Extending the roof width over the new deck? So it's done and we are happy enough with the deck but the weather and wind lately have been so strong that it is wet a lot of time with wind driver rain.
I should have made the roof a lot wider.
I could just put up a vinyl cafe blind but I think the best solution might be to admit I made a mistake and make the roof 1200 to 1800mm wider on each side and as deep as the existing deck.
Is the simplest way to do this is to sister in a new full width veranda beam over the 140 * 45 that is there now and add a post at each end?
Or is it simpler to use a deeper beam and a bigger overhang, say 190*45? Trouble being that the posts are on 2000mm centres and the existing beam is at the maximum allowable overhang already.
Rafters are 140*35, deck is 2400 deep and 2700 wide, deck itself is overbuilt.
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Our covered deck is 3.6m deep facing west, and we still sometimes get wind driven rain up to the back door threshold.
I added cafe blinds long ago and use them when required. Only vertical adequately defends horizontal rain.
A huge roof over a smallish deck looks a little like overkill, "pumpkin on a pimple", unless there is a defined use under the roof. IMHO
There is a step down to a small 1200*1200 landing on the West side of the deck; I should have continued the width of the roof to cover this area and it would have been simple then to use a vertical cafe blind at that position, I can't put a post at 1200 out tho as that would be right on top of the sewer drain from the bathroom.
You are right that a narrow roof extension 1200/1500 wide and 2400 deep will look stupid, functional but not pretty.
With the laundry still being in the driveway I should have thought about weather protection over the small step on the Eastern side too as the washing machine got saturated wet during the last storm.
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I'm going ahead with extending the roof area even if it will look a bit out of place. I just sistered another 140*45 to the veranda beam and now slowly digging a post hole.
I'll get The Boss to comment first before going and getting rafters and batten timber.
I had a 2400 length here so I'm using that and if needs be I'll cut it off later.
Luckily we have plenty of roofing here
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