For your home your plan sounds good. If you want you can wait around for more comments, perhaps someone else might see it differently. Good Luck All the Best The Porch Guy Here is a link that might be useful: My album

Flashing goes behind the siding, over the ledger, counter flashing( two piece) is not needed, 6'' L flashing is all your gunna need, The ledger is fastened directly to the rim joist. John

The flashing should tuck behind the siding. Before you install the ledger, the siding is removed, Z-flashing is installed at the bottom to go behind the ledger and over the siding below. Sticky membrane goes behind the ledger. Another piece of flashing tucks behind the siding above and covers the top of the ledger, with a drip edge extending slightly past the ledger. Then the ledger gets installed. If you are worried about the screws penetrating the flashing, use sticky membrane on the top of the ledger board between the metal flashing. The way it is flashed now, the T-111 siding will rot out in a few years, and then the rot spreads to the framing. Good luck fixing the siding when it is installed behind the ledger board of the deck! And keep in mind that is going to be the area with the rot problem! Fortunately you haven't completed the deck yet, and it won't be an impossible task to do the ledger correctly. When laying the deck, with Ipe boards, I like to snap lines every 16" to maintain straight lines. Every other board has one side or the other land on a line. The 16" works out perfect if the decking is 5 1/4" wide, and you are leaving 3/32 gaps. Even if the decking isn't perfect, which is pretty common to have some variance in width, the 16" lines help keep you on the right track.

Installing one inch foam to a wall may save you some energy dollars, but it will also make your windows deeply recessed. Consider that appearance before you add depth to the walls. A recessed window is usually an invitation to leaks. When installing more than the weather barrier, it's a good idea to consider a build-out around windows and doors. Wall filled insulation is more value for your money. A weather barrier over plywood or OSB is very sufficient. Roofers felt AND a Tyvek is overkill. I would be more concerned that flashings are used where needed, not a layer of felt. The Vinyl Siding Institute has valuable information for you to read about weather barriers, flashings and sheathing. Michael Here is a link that might be useful: Vinyl Siding Institute