skotl
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Wife: "I want a deck"
Me: "Cool - leave it to me - how hard can it be?"
Turns out the answer is "harder than you thought"!
I might be over-thinking this but I'm stumped as to how extreme to make the substructure. There are a few written instructions online - loads of videos, but not great reading material - and they seem to either be overly-simplistic or assume that you're a structural engineer.
The deck is going to be around 6m by 4m, and 50cm off the ground. I get that there will be concreted posts with support beams traversing the posts, in the same direction as the boards.
Then the "rafters" (not correct word!) would go on top of the supports.
Here's my two main assumptions / questions:
Are they, broadly speaking, the right factors to be using?
Me: "Cool - leave it to me - how hard can it be?"
Turns out the answer is "harder than you thought"!
I might be over-thinking this but I'm stumped as to how extreme to make the substructure. There are a few written instructions online - loads of videos, but not great reading material - and they seem to either be overly-simplistic or assume that you're a structural engineer.
The deck is going to be around 6m by 4m, and 50cm off the ground. I get that there will be concreted posts with support beams traversing the posts, in the same direction as the boards.
Then the "rafters" (not correct word!) would go on top of the supports.
Here's my two main assumptions / questions:
- The main posts would be around 2m apart
- The "rafters" would be around 60cm apart
Are they, broadly speaking, the right factors to be using?