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Building the Rooftop Deck Using Ipe
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Building the Rooftop Deck Using Ipe
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" If you look down the end of the block that's the Brooklyn Bridge where they created a boardwalk for pedestrians and bicycle us about ten years ago using a Brazilian. Hardwood. Known as I pay. And it's a sustainable product and one of the interesting things about. I averted that there are actual mineral particles in this wood that make it I'm palatable -- Things so anyway we're putting it down for the decking here -- the -- On our exterior space and Allan -- whose. During the countersink -- and the drilling is doing probably one of the most important parts of working with I think. If you can't drive nails through it it's so hard that if you try to drive nails through it you're just gonna bend your nails all the time. So. What you see is these -- the two man team here and pre drill the holes with one drill using just a regular bed. And then he's got another another cordless drill that's using a counter sinking -- And that way when you create the hole and the countersink all of the screws will be driven flat so that they. You know are flush with the surface of the wood. Now these are they're not galvanized -- is no they're coated special coated for outdoor use it. And -- a particular order number nine's. And this probably is very good product to use with the Iowa I'd say there's no less chance of splitting in this that your hard wood that. You don't have to worry about that too much. So we're just cutting. Quarter inch spacers. -- from what you've been split student get two or three out of -- that's what a way of maintaining uniformity. Throughout the decking. All right look this is gonna be major outdoor living space take a look at the the actual -- Decking joists which -- pressure treated but they've been ripped at an angle to correspond with the up the slope of the roof. And they're just -- with cedar which you can leave in place doesn't last forever. And then over here you've got the first step because because of the nature of the slope of the roof. We've got to have one step here than the decking continues for another ten feet they'll be an additional third level all the way to the back out right."
