hi folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering today what we're doing is commercial
work ah what we have here are awed it's a litigation nightmare there were a lot
of decks that leaked the 6th floor in the fifth floor there's about six decks on the sixth floor
and about the same below anyway a buddy of mine who I owe a favor to called me up and said hey
you know those four days that you promised you'd give me I'm calling you on that and I said those
days those well back in Easter you remember what you said about jordana always pays his debt so
anyhow I owe this fella four days so Jason and I are going to come and pay our debt to him he
says well why don't I want Jay to and I want you to film it and I said so you don't want me
for my expert abilities on commercial work and flashing and counter flashings you want us here
for the video stuff and he said partly I said good enough for me that works anyhow what we're
going to do today guys that we're on a commercial piece of property and the rules change when you
go from residential to commercial for instance generally we got a lot of inner expansion joints
as well as outer expansion joints the expansion joints on commercial is going to be laid flat
on the wall seven eighths of an inch and then we're going to take our expanded metal and go
up to that now there's a lot of different things here for commercial we're going over dens glass
and Den's glass is it's got the fire ratio it's a waterproof type membrane it can you you want
to see right here Jay it's a yellow it's like sheetrock except it has jit some in the middle
and then acrylic or fiberglass mesh on the outside both kind of waterproof fire resistance has a lot
of different uses so what we're going to do is the fellas have taken the decks out and in order to
repair something you got to have a good idea why it even failed in the first number one it failed
because the pans were flattened out now these pans here are new and they're going up some somebody
had it into their mind well gee whiz those pans stick up and then the door thresholds won't fit
so they pounded him flat that was part of the reason but the original decks failed and what
the Hat originally was a membrane about a quarter inch thick and that membrane was so well attached
they had to use pneumatic tools with blades to get that membrane off on top of the membrane they had
a piece of shir and then they've put membranes on that anyhow that's not our concern what is
our concern is they have brand new decks now and of course the brand new decks are state-of-the-art
new decks now these fellows have put in a four-inch flashing and a six-inch flashing our job
now is to counter the flashing so the contractors here the generals have told my cow what he wants
our new drip screens counter in their existing drip screens are going to be up inch and a half
and I was a loud bang so we're going to go up an inch and a half here our other details which
there's a lot of details here guys they have taken these doors out they've put the doors back on top
of a bike or by course grace grace type product grace makes it by core is like a heavy mill it's
I think it's 50 I'm not certain of the exact width of it but anyway the doors sit on bike or sit on
the pans and what my buddies job is which means it's my job also we are going to take new bike or
and go over these flanges here and go up in as far here as we can to water tied it when we come over
here we're going to play screens on it there is another deck where got a lot of people on it a lot
of guys working which we're going to go on now and it'll show the screens on it i'm actually hanging
this screens because I'm pretty good at flashing and counter flashing so I'm hanging in the screens
and then this paper here they got a 60 minute paper which is designed for commercial again guys
the rules do change when you go to commercial applications so there's 60-minute paper we're
going to be using that also and again wherever expansion joints are we're going to cut and tie
into it then we're going to do a scratching brown and the Carson's coating is going to go on top of
here we're going to feather into it they're going to paint the entire system to man they're talking
about very very thorough but my buddies he's got to match everything that this previous company did
in this previous company i looked at it myself and I thought man those guys are on a scale of one to
ten there are ten they really knew what they were doing the stucco did not fail on this building the
concrete failed or their deck material failed so we're going to wrap up we're going to go and i'm
going to show you if i can there's about six guys on a small deck but what kind of muscle in on them
and try to explain the best we can with what we are doing all right guys now we're going to cross
this threshold this guy right here they is the boo-boo they did last time they pounded it flat we
always trying to avoid that hey guys don't mind us all right let's show you kind of what we're doing
here is here's what we're doing now first we mark the stud I'm studs on a home every twenty or every
16 inches steel studs guys everything has got to be machined screwed in so what I'm doing is I got
the glorious task of finding the studs which are marked in red then i'm i'm a i'm looking for the
cricket is what's a cricket well that makes the water flow so it's not sitting in the corner so
my job is to take this weep screed which is i'm using templates two by fours which give us an inch
and a half and i'm putting my two by four here and where the cricket is that cricket comes here
I'm cutting my screen and bending it upward then i take this screen here and a notch out
my corner i put it to that one there and you see here of course where our scupper is let me see
that please thank you sir thank you I use this guy as a template this way I'm not guessing and
I notched out my corner and then of course we are using screws to suck this in if I use a staple gun
it really won't suck it in on the stud once we locate our studs we hold it right where we get
it where we need it now what we're doing is we are going to notch this out and we're putting j trim
around here we're putting j trim around all the doors you see this inner expansion joint we are
going to tie in another inner expansion joints that we have our work cut out because there's
a six decks on this one south west side and blows the same situation not to mention what we're going
to do as far as to tie it all in with cement as well as the the coating anyway that gives
you an idea of tying in work to commercial it's much different than residential guys I've done
enough of it when I was Union 30 years ago and like a bicycle if you remember you got
common sense you know how to do it so these are things we're all going to do here work together
and see how many days it takes us to put this thing back together anyway my name is Kirk I'm
with Kirk. Giordano plastering, we thank you, folks, for watching just this explanation video.
When we get ready to do some actual work will show you that kind of stuff when we get there
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