Building a wooden deck over a concrete one step 1.
Building a wood deck over concrete porch.
Fill in any spots where rainwater pools with either self leveling.
Concrete screws decking flashing tape plastic shims self leveling compound treated 2x4s.
For a good conditioned concrete base building a raised deck is easy.
You can build a raised deck over concrete base in two ways.
And plenty of it.
In our case we just had an old.
One is to demolish your concrete patio completely and then build a wooden one as the replacement of concrete base.
First i washed the deck with some wood deck cleaner just to remove any leftover residue from processing.
Sweep decking clean of all debris.
Check the drainage of the concrete patio.
The material should be pretty obvious wood.
Conceal each anchor in decking with a plug cut from a composite decking board.
How to build a wood deck over a concrete patio step 1.
Plan the layout of your sleepers.
This part is relatively easy.
Or you can use the slab as the base of the deck and use wood as the top of this deck.
Preparation and installing runners and skirts.
The remaining steps were all pretty simple if a bit time consuming.
When you go buy your.
I finished off the deck surface with a trim of 2 4 s to cover the ends of the sleepers and that was it.
The deck was in.