How To Lay Decking On A Balcony
The floor joists inside the home are extended outside beyond the walls of the house to support the deck floor.
How to lay decking on a balcony. If playback doesnt begin shortly. Once the primer dries apply the geo-textile on all edges and seams on the plywood deck roof or balcony. Screening the balcony in keeps pesky mosquitoes and flies out.
A balcony provides valuable outdoor living space with some built-in protection from the elements but an open one does nothing to keep insects at bay. Dremel - Laying a Deck on your Balcony. Often these proprietary systems are highly modified versions of the F103 system allowing precipitation to drain away from the tile.
Next use 1⅝ decking screws to secure the base to the wood screwing through the rubber and into the back of the wood. Remember to only dimple the rubber with the screw head or. Feb 24 2017 - Explore Annette Kellys board second floor balcony deck on Pinterest.
As a general rule you want a clearance of at least 50mm for aluminium joists and 60mm for timber joists. Use the Liquid Rubber Deck Coating under the textile to stick it to all seams. Allow expansion gaps of 10-15mm between each length of timber batten if more than one length required.
Installing your deck on a flat roof is really that simple. My balcony is roughly 9 feet by 5 feet so I needed two packs of grass squares and three packs of wood squares. There are 9 squares per pack and each square about a square foot.
Clean off the dust then apply the primer to the entire surface with a large paint brush. Fix a timber batten noggin at intervals of 12m. The strength of the joists in the balcony are dependent on a considerable backspan of the same joists into the structure generally a minimum of three times the length of the joists exposed at the balcony.