Name: Video: How to Attach a Deck to a House
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SEBASTOPOL — Host, Sarah Rutan: When remodeling your deck, its important to know about proper installation. Today we’re in Sebastopol with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Steve Labourdette of Labourdette Construction to learn more.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Steve Labourdette: I’m going to show you the proper way to attach a deck to a house that will ensure years of good quality without any rot to the house or the deck and the structural way to hold the deck together well.
So, one of the most important parts when you are attaching a deck to the house is the flashing. That’s this metal piece here is the flashing. This black stuff here is also the membrane flashing. This is the ledger, which ill show you in a minute, that’s the structural part of the deck and this is showing some siding which is a great siding to use for under the deck because oftentimes when you are replacing a deck, the house has been rotted because it wasn’t attached this way and you want to use a really good rot proof siding which can be underneath that deck. You never have to see it but its never going to rot because it is actually made of cement.
So the flashing here as you can see goes over the metal so when that rain hits this flashing and this has whatever siding your house has over it over this and as that rain hits the siding, the stucco, whatever it is, its going to hit this flashing, then its going to hit this metal and then its going to hit this other flashing and then its going to hit the ledger. Behind the ledger, you’ve got more flashing and the siding like I discussed this cement siding. So lets take a look over at this house and I can show you how all these pieces look when they are on the house.
You can see this part of a Z bar right here is also right here on the house is that part of the Z bar right there. You can see it’s on top of the ledger keeping that water off the ledger. Now on top of this metal is the rubberized flashing like I showed you which ties into the other flashing of whatever your house is protected with, hopefully protected with felt paper behind the siding of your house.
Now this here is the ledger and you can see that’s been painted and that’s where the deck is structurally attached to the house. You can see the bracket here, which is also attached to the house, which we did not have in the mock up. You can see here is the cement siding behind the flashing and some more Z bar down here. So all of these steps here are like shingles in a way where one is keeping the water off of the thing that is below it and then you get all the way down to where you have your house protected from top to bottom from the rain intruding in.
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Video: How to Attach a Deck to a House

Steve Labourdette, Owner of Labourdette Construction, a Diamond Certified company, goes over when remodeling your deck, its important to know about proper installation.

Properly Attaching Your Deck from Steve Labourdette of Labourdette Construction.

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The Importance of Proper Deck Waterproofing

when remodeling your deck it's important
to know about proper installation today
we're in sebastopol with diamond
certified expert contributor steve
labardette of labradette construction to
learn more
i'm going to show you the proper way to
attach a deck to a house that will
ensure years of good quality without any
rot to the house or the deck and the
structural way to hold the deck together
well
so one of the most important parts when
you're attaching a deck to the house is
the flashing that's this metal piece
here is the flashing this black stuff
here is also the membrane flashing this
is the ledger which i'll show you in a
minute that's the structural part of the
deck and this is showing some siding
which is a great sighting to use for
under the deck because oftentimes when
you're replacing a deck
the house has been rotted because it
wasn't attached this way and you want to
use a really good rock proof siding
which can be underneath that deck you
never have to see it but it's never
going to rot because it's actually made
of cement
so
the flashing here as you can see
goes over the metal so when that rain
hits this flashing and this has whatever
siding your house has over it over this
and as that rain hits the siding or the
stucco or whatever it is it's going to
hit this flashing and that's going to
hit this metal and it's going to hit
this other flashing and then it can hit
the ledger and behind the ledger you've
got more flashing and the siding like i
discussed the cement siding
so let's take a look over at the house
here and i can show you how all these
pieces look when they're on the house
you can see this part of the z bar right
here
is also right here on the house is that
part of the z bar there you can see it's
on top of the ledger keeping that water
off the ledger now on top of this metal
is the rubberized flashing like i showed
you which ties into the other flashing
of whatever your house is protected with
hopefully protected with felt paper
behind the siding of your house now this
here is the ledger and you can see
that's been painted and that's where the
house where the the the deck is
structurally attached to the house you
can see the bracket here which is also
attached to the house which we didn't
have in the mock-up but um and then you
can see here is the siding the cement
siding behind the flashing and then some
more z-bar down here so all these steps
here are like shingles in a way where
one is keeping the water off of the
thing that's below it and then you get
all the way down to where you have your
house protected from top to bottom from
the rain intruding in
to learn more from local top-rated
companies visit our diamond certified
expert reports at
experts.diamondcertified.org
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