Trex RainEscape

[Dancing Dan]

I was drawing some ideas for using EPDM and uncured to keep an area below a deck dry for storage and stumbled upon Trex's RainEscape which looks essentially like a more user-friendly version of what I was thinking. Anyone use this system?

[philthegreek]

Dan,
Are you starting from scratch or retrofitting the deck?
I'm just finishing up a 1000 SF deck with a retrofitted EPDM system.
Raw materials were $1000, DekDrain wanted $6000 for their system. I used 60 mil EPDM and DekDrain is 40 mil.
My project would have been better if started from scratch, but that was not in the cards. The retrofit takes way more time.

Phil

[tjbnwi]

This is one I did using shower liner from Oatley;

https://picasaweb.google.com/tbadernwi/ScreenedPorch

This was on a strip and redo, it worked very well. I routed water to a lined wood gutter behind the beam and down through the post wrap.

Tom

[Pat_Mc1]

I was drawing some ideas for using EPDM and uncured to keep an area below a deck dry for storage and stumbled upon Trex's RainEscape which looks essentially like a more user-friendly version of what I was thinking. Anyone use this system?

Hello,

I am a representative of Trex and would be happy to answer any questions you may have about Trex RainEscapes.

Thank you,

Brittany

[e hilton]

Tom, how did you get the water to flow toward the gutter and not the other direction?

[kfc510]

Another option: here's a galvanized metal under-deck water diverter I did. No gutter in this case.

[tjbnwi]

Tom, how did you get the water to flow toward the gutter and not the other direction?

e,

Look at the first picture, you will see the liner was cut on a tapper. The narrow end was stapled to the top of the joist at the house side, the wide end was stapled to the top of the joist at the gutter end. The edges were aligned with the edge of the joist biased to the neighboring bays. This caused the liner to tapper away from the house, I believe I went 1/4" per foot.

The second picture is the house side, you can see the space between the bottom of the ledger and the bottom of the liner. Last picture shows the gutter end, much less space.

I am really bad about taking pictures as I work, so there are none of the gutter and flashings used at the ledger.

About 2 weeks after I did this, Atlanta had a major storm, not a drop of water below.

Tom

[e hilton]

I didn't realize you had cut individual strips of liner, that makes sense. I thought maybe you had draped a wide piece of liner across several joists.

[DonMirabito]

Dan,
You will find that TimberTech makes a similar product called DrySpace. All the brands "sort of kind of" work as it depends on how serious you are about being REALLY dry. Every brand I've ever seen will leak a little under various conditions. I have seen some funny stuff - like open space under the deck gets wet, NOT because overhead system leaks, but because the wind was blowing the rain sideways into the space. Duh...You gotta know your limitations...;-)

Don