Renovating a 1905 Princess Anne. Original porch is long gone, no idea what it looked like. The current plan is for a new porch that doubles as a balcony for the master bedroom on the second floor. The balcony would not be covered. I’ve developed some design ideas to make this work with the house’s architecture from an aesthetic viewpoint. Now I’m trying to figure out the mechanics. The balcony will be exposed to the weather (in Boise, Idaho). We get very little rain, even less snow, but lots and lots of direct, harsh sun (~2500′ elevation, relatively northern latitude so long summer days). Obviously, the thing will need a little pitch to let water run off, but I need some ideas for the balcony decking. Do I need a walk-on membrane (bitumen?) of some sort? On some historic houses I’ve seen, it looks like they simply did oak T&G flooring laid tight and well-painted, but I can’t see how I wouldn’t eventually end up with dry rot in the underlying framing. Can anyone recommend a subfloor/waterproof/flooring combination that will look good, fit the historic house, but stand up to the conditions without excessive maintenance?
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Greetings James,
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someones attention that can help you with advice.
Cheers
mister welcome wagon ambassador!LOL, you be working me hard today. Where you dinding all these two post threads?
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Greetings Great Oracle.
Having returned to the land of the living cable after a prison sentence among the dialups, I've been chasing down the unanswered single posts by backtracking msgs next 50 next 50 next 50...
After the new resignation snafus it's hard to tell who's a first time poster anymore.
The poster previously known as Bucksnort aka Snort couldn't get the resignation to work right using his name so he typed in 'bite me' and it took. ROAR!
Now he's stuck with that new handle and it can't be changed until Mark makes another change in the system and who knows how long that might be.
Too funny.
be a 'bite me'
A person with no sense of humor about themselves is fullashid
I ran into same snafu and almost typed in vilage idiot because all the rejection notices were making me feel like one.
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heh heh
I was holding 'razzman' as a pocket card and now I'm back stuck as rez.
be unknown
A person with no sense of humor about themselves is fullashid
I use EPDM and build a sleeper system with IPE` decking or fir. Try ouit the advanced search feature here with EPDM, decks, IPE and similar terms to find previous discussions wioth photos
Traditional when covered by a roof and with no finished space below was to use fir T&G and paint every year or two. For a space such as yours, long ago they used painted sailclothe nailed down every inch at the edge and painted with several coast. I have installed one like this and don't recommend it, or would use ice and water shiled peel anmd stick under it
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Hate to loook like an idiot, but roofing is not my usual gig. What the heck is EPDM?
Never mind, I figured out what it is. Now I just need to figure out the appropriate substrate, and attachment method.