Need a sanity check for anyone who's done anything like this.
We have a small deck on the back of our house with two doors that exit the home onto it. We've had issues with these doors/framing rotting, and I suspect it's due to water splashing up off the deck onto the door/frame (it's very obviously covered in splashed water after rainstorms). I've corrected some issues we've had with the gutters leaking, but it hasn't fixed the problem. As such, I'm looking for more of a blunt-force solution to the problem; cover the deck entirely.
The deck itself covers a rather large area, but is only about 4" off the surrounding concrete, and made of some kind of boarding, it looks/feels like plastic but could just be some peculiar coating. Under it is 2x4's or 2x6's end-up. My notion was to build something akin to the following (sans the dog), placed directly on the deck, no anchoring:
I'd use 4x4's for the primary posts, probably 3 at the low point, two on the high point; the center of that back post would be where a door is. I could do four on the back for structural reasons if necessary. 2x4's for the roofing, maybe 1x2's for the cross-beam things that hold the plastic corrugated roof if I needed to keep the weight down. And of course, the plastic corrugated roof.
My plan was to build it so the peak of the plastic was just up underneath the gutters, so literally any water from either the gutters or rain would slough off the deck entirely, eliminating my concerns about the doors rotting.
My concerns:
We get decent winds, though most of them come from a direction that this would be protected from. Regardless, should I concern myself with that corrugated roof ripping straight out of the screws? Should I be using some girthy washers to hold it in place, or reconsider the mounting situation?
I suspect with that much bracing it'd be fine with snow weight right?
If I place the whole thing directly on the deck, and place it in a way so the 4x4's are on a section of the deck which has a 2x4 on-end underneath, do you think it'll hold the weight + snow without cracking the deck board? These hold the weight of people, deck chairs, and everything else under the sun and I haven't had to worry about them yet. I'd much rather not tear the deck apart/start cutting boards to facilitate putting the 4x4's through to whatever's underneath.
Please feel free to critique/call me an idiot for considering this as an option, or give me a simpler/cheaper option for fixing my door rot problems.
We have a small deck on the back of our house with two doors that exit the home onto it. We've had issues with these doors/framing rotting, and I suspect it's due to water splashing up off the deck onto the door/frame (it's very obviously covered in splashed water after rainstorms). I've corrected some issues we've had with the gutters leaking, but it hasn't fixed the problem. As such, I'm looking for more of a blunt-force solution to the problem; cover the deck entirely.
The deck itself covers a rather large area, but is only about 4" off the surrounding concrete, and made of some kind of boarding, it looks/feels like plastic but could just be some peculiar coating. Under it is 2x4's or 2x6's end-up. My notion was to build something akin to the following (sans the dog), placed directly on the deck, no anchoring:
I'd use 4x4's for the primary posts, probably 3 at the low point, two on the high point; the center of that back post would be where a door is. I could do four on the back for structural reasons if necessary. 2x4's for the roofing, maybe 1x2's for the cross-beam things that hold the plastic corrugated roof if I needed to keep the weight down. And of course, the plastic corrugated roof.
My plan was to build it so the peak of the plastic was just up underneath the gutters, so literally any water from either the gutters or rain would slough off the deck entirely, eliminating my concerns about the doors rotting.
My concerns:
We get decent winds, though most of them come from a direction that this would be protected from. Regardless, should I concern myself with that corrugated roof ripping straight out of the screws? Should I be using some girthy washers to hold it in place, or reconsider the mounting situation?
I suspect with that much bracing it'd be fine with snow weight right?
If I place the whole thing directly on the deck, and place it in a way so the 4x4's are on a section of the deck which has a 2x4 on-end underneath, do you think it'll hold the weight + snow without cracking the deck board? These hold the weight of people, deck chairs, and everything else under the sun and I haven't had to worry about them yet. I'd much rather not tear the deck apart/start cutting boards to facilitate putting the 4x4's through to whatever's underneath.
Please feel free to critique/call me an idiot for considering this as an option, or give me a simpler/cheaper option for fixing my door rot problems.
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