fresh home build coming soon

[skyking]

I burned the candles late last night, working off the roof with the lift below to mask off windows so we could paint today.
I got a coat on every stick we had nailed on.

We'll side our way up here and finish the north tomorrow, and get the rest of the doors installed.


Nice sky tonight, lots of neat features to it.

 

[skyking]

trim color


The stack of doors is shrinking

 

[skyking]

readying for paint tomorrow.

 

[snoopy7548]

Paint it neon pink!

 

[BoomerD]

Paint it neon pink!

Or Seahawks Go-Go Green!

 

[skyking]

yeah? no

 

[deadlyapp]

yeah? no
*snip*

I've heard mixed opinions, but are you supposed to caulk the butted ends of the siding? Seems like it isn't actually required for warranty?

 

[Greenman]

I've heard mixed opinions, but are you supposed to caulk the butted ends of the siding? Seems like it isn't actually required for warranty?

It doesn't work very well. You have to be really neat or the paint will flash where you got caulking on the siding, and when the siding expands it sticks out like bird crap on the house. The only thing that I ever used was Bearskin flashing at the seams to protect the wrap.

 

[skyking]

I've heard mixed opinions, but are you supposed to caulk the butted ends of the siding? Seems like it isn't actually required for warranty?

Seems like you did not RTFM like I did.
I do not care for the bearskin product and each seam has a metal flashing behind it.

 

[Micrornd]

I've never seen rubberized roofing designed for traffic, occasional use only. Is yours different or will you be using sleepers under decking?

 

[skyking]

I've never seen rubberized roofing designed for traffic, occasional use only. Is yours different or will you be using sleepers under decking?

Check out this link. It is a comparison of several of the manufacturers. Most are in BC.
https://citywidebuildingenvelope.ca...dekmaster-weatherdek-decking-dectec-deksmart/

It is a pretty informative article.

 

[skyking]

It's been a bit crazy. Bill and I cut in most of the trim yesterday, and then the gutter guys text me and say they will be there tomorrow.
YIKES!
I finished trim painting the corners that the downspouts are on, by cellphone light. I had to abandon finishing the windows.
The drip edge on the roof was too long and at 24 Ga, really difficult to work with. I had offered the lift, but I ended up operating it most of the day as we snipped and bent up the drip edge and got the gutters installed.
It happened so fast, I did not take a picture of completed paint before the gutters LOL.
Downspouts are Custom Built metals "storm gray"
Hello, meet Cascade Metals "Slate Gray" as paint matched by Rodda.




I stayed with a close-ish match to the roof color for the gutter itself, rather than a contrast.

 

[skyking]

Paint is done and the lift is off rent. I put snow bars all around.

 

[iRONic]

What is this ‘snow bar’ of which you speak?

 

[skyking]

What is this ‘snow bar’ of which you speak?

Google search for snow bars on metal roofs.
you want to keep the snow on and have it melt harmlessly.
It acts like an avalanche otherwise. It gets to that perfect slip face temperature and it comes off en masse, causing all sorts of damage and potential injuries.
It does not snow much there, but for this rare phenomenon where the continental cold Fraser River outflow from the mountains of British Columbia meets one of those pineapple express events *just right*, and it dumps 1~3'.
I spent about $250 on S5! clamps and solar rails. This is preferable to destroyed beds below the roof, broken basement windows, injuries. Ripped off gutters.
This little snow last year is typical.

But when it slid off the north roof onto the walkway, it re-froze and hung around for a week out there. No bueno.

the gutter moves that line out 5". Still a mess I want to minimize.

 

[iRONic]

I’ve seen them before but didn’t know what they were called. Thanks

 

[skyking]

there is an inch and a half where snow could slip by if it was a small accumulation. My hope is that little bit would snag on the gutter. if not I will screw on some extensions down closer to the roof.
Here is what they look like. In this instance we were using it as safety rail while siding, masking and painting the upper cupola.