This customer had purchased this house only a couple of years earlier from someone who bought it as an investment and planned on “flipping” it. Well they apparently did much of the work themselves or hired people who didn’t know what they were doing because the waterproof deck began to leak. Whoever did it didn’t flash it properly, didn’t seal the seams properly, didn’t add a gutter, and didn’t install the railing properly. The homeowner was alerted to this fact by drywall damage in the living space below. So we were hired to seal it up and get it waterproof. We had to deal with the existing situation the best we could which involved extending the edge of the deck past the railing posts, adding flashing, adding a gutter, changing the design of the railing so water wasn’t running up against pickets, and finally waterproofing it. For this project we used a two part system consisting of Ames Elasto-barrier and Ames Safety deck waterproofing system. The final result isn’t exactly the most beautiful deck you have ever seen, that is just the nature of this product. It is however waterproof and that is what mattered most in this situation.