It's been raining on my damn house for 3 days now with no roof. It's raining directly onto the second floor deck. Is this a problem? Is this just a fact of life? Will there be damage? What should I do? What *can* I do? The builder said he brushed on Thompson's water seal onto the floor deck. Does that help? Thanks. -John
Oh crap! Yer just gonna have to torch it and start over.
"Sasquatch"> wrote
You can drape a million dollars worth of tarps over it. Or do a reverse rain dance. I'll be going through the same thing next week. It rains like 4 mf around here and right now my truck is stuck in about a foot of pure mud where the driveway used to be. This is all new stuff to me. Onward.
Let it dry first!
relax. plywood/osb can take a lot of water--google "exposure 1 plywood." people will tell you how terrible it is, yet the only time i've heard of someone having trouble with a subfloor, the manufacturer paid to replace it. it ain't gonna melt in the rain.
Yeah, and that'll solve the stairway problem, too !!!!
Yeah, we're in the rainy season around here, too. But it beats the snowy season.
Do you want to compare crappy weather forecasts. Here's ours. You can't make up the crap.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers after midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 47. West wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday: Showers likely, mainly after noon. Cloudy, with a high near
Thursday Night: Periods of rain. Low around 40. Light wind becoming north between 13 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Friday: Periods of rain, mainly before noon. High near 48. Northwest wind between 11 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday Night: A chance of showers, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 35. West wind between 6 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday: A slight chance of showers before 8am. Partly cloudy, with a high near 51. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday Night: A chance of rain showers after 8pm, mixing with snow after 4am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday: Snow or rain showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near
Sunday Night: Rain showers mixed with snow showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 35. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Monday: A chance of snow or rain showers. Cloudy, with a high near 45. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Monday Night: A chance of snow or rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Tuesday: A chance of snow or rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 43. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tuesday Night: A chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around
Wednesday: A chance of snow or rain showers. Partly cloudy, with a high near 44. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
There may be damage, there may be not. You won't be able to tell for now. It'll be too late if damage is apparent later. Candidly, this has been going on for decades, before OSB was ever dreamed of. I've seen decks, 2nd floors, and roofs curl up with plywood. OSB bubbles.
Your temps are a little lower than here but the rest sounds about the same. Rain, rain, rain, sun, rain, rain, sun.........
I jumped in the truck to go to Lowes (don't ask, please) and the battery was dead.
So I grabbed my jump charger that hasn't been plugged in since I keft FL in March and ta-daaa, it fired right up. I threw it in reverse and immediately started spinning. Pulled forward a little hoping for some new real estate and started spinning again. Shit.
Fortunately there is a bulldozer and a skidloader in my front yard and the drivers suposed to come by in the morning to grade and gravel the drive so he can pull me out. Now where did I put my 30' loggin' chain?????
"Pat"> wrote
If he lets it dry he can open a tobbogan and ski store!
I'll be using OSB on my garage but only one side is waterproof, the shiney side. Unfortunately that is also the slipperyest side too.
Don, I'd double check that,
I installed OSB for a floor shiny side up and it went scaly from snow and stuff that I tracked in. I thought shiny side would be easier to sweep, but I think I made a mistake over-all. Ken
Ohboy, if you need a dozer now you'll need a crane at the spring thaw, nature is just warming you up. Btw Don, I heard the fella who bought your FL house was from Indiana :-). Cheer up, the long range forecast calls for sunshine in June 2007. Ken
Interesting, we wanted OSB but were advised plywood is better for exposure and about the same price as OSB. I wonder if the quality of plywood has been improving to stay competitive with OSB. Anyway, we've switched back to plywood, we'll see. Ken
OSB will take some rain, but it does swell and eventually appear damaged. Exterior plywood will last a little longer. The shiny side of OSB really isn't anymore water proof than the rough side. The shiny side goes down for ease of sliding into place on the roof rafter while the rough side goes up for ease of walking across without slipping after its screwed down. For less than $10- you can buy at Home Depot a huge roll of plastic sheeting that can take a little bit of weather. Stretch it tight and watch for puddling, which can result in catastrophic buckets of water being released when the plastic gives. Don't enclose the wood in plastic though or dry rot could occur. That's what I have stretched over my rafters right now, as my engineer contemplates his work which is 3 months in progress. I'm replacing the old warped rafters with engineered trusses, but we had to reinforce the foundation among other things. Ideally, a good long summer of drying the wood would be the best thing, it seems to me, since having bone dry wall studs before putting in insulation and covering with drywall and whatever exterior you use will help reduce mold problems. It's a good idea to push for completion of the roofing surface to at least the level of roofing felt right now before the major winter storms come.
Ken S. Tucker wrote:
That plastic sheeting (10' wide x 100') is a stock item around here, we also use tarps 30'x40' for $50 and thicker for more coin. Hear ya about wet studs, hopefully the wall breathes, but maybe a blast of propane heat for a day might be a good thing, if the studs are slimy. Ken
Maybe they were right about the lady bugs! Get out while you can!
Hmmm...I will check that out. I was just told last week by my brother, shiny side up. Regardless, I'll have black paper on the whole thing almost immediately. I've seen roofs sit for weeks in FL with OSB on and no felt and there were no problems. Where I'm at though the cold air combined with massive rain may make a fatal mix. BTW: I'm going to install blocking between the trusses at 48" centers. I never liked the idea that roof plywood is only nailed at the trusses. I want my plywood nailed on all 4 sides.
The grader dood came by this morning but it was raining and cold so we just stood on the porch and yapped. Tomorrow is supposed to be nicer so he'll come back, pull me out, and drop some 53 gravel in the drive, about 80 tons of it. Then I'll have some traction. My wife and son have been parking at the neighbors across the road.
I bought a 300,000btu propane heater that I'll use in the garage to help dry the studs and trusses after I have all the exterior sheathing on. I'm seriously considering sacrificial roof felt that I will replace in the spring. I have an aversion to installing shingles in real cold weather, I don't think they'll seal properly. I'd rather replace just the felt than the felt AND the shingles.
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