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   FastEddie1 | Sep 08, 2004 04:01pm | #1

   Where is the house?  Big difference if you're in Arizona or Seattle.  Is the deck elevated?  How far?  Is the deck roofed?

   And you would get better responses if you moved this to "Construction" or "General".  This section is for Monday morning quarterbacks to give cheap advice on how to better run this forum.

   Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

   
   

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   Edited 9/8/2004 9:03 am ET by Ed Hilton

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   Keith2 | Sep 08, 2004 04:05pm | #2

   I am in San Antonio Texas. The deck is outside and not coverered . Also it is by a swimming pool.

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   FastEddie1 | Sep 08, 2004 04:25pm | #3

   San Antonio ... I've heard of that place.  If the deck slopes enough to let the water run off, it might work.  But you.re next to a pool, so thsat means that the ply will get wet frerquently.  Probably not a good idea.  Why does the client want carpet?

   Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it.  T. Roosevelt

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   jonblakemore | Oct 04, 2004 07:06am | #4

   Use a EPDM membrane over the ply.

    

   Jon Blakemore

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   RIPVW | Oct 04, 2004 07:18am | #5

   besides the membrane, use all treated lumber including the plywood, a decent amount of slope and avoid places where water can get caught up in the cracks and stay wet after a rain storm.  let it drain through...

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   Piffin | Oct 04, 2004 07:23am | #6

   built the way the customer proposes it, he needs to be prepared to replace it every five or six years

    

    

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