Deck with very limited clearance

[seriph1]

Batu is (bloody) hard - drilling is easy

[deucer]

Archio,
I was very pleased to find this thread of yours re: your low clearance deck as I'm currently doing the same thing in Perth. It's confirmed for me that I'm on the right track.

I've decided to do it a little differently, mounting 90x45mm treated pine joists directly to 300mm galv steel stirrups cemented into the sand and attached to 90x45mm treated pine ledgers coach screwed to the house (galv screws of course). Stirrups are spaced at 1.05 metres and joist span is 465mm (just how it worked out after refering to building standards). 85mm jarrah decking boards go on top of the joists (obviously), level with the height of the top brick course.

Did you check with your council re: constructions standards or approvals required?

Would like to see the pics you mentioned you had.


Cheers,
Deucer.

[Greg_stewy]

Hi all,
I was just watching a show on the ABC last night,New Inventors, where there was a guy who had invented a "Nail-less" decking system.
An exampole he showed was putting decking straight onto concrete. Might be worth a look at for you all that only have very small spaces.

Greg.

[seriph1]

saw it too, just before nodding off and missing the rest of the show GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (it was at 10:00 via satellite that I watched it, out of Perth)

I "believe" there is a similar product in the US that I saw on This Old House (another GRRRR but that's another story), but no matter - it looked like a great idea!

no idea where it is available though

[Greg_stewy]

look at link

http://www.abc.net.au/newinventors/txt/s1242476.htm

for more info...

[seriph1]

and dont forget to look to the right side for more funky ideas

[archio]

I am very sorry I forgot to post the images - the deck was 'just' finished before our wedding / honeymoon, which proved to be a busy time

Unfortunatly, I took some photos during construction, and I can't find them

So I took some photos this morning to give people an idea of what the finished (well nearly, just have to 'clean up' a few things ) product we were after looks like.

Thanks again everyone for the wonderful advice.

[archio]

Archio,

Did you check with your council re: constructions standards or approvals required?

Spoke to council ( Swan, we live in Ellenbrook ) had no problems since the height of the deck is literally ground level. I can't remember the height that did require council approval, but obviously we werent even close

cheers

[deucer]

Thanks Archio. Deck looks good mate. well done!

Cheers,

Deucer