So the plan yesterday was to get all of the risers sleepers attached to the porch.
Extend concrete patio with wood deck.
First i washed the deck with some wood deck cleaner just to remove any leftover residue from processing.
Extending and painting the cement pad.
Pouring additional concrete can get expensive.
There are reasons that you might decide that your deck really ought to be a patio.
The plan itself seemed pretty straightforward and i d need about 15 risers.
An alternative to pouring more concrete is extending the concrete patio with pavers.
I finished off the deck surface with a trim of 2 4 s to cover the ends of the sleepers and that was it.
A deck extension is not difficult to build.
Permits are required in many areas to pour concrete and that usually involves hiring a contractor driving the cost of this project into the thousands.
With the flat concrete patio for example you could do a very attractive extension by stepping up from the concrete to a wood or composite deck which again would serve a different use from the.
For a top grade manufactured product.
First you have to attach risers sleepers to the concrete and then the porch boards can be screwed to the risers.
The remaining steps were all pretty simple if a bit time consuming.
The stakes should be strong and push against the frame.
Decking ranges from about 1 50 per sq.
Continue lining the lumber on the perimeter until they are the same level as the current patio you are extending and make sure they re level.
Hammer wooden stakes outside the frame so that they provide support when you pour the concrete into the form.
Extending a porch to the size of a deck or patio could be far more expensive.
Essentially it is an added section supported by part of the existing structure.
Replacing a deck with a patio.
Patios can safely support or surround larger features such as an in ground pool or outdoor kitchen.
The new section can either be a step up or a step down.
Also we chose to extend on either side of the existing concrete so we wouldn t have to disturb any of the existing sprinkler heads that were in front of the concrete space since we have a sprinkler system in the front and back.
To save on time and money we left the existing concrete slab.
The cost of building a patio deck depends mostly on the decking you choose.
For treated wood to more than 10 per sq.
The deck was in.