A huge crew of nine good-looking young fellows arrived first thing yesterday to do the final pour/placement.
The torch-on sealing around a post and roof-downpipe
But, first, before my female readers or gay men get too excited, I’ll show you the preparation required to get to this pour.
Steve the roofer installed a layer of “glass-based nail-down” and a very waterproof layer of “torch-on” (basically a tar).
To protect the fancy copper-coloured flashing (matches the roof), a 2x2 is inserted between the 2x10 and the flashing.
Then the building crew installed the complicated form for the 2″ concrete deck. To make it as water-shedding as possible, the concrete extends over the flashing 1.5″.
triangular drain strip
Denis, the concrete contractor, suggested a tiny triangular strip atop the 1.5″ strip, to ensure that, if any water manages to get into the concrete, it gets drained out this little space. Any dripping from the deck that occurs does not drain directly onto the cedar trim, but further out.
stripped v-groove deck detail
A layer of 6mm plastic covers the tar to protect it from gouging by rocks in the concrete mix.
Two decks, two doorsteps, one bathroom floor, the studio floor and pony wall to hide the kiln, and three miscellaneous pads. All this with only 10 cubic meters of fly-ash concrete, and in 2.5 hours!
Stripped deck
finished upper deck
And, now, the concrete hunks:
