howdy folks Kirk and Jay here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today we're gonna do is show you guys
how to repair a hole left by an air conditioning unit we are in Pleasant Hill generally my buddy
Ron Roberts plastering uh gets most of the work out here since he lives here anyhow what these
folks have done is they've studied it and I asked him they sent me a picture of this and I said can
you tell me something is it a stud house or does it have shear wall and they said well it
was built 40 years ago I said enough enough said back in the late 70s I was working from my old
buddy Sam HOF and that's all we did they didn't have requirements for shear back then so it's a
stud house meaning I can see the stucco right here that's about an inch and a half almost two inches
thick you think gee whiz why is that so darn thick because that's in the field you've got studs a
stud is right here they've sistered another one for me good so they got a stud right here and
then they got a stud right here so this is in the field in the field you lose a lot of stucco
so what we're gonna do is underneath this window here prior to them installing the window they put
a piece of flash in it should have some kind of papercraft flashing that's what they used about
40 years ago it's a craft paper with fibers in it so we're gonna take this piece off because we want
to take our new paper go under here and I can go a lot of different ways to put this together but
I just happen to have some paperback wire on the truck so we're gonna gently break it back here
with the Bulldog we use there's a lot of tools to use guys you can use air tools electric tools you
could use a hammer but if you use a hammer you're using muscle and you'll kind of beat it up more
than you do more damage than good so we're gonna use our electric tool here and break this out as
gently as possible because right here is a stud that's the original stud and here's the field if
we end up in the field man it's a nightmare to try to waterproof in the field but we're pretty good
at it so we'll do the best we can so right now we're going to get started Jays gonna go ahead
and break this out break all this out as gently as possible and hopefully we won't get in this
field here because if we do there are ways to handle it that we waterproof it but I'm hoping
we don't have to go that route anyhow we'll show you how we break it out and pop it back together
okay guys Jay has done the breakout and we actually got some pretty good paper I expected
we would the house is only 40 years old so it's in good condition okay what we're gonna do now
is we're gonna put paper over the existing paper now what I did is I just cut this little piece
of flashing now this is a craft type flashing with oh it's got that reinforced mesh in it and
we're gonna slide it down in here the bigger pieces like this it takes a little bit longer
if you cut them small a little faster but then you're okay that one's in it anyhow the smaller
ones go in faster but they don't cover it as well okay we got that one in there I'm gonna
get a full piece in here and I'm just gonna slide this guy right in here on top of this
existing flashing best that I can okay that's in there like so and it's always good to slide
it down slide it down as far as you can over that it doesn't have to be pretty because we
still have got a couple pieces there now this is this paper here useless we just take it off
because what we want is this paper here this is the original craft paper that this old like
it window was put on now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take some clean paper and by the way
guys this is salford paper paper back it's what I'm gonna put on after I put this off
now I'm gonna do the best I can let's see the slide this piece under me this guy right here
and yes talking it will be necessary so I'll put this guy right here get it right where I wanted
let's see get a couple tacks in here try not to get your finger guys then we're gonna stretch
it stretch it tight get this side get it up under there and go over this existing and stretch it if
you don't stretch it guys you'll use a lot of plaster to get it tight let's see I'll follow
my star just by with my hand you know do the same here you see me get it on top of this and a lot of
ways to caulk this - guys we can [ __ ] it right now before so I can put a bead of caulk in here
and then put this on it then it gets all over my fingers or I can do it this way and keep in mind
I'm going to be placing another sheet of paper over this so once I get right where I want it
now I'll take a tube of caulking and I kind of partial to that Paul urethane Calkins whatever
caulking you want to use guys make certain that it's a good one we take this polyurethane stuff
here nasty try not to get it all over your guys and squeeze it in here get this joint real well
that way because I mean these folks are going to paint this house but at the same time this is a
color coat maintenance-free finish so this color coat maintenance-free finish will allow water to
go through it so when it goes through it I don't want it to go behind this paper here so we'd give
it a good amount of caulking like so over here same thing same thing caulk that crap out of it
guys talking's cheap well not this particular stuff but caulking as a rule is pretty cheap
five six seven bucks a tube good insurance that it won't leak now the next time you see me I'm
gonna have alright this piece right here fastened on it alright guys now what we have done is we've
caulk even under here because water can go here hit this and drip out and go behind the paper we
want to make certain that we are watertight now it mixed me up some quick-set cement and then
it put live and I in it because we're going about an inch and a half to two inches thick it doesn't
matter how well you apply your paper and stretch the crap out of it you're still gonna go between
studs I actually have rib lath on my truck and I could I could use rib laughs but I could make
this work - you name it and we can make it worse so fast as I put saw by the time I get to the
bottom of this bucket Jace's will time you get to the bottom it's gonna be hard and I thought
to myself that works that's fine because we are going about a half inch in well actually we're
three quarters here to seven eighths inside we are inch and a half to two in the field
I don't care how good you guys are you are not gonna stretch the crap out of that wire when I
first got into the trades that's all we did was stretch wire because they didn't have the shear
wall codes back then by the way two guys folks here said something what interesting to me they
said well gee we're gonna go ahead and paint this it doesn't matter what you do because we're gonna
paint it anyhow I said you know what guys to finish you have on here with maintenance-free
it's 40 years old as it as a tip in the future or it's not too late for them I said you could
paint all your ears and put another color coat maintenance-free finish directly over this and
that will work I said every once you destroy this maintenance-free finish by painting it now every
eight to ten years you're gonna have to paint it again and especially we're in Pleasant Hill
where it's kinda hot the hotter it is the more you have to paint it doesn't last so you folks
consider painting the house look into a color coat forty years old color coat here and all it
is is it tends to lighten and darken in different areas but if you get tired of it you could always
tell the coat directly over it you don't need a bonding agent the only thing you need to do
is pressure wash the house so I'm gonna take another five minutes and play around with this
you see we're pretty thick and as soon as I get it to where it's hard as a rock I'm gonna texture
it okay guys we've allowed this to about ten minutes now what what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
use a hard rubber float as well as a sponge float all rubber float why because okay I'm
hard rubber floated all of this then i sponged it to get my joint a little tighter that's real
important for us craftsmen okay here's what we're doing now I'm taking this hard rubber float and
I'm compressing it so all I'm doing is making the wall trim plumb as well as opening it up you say
what's the difference between open it and closing it well if I use my trowel like here and trial it
like this now I've closed it it will crack this is opening it you can't see it but it's it's opening
it meaning compressing it tight getting it in these joints real well and just getting all the
humps out here's my last oh here's another tip guys you can use the edge if it's too full shave
it off a hair shave it off a little bit guys okay a little bit of muscle push it in easy peasy after
doing a few hundred of these you get mighty good at it but as I said in a other videos too guys
my job is half the battle if Jason didn't mix me this stuff just right I wouldn't be able to do it
okay a little bit of water on this sponge float why because you see the transition there that's
real nice a little bit of water and it makes the transition once I put my texture on here
even tighter this is the difference between say homeowner handyman and a fellow like me who is
technically supposed to be professional okay now that's that's pretty tight my joints are tight
I'll hit it one more time with this and now of course Jay already mixed me up some color coat
I just happened to be using BMI since I have it on the truck and this particular BMI all it is is
a color it's the same texture grit that they've used here now I've got to get my trowel sticky
I try to put it on with out with with my trowel with water on it the first one won't skip well so
okay now that I got that done I'm looking at the fellows texture who did it right-handed pulling
it up most of them are so that's exactly what I'm gonna match pull it up here and come up okay
Has a lot of little six inches. I'll just put it on six inches fella has stroked afoot. We
put it on foot easy, nothing to it. You just got a look at it. It does take practice to learn all
these finishes. It's like that way when these guys paint this war if I talked about it into
a color that matches the color. It doesn't really matter. This doesn't match. Still,
suppose the paint in it certainly does anyhow. In that case, that's on there now and what I do
is I take my Chow to knock it down, slightly knocked it down, slightly I knock it down too
much. It doesn't match that it becomes a pancake. If I don't knock it down at all,
then it becomes like, well, way heavier than this, so that's about right anyhow guys, nothing to it,
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giordano plastering anyhow guys we thank you for watching and as usual Jason. I will see
you at the next one.