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