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Reply With QuoteHaven’t looked at other details but first comment, up the joists to 45mm.
Deck Design Criticism. Point out my mistakes! It's time to design the deck for the back of my house. My little bungalow deck came out nicely so my confidence has grown, but criticism can't hurt before I go off to try and get a permit for it.
Consulted several span tables and came up with the below.
Wind Classification: N1 (I know this from when my bungalow was built)
5000 wide x 2000 deep
Deck
Bearers: 2/190 x 45 inner and outer
Outer Bearers will be M10 bolted to outside, notched 30mm in. Would this be better with one on each side, notched 10mm in per side?
Joists: 140 x 35; 416 centers
Posts: 100 x 100 Cypress; 100mm in from front, back and sides
Inner: 4 posts due to a gully trap right in the middle; 1879 centers for two middle ones, lower for the other two sides
Outer: 3 posts; 2375 centers
Will be concrete footings with galvanized anchors embedded. 400 deep x 300 wide
Roof
Beam: 190 x 45
Ledger: 90 x 45; will be coach bolted (?) to house which is timber
Rafters: 90 x 45; 555 centers
Highest post is 3403
Front:
Side:
Any and all criticism welcome! What have I stuffed up? What could be better,? Is it all good?
Thanks!
Haven’t looked at other details but first comment, up the joists to 45mm.
Would you consider going at least 3m rather than 2, especially when you have guests over.
Yep, Decks are like cowbells, you can't have too much of them, well maybe when it comes to upkeepOriginally Posted by phild01
Nice, will do, thanks!
Nah, we're going to flip this house. I didn't want to go too big, but not too small either. It's more to just pretty it up a bit and have somewhere to sit. The area is a hard sell, so I need some emotional hooks on the place to help things along. Diamond in the rough type thing. Thanks for the input though!
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Thanks, I did use the deck calculator in there. I did not know about all the other stuff though, that's amazing!
Something else I wanted to ask in my original post was thoughts on guttering for this deck? You can see the ground fall in the pics, so am wondering if it would be needed? I guess that would come down to the permit granters, though
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