West Los Angeles Handyman

Posted: January 19, 2013 by Multitrade Home Repair Service in Uncategorized
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I’ve been a working as a West Los Angeles handyman for the past 19 years. I service areas like Marina Del Rey, Culver City, Mar Vista, Palms, West Los Angeles, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and a few other areas. As a West Los Angeles handyman, I understand the diverse needs of the people in my area that range from minor repairs to more involved renovations. I handle a wide array of repairs and new installations dealing with plumbing, electrical and carpentry. I mostly get called in for electrical and plumbing service calls, so that tends to be my strong suit, however I am fully tooled up for all sorts of carpentry jobs and other miscellaneous jobs.

One other thing I’d like to add, while this may not have any bearing on whether or not you hire me, I’ve been a believer in Christ for over 30 years. I’m not telling you this preach to you, convert you, make myself sound superior to anyone else or a number of other things. My only real reason for mentioning this, is that being a believer that God is always with me at all times holds me to a very high accountability level. How does this translate to you? Simply put, if I damage something in your home by accident or any number of other honesty related issues, I’m going to come forward to you about it and claim responsibility, where other handymen might not. It also means that you can trust me in your home when you’re not able to be there with me during the process of doing the repairs.

Stucco patching job

Posted: January 18, 2013 by Multitrade Home Repair Service in Uncategorized
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Stucco patching job

This first stucco patching job that I’m going to show you is regarding a new window installation that was improperly flashed by the installer, which wasn’t me, by the way. This first picture of the stucco patching job is when I was cutting away and removing the stucco from around the top of the window. You will notice in this picture that the original cut line was only 1 ½”. This is the amount of stucco that was removed and subsequently replaced by the window installer.

stucco picture #1

In the next picture of the stucco patching job, you will see the proper amount of stucco that needs to be removed in order to flash a window properly.

stucco picture #2

After I removed the 7” of stucco for the stucco patching job, I pulled back the original wire mesh, cut off all but about 2” of it and then left about 4” of the original tar paper to overlap the new flashing that I installed.

stucco picture #3

In this next picture of the stucco patching job I used a product called Fortiflash, which is a special type of window flashing that has a self adhesive backing that bonds to the window header. I purposely brought this down and lipped it onto the top of the window frame for watershed purposes and water tight integrity.

Stucco picture #4

The next step of the stucco patching job is to make sure that the new flashing goes underneath the original flashing or tar paper and then to fold it over and onto the new flashing in proper sequence. In these next two pictures of the stucco patching job, you notice that the first one shows the flaps of the old flashing and then how it looks after they have been folded over and onto the new flashing. I used clear silicone to adhere the old to the new.

stucco picture #5

stucco picture #6

The next part of the stucco patching job is to install the wire lathe. I prefer to use the fine mesh stucco lathe, as it has more contact surface for the stucco to adhere to. You may or may not be able to see in this picture of the stucco patching job that I not only used screws to secure the mesh, as apposed to nails, but that I also used zip ties to unify the old mesh to the new mesh. The zip ties that I used are blue in color.

stucco picture #7

In this next picture of the stucco patching job, you will see the final appearance of how the stucco looks. It’s next to impossible to get the stucco patch to match the existing stucco for several reasons, which I won’t go into detail about here.

stucco picture #8

In this last picture of the stucco patching job, I have a close up picture showing how I ran a bead of white caulk along the top of the window to help watershed. I also did this along the sides and bottom of the window. This is very important with stucco patching because stucco is concrete based and will crack from earthquake vibrations and such.

stucco picture #9

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