howdy folks kirk and jason here with kirk giordano plastering today i want to show you guys some
laughing and give you some laughing tips why because even on our websites if you go to it we
show you guys how to laugh you can save a ton of dough laugh it yourself and then call us we'll
do the scratch coats the brown coat the color code however many coats you need five coats if
necessary um my buddy dan here he did the uh the lath here now then he only he said i said how
long did you review the videos he said a little over an hour you guys take two hours maybe three
because now we got a few things right and a few things wrong now um i looked at this over here if
you could bring that camera over here jay i looked at this wall right here i said dude you put the
wire on backwards and he said how can you tell that it says it's flat and then i notice the
staples okay number one guys as you enroll the lath i mean this is you can call this
stucco netting lath a lot of names for it you put it on as it unrolls why do you put it on
as it unrolls like this you you you unroll it let me get this caulking off here for a second
you unroll it and that's how you put it off and that this becomes self-furred but if you
put it backwards you only have two percent bird that's like putting say if you're doing concrete
and you have rebar generally with rebar you put dobies on it little pieces of wood or uh concrete
and so the stuck the concrete goes under the dobies and above it so at say three inches or
four inches the concrete is below it and above it here if you put the lath on backwards or
you put too many staples and how many staples you're supposed to use a stud here a stud here
a stud here every 16 inches is a stud you just put one row on the stud every six inches and if
you get gung-ho and a lot of people do this a lot of licensed general contractors we do
a lot of work for general contractors and one of the main things they do is they get gung-ho
with the staples not knowing or believing they think well if i put more staples it's better not
necessarily guys that's only if you're drinking beer no kidding if you put more staples what it
does is flattens the wire so flat it's like taking rebar throwing it in the mud and then putting the
concrete above it it's useless so what jay and i generally do and we we've already done this
is and if you guys find it just pull it out you don't have to take the wire off just pull it out
a little bit now we've already gone over this uh shed uh for about an hour just doing this just
pulling everything out and you might look at it and say well it doesn't look out but if you push
your finger here you can see it's out it's we've yanked it all everywhere out to give it a self-fur
and now what happens if you over staple it well two ah thirty years ago we did a house in tuberon
up on gil martin and we got gung-ho and we put a lot of staples and they they didn't have the
insulation so the inspector came out i guess it was 30 35 years ago and he says
break them all down and so what we had to do is is just flatten them why flatten them
because now it gives a better bind and if you pull them out you create a lot of holes guys so
you don't have to replace the lath and you don't have to pull the staple just before you do the
insulation flatten them out i'll show you a couple other things two like if you're going to place
a j trim usually put it under the paper he's got this all set nice and the corners are flat
i usually tell all the contractors we work for the general contractors gcs we call them
i said guys do the paper and the wire do the membrane watch our videos if you don't know
because we're happy to come in and just do the cement work and teach you guys how to do the
the lath work so most of the gcs i work for i tell them don't do the corners guys because that
takes a little bit of practice how fast can i do a corner or anybody who's knowledgeable real quick
this corner it looks straight nice and pretty but it's a little bit off because it has to be flush
with this one this one here is out an inch so this has to be out an inch so technically i put
this one on here now this is flat this is a half inch i'll put this on and i'll adjust for the
um the other half inch we put that guy right there and i could use a gun
the compressor but it's too much work to set it up just for example
you could use nails too guys these are just roofing nails that works you put them on
i'd put them every six inches but now this aligns with this uh so that when the stucco
is placed on here it'll be one inch thick right here then this got aligned with that
this here the weep screed guys i mean this is not super important but as a rule we cut them
out of 45 that way this aligns with that all everything has to align both sides have to
align or should align but we're just doing a base coat here that's a scratch in the brown and then
we're coming back to do a color uh coat but i just wanted to mention guys some of the basics of doing
your own paper and wire and if you're going to do your own paper wire you use your weep screeds
you use two layers of paper you use 17 gauge wire or 18 gauge wire don't buy the 20 gauge
that's for tile or chicken coops and yeah i used to have chicken coops so he's got the
he's got the right everything he he saved himself a lot of time a lot of dough and
he just purchased some equipment that he needed anyhow i mean some of these uh lightweight
uh of this equipment he used for other purposes and he builds a lot of other different things so
it came in handy but anyway i wanted to and show you guys just you laugh it
call us or call somebody similar to us in fact personally i like to plaster
better than i like to laugh and i'd laugh hundreds of buildings in my time so we wanted to point
that out to you guys this just a quick uh quick consultation type video about how to laugh then
call us or somebody else to do the plaster work anyhow anyway my name is kirk jason on the camera
we thank you for watching and as usual we'll see you guys on the next one hi folks jason here and
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