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   Piffin | Sep 06, 2002 05:20am | #1

   Here in Maine it was once very common before the days of PT, to use a 2" strip of 30# tarpaper on top of the joists like that.

   I've demoed quite a few of them and find that they have helped but if I were doing it in your case, I would use Ice and water shield nowadays because most of the rot I did find was centered around nails which penetrated the paper, letting water in.

   The bad part of this sceme is that the decking would rot from the bottom side where it was in contact with the tarpaper. Once it got wet, it couldn't dry. Demo involved the deckling coming up easy with the nails tearing through the wood and staying with the joist because the deck would be gone first.

   Hope this helps

   Excellence is its own reward!
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   JimR52 | Sep 11, 2002 05:26am | #4

   Piffin, you have a great idea with the snow and ice shield. What do you think about using he TREX decking product instead of redwood? It seems that if I can protect the framing long term with the snow and ice shield, any trapped moisture between the shield and TREX will not matter since the TREX will not rot.  What do you think?  I really appreciate your reply.

   JR

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   Piffin | Sep 11, 2002 05:34am | #5

   Good thinking, If you can stand to look at Trex. It sure beats getting PT slivers in your bare feet. Another way to look at it is to use PauLope' for the decking. It has rapidly become my favorite and has a lot of natural rot resistance. It is a beautiful wood that aint't bad in price.Excellence is its own reward!

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   ProDek | Sep 06, 2002 10:41am | #2

   I'm curious, why didn't your framer use incised pressure treated wood for framing?

   Bob

   "Rather be a hammer than a nail"

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   JimR52 | Sep 11, 2002 05:19am | #3

   Low bid and I wasn't watching closely enough.