Stocking up on supplies to get ready for our roof work, we make a visit to the fabric department at our local "Big Box" discount store and get enough nylon mesh for our roof and also prevent a number of tragically ugly prom dresses from being made at the same time. The nylon mesh will go on the roof as a finish layer as part of our "meshcrete" concrete lamination technique.
To get our wheelbarrows full of cement across the insulating foam board decking without busting it up, we lay down a runway of 1x8 boards.
We have four sepas (water drainage holes through the parapet wall on the roof) that all require a more flexible substrate material than the rigid insulating foam board paneling will provide. We buy sheets of flexible foam packing material in various thicknesses which are flexible enough to bend and shape to fit the bent wire decking beneath the roof.
Low pitch roofs often use what are called "crickets" to help channel rain runoff towards the drainage system. Here, we are placing foam layers in the corners, which we want to be higher than the drainage points from the roof. The ferrocement for the roof will go over the top of these crickets. We have these placed at strategic spots all across the roof.
Since we'll be pouring concrete for the roof, we have to get all the holes that will pierce the roof taken care of as part of our prep work. Standpipes for the waste water system, vents for the masonry heaters and a hole for the whole-house fan have to be done before the cement goes into place. Are we done yet?
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