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Thu, 10 Jul 2008

Home Renovation Project: Back Patio Deck: Progress Report
Lots of work on the back patio deck project was accomplished today. In the early morning, Bob from the Allied Roofing (the company that installed our roof) dropped by to figure out the best way to flash the intersection between the roof and the deck. Jason was here too and between the three of us we came up with a good game plan to fix the problem of the water leaking down to the lower patio. Bob is going to order some custom metal flashing to step up the roof over the slate tile. He'll also flash around the corners. After he is done then Jason will re-install the tile in the area for a nice watertight fit. Hopefully it will work. Here is a picture of the area in question:

The intersection between the roof and deck.

Jason spent the rest of the morning installing the final pieces around the curb of the deck and completely cut in the corner drains. He'll come back and grout it on Friday (tomorrow).

Slate tiling on the deck is complete. Corner drain detail.

The fireplace subcontractors returned today to fix the damage to the fireplace that occurred during install. I had my doubts about whether it would look OK, but (to my surprise) they did a really good job. Here are a couple of pics:

The fireplace was installed today. Fireplace detail.

Baxton was busy jackhammering out the back step. We decided to make the footprint smaller for the benefit of increased floor space in the patio area. He'll pour a new step next Monday; after that we will be ready to tile. Baxton also installed the fascia around the upper deck (see picture above at right left).

(Update Mon Jul 14 07:45:39 PDT 2008 // right -> left)
(Update Fri Aug 8 11:34:34 PDT 2008 // changed URL of pictures)

:: Posted by rus on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:31 pm
:: Filed under /projects/back_patio_deck



        

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