Comments on: Flashing A Deck Ledger Board Properly http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/how-to-properly-flash-deck-ledger-board/ Expert Home Improvement Advice Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:40:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Todd http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/how-to-properly-flash-deck-ledger-board/comment-page-1/#comment-41490 Todd Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:42:55 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/07/how-to-properly-flash-a-deck-ledger-board/#comment-41490 @ Deejay - Thanks for the compliment. First off you'll want to get yourself a vinyl siding hook that allows you to "unbutton" the siding without taking everything down. This way you can remove the siding up above the ledger board by a couple of courses and install the flashing properly. I would install the flashing behind the foam board directly to the sheathing, then let the foam cover the top of the flashing. Good luck! @ Deejay – Thanks for the compliment. First off you’ll want to get yourself a vinyl siding hook that allows you to “unbutton” the siding without taking everything down. This way you can remove the siding up above the ledger board by a couple of courses and install the flashing properly. I would install the flashing behind the foam board directly to the sheathing, then let the foam cover the top of the flashing. Good luck!

]]> By: deejay http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/how-to-properly-flash-deck-ledger-board/comment-page-1/#comment-41489 deejay Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:22:01 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/07/how-to-properly-flash-a-deck-ledger-board/#comment-41489 Thanks for all the great info on your site. I plan on adding a small deck this summer. Your technique sounds very good (I just wish I could enlarge the images). My question is how to handle flashing around existing vinyl siding. I will need to cut out the siding to add the ledger board, so what is the best way to extend the flashing up behind the siding without having to remove all the siding from the top down? Also, I have 3/4" of rigid foam behind my siding. Should I flash from the outer surface of the foam board, or go behind it to the sheathing? Thanks for all the great info on your site. I plan on adding a small deck this summer. Your technique sounds very good (I just wish I could enlarge the images). My question is how to handle flashing around existing vinyl siding. I will need to cut out the siding to add the ledger board, so what is the best way to extend the flashing up behind the siding without having to remove all the siding from the top down? Also, I have 3/4″ of rigid foam behind my siding. Should I flash from the outer surface of the foam board, or go behind it to the sheathing?

]]> By: Todd http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/how-to-properly-flash-deck-ledger-board/comment-page-1/#comment-41415 Todd Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:21:56 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/07/how-to-properly-flash-a-deck-ledger-board/#comment-41415 @ Keith - Thanks for that tip. Decks really should have a ledger in addition to the hangers. The hangers shouldn't be attached directly to the house, mostly due to the fact that there's not good way to flash the connection. Structurally it's not a great detail either. @ Keith – Thanks for that tip. Decks really should have a ledger in addition to the hangers. The hangers shouldn’t be attached directly to the house, mostly due to the fact that there’s not good way to flash the connection. Structurally it’s not a great detail either.

]]> By: Keith http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/how-to-properly-flash-deck-ledger-board/comment-page-1/#comment-41414 Keith Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:52:21 +0000 http://localhost/test/2008/07/how-to-properly-flash-a-deck-ledger-board/#comment-41414 Another thing to point out (didn't see it in the article) is to make sure you don't nail the deck boards into the band and through the Z flashing, last summer I had to replace all the siding, most of the framing, and detach a second floor wrap around deck because the builder had done this and the flashing failed causing water damaged inside the walls and rotting the entire band as well. We used a bitchathane membrane behind the rim when we replaced it, was my first time using it. Also an alternative to the ledger board is using joist hangars instead, some people prefer hangars... Nice description Todd. Another thing to point out (didn’t see it in the article) is to make sure you don’t nail the deck boards into the band and through the Z flashing, last summer I had to replace all the siding, most of the framing, and detach a second floor wrap around deck because the builder had done this and the flashing failed causing water damaged inside the walls and rotting the entire band as well.

We used a bitchathane membrane behind the rim when we replaced it, was my first time using it.

Also an alternative to the ledger board is using joist hangars instead, some people prefer hangars…

Nice description Todd.

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