You would then place your wood porch flooring over the sleepers.
Building a deck over concrete porch.
For this reason rainwater can.
At first you have to plan a layout.
If you re installing two different colors of boards for your deck then you can screw the accent color boards into place temporarily to act as guides for the primary color boards.
Apply foam adhesive to back of trim.
When you go buy your.
Ripping up concrete and building a deck seemed like a daunting and expensive task so when we saw newtechwood deck a floor we thought it would be absolutely perfect for our space.
How to build a wood deck over a concrete patio step 1.
Within a day our.
Plan the layout of your sleepers.
Solve the water problems.
A floating composite deck.
Concrete screws decking flashing tape plastic shims self leveling compound treated 2x4s.
My husband harrison and i have wanted to change out our patio floor since the day we bought the house.
In our case we just had an old.
The material should be pretty obvious wood.
Installing deck flooring on a cement patio.
Thick pvc trim 3 16 x 3 1 4 in.
You could only do this if there is sufficient space between the existing slab and your door otherwise the flooring would prevent the door from opening.
Steps to build a raised deck over a concrete patio plan a layout.
Fill in any spots where rainwater pools with either self leveling.
Mark the location of the sleeper on the concrete patio.
They will run perpendicular to the decking material.
Building a wooden deck over a concrete one step 1.
To cover the ends of the sleepers install deck fascia board.
In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to deck over a concrete stoop.
Check the drainage of the concrete patio.
3 tips for building a deck over concrete in recent years it s become more and more common for homeowners to reconsider their concrete patios for something more attractive and easier to maintain.
If not opting for the interlocking deck tiles you ll need to place sleepers on both surfaces.
And plenty of it.
Counterbore holes in pvc trim with inch diameter spade bit.
Another option of course is to remove the concrete entirely and rebuild the porch from the ground up.
Most of the time the patio corner had settled by many years.
Preparation and installing runners and skirts.