I want my decking to run perpendicular to my house to shed water, but the only plans I can seem to find make it a detached deck, with two girders. My design is simple, 25 ft long along the house, 8 ft wide projecting from the house. Would love to not have to dig the extra footers, and just have one girder. Can someone help me with some insight, or some vocabulary to help me search out this design?
I'm needing to cut the bottom of my vinyl siding to make room for my deck ledger board. Obviously a starter strip won't work, j channel seems like it would only collect the water, how would one terminate/ trim this edge out?
I've got this stepped stepped foundation wall/ crawl space kind of situation where I have bare Earth behind a black wall in my basement. I want to put plastic down under the topsoil, to divert any surface water away into a French drain. However, I don't want to lock the dampness into that wall/ into my house. Is there a product that will divert surface water, but also not lock the dampness in? Here's a picture of where I want to put the French drain. I can't put it right up against the house because there's a footing that comes out from where the old porch used to be, and it doesn't seem to make sense to dig below the footer seeing as it's stepped, and there's bare Earth on the other side of the wall.