now I'm back on the stud here so now
this makes this more solid I'm gonna put two more layers we're gonna tuck underneath this new paper
has to go under this otherwise it's gonna have an issue so anyway that's where we're at then we're
gonna put the wire on it okay guys we are set to do the wire now technically I was going to use
this wire right here we got all kinds of wires on our Chuck you name it we have it well we did
a job about two weeks ago where I was explaining how to do soffits and I use this for ceilings or
as lid softens whatever you want to call them when the studs are say 24-inch centers it's very rigid
this is called rib laughs so I figured I don't really use or I don't need this stuff so I might
as well use it here and I can follow my stud here although I can't see it because I could see my
small statement and this this particular last here very very rigid it doesn't matter if you go on top
or underneath let's say for example when I gets to the stage I'm gonna put this wire right here
and go over and tie in if we don't tie in we'll get a perimeter crack right here I'll put this
down and I'm gonna go right over it say we get underneath these wires the best we can and get
on top of these guys and just staple them in okay then I take these wires here because remember if
we don't do a wire to wire we will get a perimeter crack and even if we do wire to wire we could
still get a perimeter crack when we get ready to do the mud now the last thing I'm going to do is
I'm gonna put a few concrete nails in here because here's where our concrete is and the next time we
come out here to do our scratching Brown coat I'm gonna get all this dust off I'll just hose it down
now the edges get this polyurethane caulking right here we caulk it really really really well that's
the best you can do with what we have to work with I'm still not done stapling it but just trying to
prove a point this polyurethane caulking on both sides is a must it doesn't matter what Brandi as
long as it's a good polyurethane caulking anyhow that's how you put this back together after our
inspection then we're gonna come back and do the scratching Brown coat and match the existing
finish but thought I'd show you folks how to laughs that if you're unfortunate enough to
go through your own wall or your neighbor's wall with a car my name is Kirk, Jason, on the camera
as usual also as usual we thank you folks for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.