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   dIrishInMe | Jul 30, 2005 03:59pm | #1

   First, welcome to BT!!

   You said >> Problem is it's a 30 foot run and we can only raise one end about two inches. The deck is pitched away from the building, but now there is an addition in front of it creating a knee wall or railing. <<

   I find that statement confusing.  Not getting a mental picture here... Can you make a quick sketch in "paint" or some other drawing program and post it?
     

   Matt
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   islandreno | Aug 01, 2005 04:02am | #3

   Sorry about the confusion.

   Imagine yourself walking out a set of double doors onto a covered porch. You step down two inches. To your left about ten feet away the deck meets a section of rubber roof that wraps around a turret, this rubber roof has 5/4 decking on 1&1/2 sleepers. To your right the deck extend about 20 feet and turn 90 degrees to your right again. Directly in front of you is a knee wall or closed railing to which the deck is pitched to, (maybe a couple of inches). Originally water could drain off the deck in a normal fashion, away from the building. Presently there is an addition on the other side of the railing therefore blocking the drain path. There is actually rolled roofing laid up the railing wall. So water happens to sit and now is leaking into the addition below. I have thought  about adding drains but thought if I could build up the right to match the existing decking and sleeper and pitch to the left i could avoid penetrations( the drains). Problem is If i use rubber I think i should really protect it with a deck. I heard of a vinyl product from Dec-K-Ing, I've never used it but it says you wouldn't have to cover it, and it durable use is fifteen to twenty years. This building is on an island in Maine and faces south at a stones throw from the ocean. I hope that give you a better idea what i'm up against.  Thank, islandreno

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   Ray | Aug 01, 2005 05:25am | #4

   Builders in Idaho are using "Rinohide", paint-on truck bed liner on decks and porches.  Claim it lasts forever and is impervious to weather & holds up really well to foot traffic.  (no, I haven't tried it yet)

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   dIrishInMe | Aug 01, 2005 05:46am | #5

   I gotcha now.  I really don't have much experience with flat roofs, but my first guess would be EPMD as Piffin said.  The thing that is cool about EPMD is that you should be able to get a piece that covers the whole shebang with no seams. 

   BTW - Listen to Piffin - not only is he an x-roofer turned builder, but he is your neighbor - although I guess Maine probably has about a thousand islands...

    Matt

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   Piffin | Aug 01, 2005 06:26am | #7

   counting all the rocks, I think it's closer to three thousand 

    

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   islandreno | Aug 01, 2005 06:46am | #8

   Thanks for your help!

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   islandreno | Aug 01, 2005 06:47am | #9

   Thanks for your help!!

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   Piffin | Aug 01, 2005 06:24am | #6

   That "railing wall" is called a parrapet wall 

    

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   Piffin | Jul 31, 2005 05:37am | #2

   Get it done with EPDM. Two inches gives you half the minimum recommendeed 1/8" per foot, so tel the openers that they have you boxed into an impossible situation, but this is their best bet. No warrantee, but a decent chance of it working.

    

    

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