Building A Wood Deck Over Concrete Porch
This part is relatively easy.
Building a wood deck over concrete porch. For a good conditioned concrete base building a raised deck is easy. One is to demolish your concrete patio completely and then build a wooden one as the replacement of concrete base. The remaining steps were all pretty simple if a bit time consuming. Concrete screws decking flashing tape plastic shims self leveling compound treated 2x4s.
And plenty of it. The material should be pretty obvious wood. Sweep decking clean of all debris. In our case we just had an old.
Building a wooden deck over a concrete one step 1. When you go buy your. Attach the wood composite decking to the top of the concrete stoop using the same masonry anchors. Conceal each anchor in decking with a plug cut from a composite decking board.
They will run perpendicular to the decking material. Fill in any spots where rainwater pools with either self leveling. First i washed the deck with some wood deck cleaner just to remove any leftover residue from processing. Or you can use the slab as the base of the deck and use wood as the top of this deck.
Thick pvc trim 3 16 x 3 1 4 in. I finished off the deck surface with a trim of 2 4 s to cover the ends of the sleepers and that was it. How to build a wood deck over a concrete patio step 1. The deck was in.
Check the drainage of the concrete patio.