Storage Shed Under a Deck | Rain Proof and Secure

[Music] foreign [Music] a watertight compartment while building my deck the key is using a system called rain escape by Trex which goes down before the ducking so that water can't get to whatever is underneath since it's watertight this means I now have a place to store my Toro and my electric wheel barrel and other yard tools that are taking up my garage space let me take you back to the beginning of this project which actually began on day one before this series I really wanted to utilize the underside of the deck to store things like my Toro mower so when demoing the stairs that used to be here I used my tractor with a box blade attachment to flatten the ground just a bit now let's fast forward a little bit because step two happened right after framing all the posts were set and all the joys going to the very far end where the ground has the largest slope giving me the most Headroom I call this The Tee Box because well it's my Tee Box it's so cool before decking goes on the system that will make the entire under Section watertight needs to go on it's called rain escape and is made by a company called Trex and it starts by installing something that looks like a large funnel so this is going to be called the downspout it looks like an oversized funnel you can see here and so all of these need to be installed at the end of each one of these stud bays and I'm just going to use a stapler in order to install it you can either use a slap stapler or an electronic electronic an electric one on each one of these sides there's a different orientation so you're going to cut this out if it's a 12 inch Bay and then this one out of it's a 16 inch base it's mine are in 16 I'm just going to use a razor in order to cut this out or actually Jacob's going to cut it out and then toss it to me and I'll install it these will later direct all the captured water down and away which I'll show you later the side Jacob is cutting out creates an opening for the water coming off the Tee Box section to be collecting easier and this is nice and easy to install if you're working off the ground like us a walkboard definitely helps the downspouts can be rotated if you have a smaller Bay like we do on the very end next is to roll out the liner that will cover each Bay this stuff comes and rolls already sized for standard spacing however note that it does cut down easy at a miter should you have a small Bay size the basic idea is you roll the liner out and then staple it down along the way and it's actually very quick and easy what made it tricky on my particular job is we're working 10 feet in the air so we're balancing on the joists the things to pay attention to here you're not only lining it up on either side with the joys but also creating a taper to direct the water towards the downspouts our system to do this was one of us would hold the existing portrait in tight while the other started at the far end to staple as I work my way back towards Jacob I'm slowly taking out more of the dip in the liner so that by the time I get to the end it's just slightly concaved after getting the rose finished in the same way and we laid down some Caulking and covered up the wood behind the downspouts by the way this stuff Cuts easy with a box blade next is to tape all of the seams with Trex joist tape if you've never worked with joyst tape it's very sticky which is great but it can be tricky to get it laid down in a straight line like this without creases a tip is to unroll a length with paper backing still on it then once it's lined up pull the backing off and just press the tape down the goal is to cover every seam so water can't get below no you can use this rain escape on your entire deck but I kept it contained to the area that I could walk under now we have a way to Wick water away from the porch then funnel it now now let's fast forward slightly to show you how it's collected so now whenever it's raining on the top of the deck it's gonna catch it move the water this way come down into the funnels down into the downspouts and then this gutter system is going to capture it now right now I don't have a tank in place because it's on order so I just have a downspout and then it goes out from underneath the deck making this entire compartment water tight allowing me to store my equipment in here however another thing that you could do which I will do in the future is place a tank and capture this water for my own use for like irrigating plants around the deck system before moving on if you're looking into options for watertight storage on the underside I'm using rain escape but on the top side I'm using patio well these very stylish boxes come in different sizes but I chose the 100 gallon size because it's the perfect size to store all of the cushions on my entire deck it has an area for a padlock if you need it and assistive lifting systems in the lid so that it won't slam shut check them out if you have a deck or porch with storable items now with the Tee Box being watertight it's a matter of closing up the side and I'm doing that with two giant doors and I start by building a frame for doors you don't have to over complicate them as you can see just rip down some treated material here into two by twos but it is Handy to do wider material wherever the hinges are going to be this is just a simple two by six now know that whenever you're building a door and you're going to be adding in a diagonal it does matter which direction the diagonal goes find the hinge side and put the low side of the diagonal on the hinge side and then go to the opposite corner by putting it this way this is going to be in compression instead of whereas this way this is going to be in tension what I like to do is just set things in place and then just measure for it and then I'll be able to go to the miter saw cut it and then pop it right in here's a representation on this diagonal actually working so Jake is applying pressure on what will be the hinge side and in this orientation it's in compression because this side of the Long Gate is always going to want to droop and you can see how this stays in whenever he applies pressure over there now let's flip it around and if you were to place the diagonal incorrectly and apply the same see how it's loose it's because the gate wants to naturally go like this so again just be aware that when you're placing the diagonal there is a correct direction that it goes foreign [Music] that looks like this and this might make us look like bad Carpenters but actually this is scribe to the landscape which I think is an advanced stuff here wonkiness is actually showing off some skills now we just got to get this up to the house so what we're doing here is placing placing the skates where there's an even reveal all the way around and then we're going to temporarily screw it to just some blocking to hold it up into place the objective here is to is to put it up so that we can have our hands free to skirt the outside of it so you can see here this is centered to this board and centered to this board because I really want the skirting to almost like camouflage it where it's just hidden within but then it's actually going to be two opening Swinging Doors there good yep after attaching the second door to the blocking next we brought in the last few Western red cedar boards to skin it now I'll tell you this folks it is a wonderful feeling starting a project with a full trailer of lumber and finally getting to the end of it yeah [Applause] Jacob and I decided to measure and cut in place leaving a gap on either hinge side using my favorite combo Square to get not only the top spacing for this first board set correctly but also the side spacing then nailed it in place so on this using the Senco 15 gauge but these are stainless steel nails where they're not going to leave the black straight once it rains what we're going to be doing is just laying a full board all the way across and then afterwards coming back with the circular saw and then making these two cuts [Music] see this goes quick and easy to give you a time check the rain escape took us about four hours to install then these doors took about three [Music] the sloping ground continues to hit with complications but it's nothing a grinder and demo Hammer couldn't fix I'm having to remove this or I would have to make this slope so much bigger so that it doesn't interfere with the gate I'm gonna go through and now attach the hinges on both the left and the far right while Jacob comes through the center and cuts in the opening foreign [Music] by the way this is the same nail slicer blade I put in the saw at the very start of the project I had a few more on hand in case I needed to replace it but even after three weeks of hard work it's still making Great Cuts [Music] Jake did set the depth of the blade so only cutting through the skirting boards here and not the framing [Music] now so I'm from the blocking guess who pulled the Short Straw and just like that folks another cool project on the deck is dime now there are a few ways to handle the bottom profile but I've kept it with the same thing we've been doing with the rest of the deck and that's describe it along the slope all right so on this gate this Hillside the land floats so much that I didn't want this board to go along with the door because I would have to carve out so much more land and I just don't want to do that so then the alternative was to leave that board completely off and it looked bare whenever it was closed so instead I'm just going to do this to where I'm just going to have one to step over uh and then this be my drivable door and then this be my walk over door that is too cool if you were wanting to waterproof your deck then absolutely look into the rain escape system and then you saw how simple making doors could be stay tuned for the rest of the series where I'm going to show you yet another Cool Storage trick and if you've missed a series so far then definitely go back and check it out up to this point I will see you soon [Music]

Channel: April Wilkerson

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Id: E6iJKExfVh8

Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 04 2023