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