8.7.2015

It's hard to find time to do simple things like get to the grocery store when there's so much to do and I want to be at the site, but we do have to eat so I ran a few errands this morning.

Jim was busy - he moved the side scaffolding to the other side, cut the last remaining piece on the second course, and got it all screwed into place.  He also got the rest of the strapping on and screwed down.

This is why Jim thinks all the work involved using steel is worth it...everything is perfectly straight as you look across at the framing.

When I got there, we put up the second piece on the top course.  Jim's system of putting a piece of wood to act as a handle to help him lower the plywood onto the ledger board works great.

This is a side view of the tongue and groove Advantech deck with all of the blocking underneath.  However, when attaching this top course, Jim has to screw the sheathing into all these steel connections - so each piece of sheathing on this course has over 100 screws!  And by now Jim has learned that the only way to get these screws in is to have good leverage and be able to push with all his might.



Working on one of those 100 plus screws....

 

Jim cut the last piece of sheathing to size and then brought it up to the deck.

 

Putting the screws in the last piece of sheathing on this side...

The view from up on top of the deck....

From inside...

And from down below...

 

At this point in the day, we decided to switch gears, give Jim's arms a little break, and work on membrane and brick flashing.  The block is totally dry at this point since it's been awhile since it rained so it's a good time to do it.

 

First, Jim had to clean the block with a wire brush....

 

 

...and unscrew the dimple board to have access to the top of the membrane so that we can overlap the two pieces.

Then it was time to apply...

Since we are picking up where we left off awhile ago, some areas already had brick flashing but some didn't.  We had to remember how to cut the brick flashing so that it could all be folded over correctly.  Cutting the pieces was my job...Jim applied it all.

As the day came to a close, we got almost the whole side finished.  Jim is even putting some membrane over the top of the dimple board to prevent any mortar from falling in between the dimple board and the membrane when he starts to brick.

 

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