Looking for ideas for protection a large remodel during the rain season in California.
House is a two story with an 8:12 roof. We will be removing and bumping out one side. Have some ideas but would love some tested methods. Have Some big tarp ideas but would love some input on how to prevent the winds from keeping me up at night.
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Blue tarps--you see them all over Florida, even a couple years after the latest hurricane. Eventually UV will ruin them, but they should last for year. I'm not sure how they're fastened, but would think that vertical battens nailed on with roofing nails would work. Don't know what they do for a drip edge to keep the water from flowing back into the structure at the bottom. Guy I knew protected his house with polyethylene sheet over the roof deck, but pulled the bottom taut and nailed it with a batten to the side of the house--all the water coming off the roof flowed right down the sheeting to the wall and through the siding into his dining room and ruined the plaster.
Edited for numerous misspellings!
Edited 10/28/2005 8:15 am ET by Danno
Thanks Danno-
I am looking for more ideas for basically tenting the entire structure for 6 months with a heavy duty silver tarp. So that we can frame during the winter.
All ideas welcome
The masons in Michigan often use scafolding and polyehtylene to tent over parts of the job--have never seen them tent over the whole building though. Guess it could be done--wind would be the main problem. Maybe use bungy cords to allow some "give" to the covering?
Well, if you can figure out where to put the center pole, rent one of them Big Top circus tents. Heavy duty canvas stretched out and tied down to stakes driven into the earth around the house, supported by the center pole.
To think out of the box a bit, no ever said that the center pole had to go straight up through the center of the existing house. If the tent were large enough, 1/2 of it might shield the part of the house you're working on. Just build around the "center" pole until you can move/remove the tent to finish the job.
A lot of work to set up one of those things, and a lot of work to move it, but it might cover enough to allow you to work underneath it, might allow heaters to be feasible during colder season, and might still be financially justifiable. Crunch the numbers.
Not exactly what you are looking for but possibly useful:
Canopy type structures that you see at weddings but any size and shape:
http://www.tentcoinc.com/store/index.html
http://www.canopyusa.com/