Outdoor Bar Entertainment – Wind break wall

Outdoor Bar

Since part of the out door bar is under a deck, when it rains it pours… So to make this part more weather proof I have use some “PVC Core Flute Plastic” and a ton of Modified silicon to seal it in between the joists to catch the water from the upper deck, and angled down to drain out over the “corrugated clear light”

This is stage one of water proofing the bar area using PVC core flute angled to drain the water down and out over the side. I also had to about use 20 million gallons of modified silicon. Stage two will be to actually get some lino and lay it on the upper deck which will stop most of the water coming through, the PVC will catch the remainder. Stage 3 if any is getting through then is it will still have to come through 12mm H3 treated ply which will be painted and sealed. But I can see even stage one on its own catching and stopping 90% of the water leaks. (I have been putting it up when it rains to see the leaks… and at present in average rain it is PDG (Pretty Darn Good)

Outdoor Bar – Wiring

Starting of the wiring up. Kind of means I have to make my mind up where things are going.

Outdoor Lighting

Its all go around here

Waterproofing

Since the bar is built under a deck and the deck above was not designed to have a water proof room below it, we had to come up with a way to stop and drain the water away from the new room and bar area under this deck. I came up with idea of a three stage process.

Stage one was using the PVC core flute to catch and drain the out from under the deck. Whilst this catches most of the water it is impossible to catch it all because the the upper deck was added to the house and wasn’t to have anything below it.

Stage two and the most important one basically stop the water on the other side of the deck and drain it off the side, to do this we put a layer of polyethylene, then a layer of H3 treated plywood so we can then put down a layer of PVC lino. This is a double layer of water proofing with the polyethylene and lino (both being PVC) The ply is just purely there to make the lino easier to lay on a flat surface. It also means it won’t crease to the shape of the deck. Finally we will put a layer or outdoor carpet this is because wet lino is slippery and not as attractive as carpet. Basically the carpet is the fake grass looking stuff, but grey instead of green.

The final stage is the ceiling itself, if by chance any water gets through this, the ceiling is H3 treated ply not GiB, or MDF or the like… so it can handle a little bit of water. But since stage two has been done I have not seen any sign of water coming from the upper deck and am confident of it working.

All wood used including the ply is H3.2 treated and therefore can handle getting wet without rotting.

French Doors

Interior – No longer an out door bar

No longer really classed as an out door bar because it is now fully enclosed, whilst far from finished it is now starting to look like a fun place. We have are ready had a few gatherings, laughs and served a few drinks here. Me and my partner have had dinner down here a few times over summer and well it is now a usable spot.

Painted

Finally doing parts behind the bar… well it is my birthday so what better place to be doing stuff on… behind the bar…

The Bar

It has come a long way since is original build as just a bar on a patio that we had just done and then build the deck. Now a nice place to relax in and have a few drinks… (good thing is not too far to walk home.) There were times where I thought I would not be able to get it done, but it is finished and is a great spot.

We were going for the modern rustic look, modern with the finished painted look, but rustic since we used ply and not GiB, and did not fill in any of the imperfections etc… instead of filling any gaps in between the ply joins we used thin strips of wood etc… We believe we achieved the look… Tell us what you think of it.