The addition to the LaLa is a screen porch with a balcony or terrace on top. The screen porch is almost like a room – not having treated wood columns but actually wall panels that have cypress siding etc. Bud told Steve and me to order this composite decking material that is waterproof because it has tongue and groove and you can run a bead of silica in between. The manufacturer says it is not waterproof. Nobody in the city is familiar with it except Bud. <\/p>\n
That doesn’t keep everyone from being an expert. The roofer says he would do the torch down and let that be the floor because then it wouldn’t be compromised. <\/p>\n
For additional info on what this looks like the terrace slopes away from the house and has two wide scuppers at the end. <\/p>\n
The options presenting themselves are these: Twickler – the roofer – suggests using torch down, then put the composite decking boards, locked together with silica in between the tongue and grroove and then screwed in steppers so there is air space between the torch down and the deck<\/p>\n
Ken says put the rubber roof down, then the decking with the steppers. And he goes over and over how the steppers should be placed – I say run in line with the composite boards and he thinks it should be herringboned or what? <\/p>\n
Why is a terrace causing so much confusion – why is it that I have four expert opininons and none of them “know” if this is the right way but they all assume their position is the best way?<\/p>\n
Should I bag the decking and the torch down and the rubber roof and see about concrete or tile or something other than this mind job? <\/p>\n
Twickler wants $1200 for the torch down – Ken wants $1200 for the rubber roof to be laid down – I paid already at Bud and Steve’s recommend almost $2500 for the composite decking – is there something about this house that requires me to pay five times what the cost should be and suffer five times the aggravation and still not get to what I really want?<\/p>\n
Okay anyone with an opinion about the terrace needs to pipe up because this is a conundrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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