good morning folks kirk here with kirk giordano plastering, my son jason giordano is doing the
videoing and he's also going to help me correct some of the wood here and tear some of the stucco
off what we're going to do today is there's about 10 different areas on this house that the wood is
rotted out can you see in here today see this wood here it's rotted out so what we got to do
or what anybody's got to do we got to break the stucco out here and then remove this piece of wood
take the piece of wood and have it milled and matched if we could find one at
shooting wide or home depot grade if not we have to have it milled there's about 10 areas
on this house that are similar to this piece and what we do is we break the stucco out here
and then we pull this wood off then we put a new piece back on and re-stucco that this
window is in set it's kind of weird it's in set here where like the rest of these windows
maybe you can focus on these these windows are just they're platforms a lot of names for that
too you just put the window inside the frame use some polyurethane caulking or silicone whatever
the window manufacturer recommends and you seal it to the frame this one here they did something kind
of bizarre and they went inside ah who knows why people do things anyway that's done right
there and it's done wrong so water's going inside and the water has really buckled this wall out
um they had some termite fellas come out and said gee there's nothing wrong with the wood here
they've drilled here and they drilled there so they said what we'll do is just change the piece
of wood well they called me and i looked at it and i said gee water's been traveling inside and more
than likely it swelled the wood and swelled it and it's probably going to have some wood rot here
uh best case scenarios green clear or copper green we just paint it on to kill
the mold worst case scenarios we might have to replace some studs in here but the the guy who
the termite fella who came out he says oh we'll just [ __ ] that and uh when i looked at it i
thought i would do that uh me i'd break it all out examine it just a little bit of exploration
and correct whatever the problem is and in the meantime order a window that fits this one here
has got to come out and be brought out to these to the outside where it belongs so they're going
to work on that but what we're going to do today is we're going to knock this out i have a pretty
good idea of what's going on so i just want to verify that and we'll show you as we do it
one second hold off for a second the reason jason's using that hilti is because if you use
a hammer you push the already deteriorated paper into the wood so you got to be done
skillfully not with just hard labor the hard labor does more damage than good sometimes so
a little bit of skill and great pneumatic tools will salvage what paper you can alright guys we
are breaking this side out over here and as you see toward the bottom there there was a lot of mud
and just dirt in general that just loosened up because water is getting back there
it's not a big deal uh in fact it looks pretty good here but at the top we're getting rid of
the eye source showing that bulge jay i'm going to take it at an angle right here so you can see
the bulge came out at least two and a half inches well when we fix this up you're not going to see
that so when they paint it next next month it's going to look real nice here and the mud sill so
far looks in pretty good condition but we'll cross that bridge in a few more minutes too
all right guys i forget where we are since it's a following day what
god i'm using a 3.4 wire here because if i use a 17 gauge which has inch and a half holes in
it i'd have to use a lot of these concrete nails because i can staple off into the wood here but
then when it goes over the concrete i also want to tie the concrete in so i'm using weld crete
and when we just brush this on this block finish that's so the next coat will adhere to this i want
to hear if there's no weld creed and plus this has got to be wire brushed very well can no residue on
it so when you're doing these little concrete nails you're probably thinking where did that
guy get that magnet a little magnet right here you grab a little concrete now and sometimes
they go in right sometimes they don't if you hit the grout sometimes they pop out or if you're
using long nails it's better to hit the grout you just put this guy in here use a big hammer
now the bigger the hammer um faster it's going to go in if you use a little tiny hammer you spend
all day and then you do more damage than good you vibrate it loose these little guys here you won't
find them uh anywhere except i believe uh west side building materials alta building supply
where i buy all my paper and wire and stuff but you'll probably never need this guy here anyway
as i've said in a few other videos real important uh we've got a caulk where the
paper meets the seal we are going to fuse this paper into the seal so when water hits this and
by the way they're going to change this window because it's not right but when water hits this
it's going to come down and we don't want it to go back in this paper so you're going to seal
that so that's it for this one all right guys we are finishing up this area here remember we had a
at first i thought it was about a two inch buckle but it was about a four and a half inch buckle
so what we've done here of course after we uh rewired it i'm shaving this down so i only got
about a quarter inch here now so it takes a fine hand otherwise the wire the concrete nail pops out
and i take the excess stucco and i feather it in here and i'm gonna feather more in here for the
transition so that it's not coming down and then coming out four inches in here it's unavoidable
that one inch because the concrete is half this so i only want to go quarter inch max here
and i'm going to keep building this up a bit more and the transition will be
pretty close where the average homeowner won't be able to tell that there was a
mistake right here all right guys we are complete with this tie in here and notice uh the finish is
somewhat unusual but it's very very simple it just looks more difficult than it actually is
the main thing is we've repaired everything that was damaged here that uh i thought it was
about two and a half but it was about a four inch bulge it was it came way out here so we feathered
That in my building this up a little bit more and this is a little less; anyhow, it's not an eyesore anymore. It looks good. It matches what they have here, so our job is complete anyway, this is kirk
With kirk, giordano plastering, we thank you, jason, for doing the video? We'll see you guys at the next one.