Sunk posts for support and attached railings.
Wooden deck over concrete porch.
Did a similar project with my son in law.
Originally it was.
This was the ultimate bad patio.
Whatever your reasons adding a wood floor to your concrete porch is a fairly simple operation.
Covered the porch useing your method but extended it across the front of the house.
Is your old concrete patio an eyesore.
Since our concrete was in good condition and would offer a solid base we decided to keep it and just cover it all with wood.
All cracked and spalling.
Built stringers for stairs matching existing stair run and used them to anchor stair treads.
Instead consider covering your aging concrete patio with decking.
He had a small concrete porch with six concrete stairs.
Set up a sleeper system.
It is also a good way to cover up peeling paint slight chipping and discolored concrete.
Completely demolish the concrete porch and build a 100 wooden one in its place or use the concrete as a base and just add wood on top of it.
My husband harrison and i have wanted to change out our patio floor since the day we bought the house.
Replacing the concrete deck with wood could have been done in one of two ways.
Conceal each anchor in decking with a plug cut from a composite decking board.
Over the 70 years since the concrete porch was poured the porch has moved and sunk a bit on the left side towards the front door and is no longer level.
An old cracked partially sunken concrete patio can be an eyesore if not a safety hazard.
Sweep decking clean of all debris.
Demolishing it and replacing it with new poured concrete is an economical but extremely labor intensive process.
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.
Severely cracked and cratered some areas raised by frost others sunken after 50 years of settling.
If you follow the white trim board at the bottom it s pretty obvious how unlevel the porch is.
Within a day our.
Homeadvisor s deck or patio guide compares difference between the two based on cost material wood concrete stone paver brick placement grond level versus raised resale value building installation cleaning and maintenace and extra features.
A sleeper system is a substructure made up of joists that sits on the surface of the concrete below the decking.
To install a composite deck over concrete you re going to need a sleeper system.
The two most common wood flooring choices for porches are 5 4 treated decking and traditional tongue and groove floorboards.
You can avoid the cost and mess of tearing it out by just screwing down wood sleepers and decking over it.