Hi guys Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today I want to do some behind the
scenes type of thing, it's in regards to plank why because I just had to turn down a job homeowner
had the house set three stories and they set it odd. Anyway let me let me tell you guys
something about plank. I know all about plank I've been ordering and buying it and working
on them for over 30 years, okay say right here this this particular plank right here this is
NP Nelson pine don't quote me on that NP plank. What I do is when back when I was using a lot of
plank I'd order this stuff last time i order was about twelve years ago.
I just said give me $8,000 worth blam, blam have it dropped at this job and we set it and teardown, I don't do that anymore.
Guys if you want plank and you want job set called Davis stucco with, Andy Davis wtith Davis stucco
he does all that stuff, anyway what is a plank a plank is twelve feet long why? is it twelve feet
long because scaffolds 10 feet you want a foot hanging off each side, why do I have my name put
on it because people have a so-called avaricious nature and they forget that those are not their
plank, so this is helps with it a little bit these particular plank here these are laminated like
they're laminated and glued together why because with that being done they have a tendency not to
rot and they're structurally stronger than say just a solid board, this is solid board, and I put
this here for a reason this is a Douglas fir usually Douglas fir the best, because they're
stronger, this Douglas fir here you could see it rotted out and that makes it obvious we can't
use it so I cut them and use them for other things. okay this this NP plank it's laminated wood
and they glue it together it makes it really super strong kind of like a glulam beam a
glulam beam, pieces of 2x4 stronger than the same solid piece of wood so this plank here is one of
the best, I actually called Andy Davis it's like twelve years ago it's a dude, who are you buying
your plank from? he told me go to NP so I called them back then we didn't have that online stuff
Google, Google all that anyway let me show you something guys because the job I was supposed
to do this week it's about 7:30 in the morning right now 7:00 7:30 it's early so we're getting
ready to get out of here, I just thought I'd show this because that one fella got kind of mad at me
and I thought man, I can't risk my life on your job. we don't want this guy's you see how that this is
we don't want that and so the plank that this fella used we're okay for building shelves,
or say building a house, but you can't walk on them or you can but they're dangerous, and not only that
the back of the house which was three stories, one of the legs was on a cinder block and I thought
you must be kidding, I'm not gonna go up there or risk my son's life on staging that's improper so
let me show you a few other things notice this NP plank here it doesn't have a rod that's burnt in
it or put in it some of these planks have rods and those rods are designed like say this one
okay this has a rod in it now the rod is designed to hold it together so it doesn't split see these
big splits here guys those big splits make them weak and we got to work off this stuff it's no
joke this particular one has a piece of metal around it pretty cheesy pretty tacky it gets in
the way it catches a bad deal these don't need the rod so use those guys I'll show you something too
we generally stack our plank with air to dry them out. Luuuu that's his job, Lou's always doing this
stuff once a year twice he'll paint the bottoms at the end so that they don't warp out too bad
because water penetrates them makes them weak. now this particular plank here let's see here
I have my neighbor using this and he parking his car on it in the mud a couple years you see even
now this concrete here this concrete is flat I did it 20-something years ago, the first time I ever
did concrete but it's flat now I'll see this how it's bowed like that guys you don't want
to put a plank in the mud or in the dirt just you always stack them neatly if you want to
and we do want to preserve them solid pieces of wood like this nowhere near as strong as these
that are laminated, anyway I thought I'd point some of this out because the fella says, gee
Kirk, can you can you call the guy and tell him all this stuff, and I said that's that guy with
that cool mustache and I got the tree trunk arms, no neck? yeah, you know him? I said no, I met
him, but I gotta get my teeth knocked out and tell them hey dude, change the 200 planks you hired
him it's your job you tell him, anyways I wanted to point it out that's the plank guys if you're
a homeowner make sure you know you hire somebody that they know what they're doing, over here guys
now firstly that long plank there that's 20 feet long that's a whole nother ball game, a
whole nother subject, yeah I've worked on that too but I figured I'd show this because we're running
out of room here and my wife says, uh baby she's whining about the space so, I that's a fact so
all this plank I'm it's gonna be gone in another three weeks anyway because I don't need it, I I'm
keeping only twenty-thirty plank, plus I have a whole garage full of it I thought I'd point
that out guys because it's not my job to tell folks hey if somebody hires they like the the
scaffold guy for me to come and tell him what to do with his with his scaffold, anyway so we're
trying to make use of what little space we have in this yard the blank guy's it's no joke I've
seen him snap I won't even go into the scaffold that nailed into the walls, or pump jacks, or any
of that hanging stuff which I worked off hanging scalpel 20, 20 stories high that's a whole nother
subject, but plank guys it's no joke, buy the real deal and save yourself the the fear of walking on
it and killing yourself. You better stuff squirting me on video, anyway my name is Kirk, Jason on the
camera Ime lovely wife.
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