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Hello, I’m designing a 6m by 2.4m deck which will be fixed via a ledger board to my house along the 6m length. The other 6m side will be supported by a beam which will be fixed to posts. What posts are best? I definitely don’t want to put timber in the ground. I’m thinking 1. Plastic posts - but these only come 100mm square and I don’t see much evidence of anyone using them. 2. Timber posts 100mm but can’t see any where these are recommend for a deck raised above 600mm 3. Timber posts 140mm as recommended in “TDCA Code of Practice Raised Timber Deck Structures on New Homes”, which is a great guide! The timber posts above to be fixed to a steel bracket with a concrete footing formed from some kid of tube (as in Quickcrete style in the USA). For the 100mm posts I don’t see any specs for spacing where as for the 140mm posts the TDCA guide has good info. Any thoughts? -
My house design has 2 deep, long balconies off the bedrooms on the upper floor. The decks have been designed with parapets; the build is by MBC Timber Frame and it will be a cold roof construction. The architect is doing all the necessary for building regs sign off and it's nearly there, but they are flapping about ventilation of the decks. Their concern is that the cold roof on the decks must be vented, but they don't want to put any vents through the vertical face of the cladding that will be on the outside of the parapet. As yet, I haven't seen the type of vent that they are trying to avoid, but does anyone have any other solutions for venting the roof other than going through the cladding? I've seen a few ideas where the air flow goes to the edge of the deck then up through the inside of the parapet, but I'm not sure if this would give sufficient air flow and achieve the necessary ventilation level. Any suggestions welcome.
