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- From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Rehab old 2nd-story deck surface?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.144245.44886@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:42:45 CST
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- House I'm likely to own soon if the last few bits of the deal go through
- has a second-story railed deck over what used to be the front porch,
- which has now been finished (poorly) into an interior room. A lot of
- the second-story decks on pre-World War 2 houses around here seem
- to have been purely ornimental--no door out to them, for example. But
- my future place not only has a door but a complete little entryway,
- with storm and interior doors about 18" apart. So I suspect that it
- was intended to be used, but with an *outside* porch underneath
- that didn't need a particularly watertight roof.
-
- Sometime in the past folks have put lord knows what as roofing
- on the deck--probably asphalt/gravel culminating in the deteriorating
- rolled roofing that's now the top. This is going to have to be
- replaced sometime soon, and I'd like to replace it with some sort
- of hard surface that will function as a deck. (There is no other
- outside porch--all three original ones [front, back, upstairs sleeping]
- now are closed and finished.)
-
- Mechanical inspector recommended stripping off the crud to a sound
- surface (replacing boards if necessary), adding new rolled roofing
- and putting some sort of floating decking on top of that. No real
- problem unless there's no sound surface left underneath. I can't
- help wonder if there's some way to kill two birds with one stone
- in that situation, perhaps by putting down two layers of exterior
- plywood with something (metal, plastic, sealant?) between them to
- function both as waterproof roof and floor surface. Since area
- involved is about 10'x20', cost per square foot is an object....
-
- Ideas or references?
-
- Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
- SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
- 913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
-