Balcony wall and surface

Time to start on that balcony wall.

I used my planer to put a crown on it to help encourage water to drain off instead of just sitting there.

It goes higher than the roof so I don't need to make a railing for this side, and also privacy.

Gotta add some wiring for an outlet.

It actually looks like a real wall with the sheathing now.

The skid steer makes this so much easier.

I'll be doing a rubber roof here since it's pretty flat, but I've never done that before and it's getting close to the minimum temperature for installing it, so I'll just do it next year and use a few layers of plastic for now.

I got some pressure treated 2x6's and cut them on a slope so the decking is flat.  I'll be doing composite that matches with the front and back porches, so I'm just doing cheap wood for now.

This should be good enough for the winter.

Balcony framing

This post is longer than the other 2 so I had to get my dad to come help me get it up.

Have somewhere to put the joists in now.

Here's the beam I assembled for between the 2 posts on the other side.

Mounted the extra supports on the sides.  My engineer friend said to use 3 carriage bolts on each plus a strong construction adhesive, and notch into the posts so there is enough surface area for the beam that goes across.  Thinking about this now, I probably should have just ripped the hole deck off the house and then extended the foundation and built normal walls with large window holes in them... Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

Beam is installed along with the hurricane brackets for the joists.

Most of the joists are in.

Sheathing is going on.  It has a slope of 1/4" per foot.

It was supposed to rain so I had to cover it.

Lots of stuff for a bonfire on the farm one of these days.

Roofing

First thing is to put down that membrane stuff.  I wanted one that was supposed to be waterproof, and all that was in stock was this weird stuff that almost had an asphalt shingle like coating on it.  It was really slippery because of all the sand stuff that was on it that it was really good at shedding.

At least the shingles aren't very slippery.  When I was buying the shingles I thought I got the right color, but clearly not... Well I guess I need to re-shingle the rest of the roof now too.

I couldn't find the right kind of flashing anywhere so I ended up just buying a roll of aluminum flashing and bending it myself.

And now for the house wrap.