So the plan yesterday was to get all of the risers sleepers attached to the porch.
Wood deck over concrete porch.
Try this method to beautify the entrance to your home.
Advantage hardwood deck tiles are made from south american hardwoods proven to last up to 75 years or more.
Have an ugly concrete step and porch.
Installing the deck tiles is simple with deckwise deck tile connectors you simply just click them together.
Ft so your total cost could be anywhere from 3 to 12 per sq.
For a top grade manufactured product.
Drill pilot holes a maximum of 24 inches apart along the sleeper using a hammer drill to drill through the wood and into the concrete inch to inch deeper than the length of your screws.
They are one of the few products you can install directly over old concrete patios and porches.
Sleepers are apparently the name for the beams supporting the deck surface laid directly atop the concrete.
Since our concrete was in good condition and would offer a solid base we decided to keep it and just cover it all with wood.
The cost of building a patio deck depends mostly on the decking you choose.
The other materials for this project add up to about 1 50 per sq.
They run perpendicular to the actual deck boards and elevate the surface slightly allowing the decking to avoid contact with the ground.
Covering a concrete porch with wood provides a warmer cozier feel.
It is also a good way to cover up peeling paint slight chipping and discolored concrete.
While you don t have one of those you can still make your concrete porch look like wood by putting wood boards over it like the designer of the porch in this picture.
The porch floor looks like solid wood because it is though you can see concrete underneath.
Covering your concrete porch with wood provides a warmer feel.
Whatever your reasons adding a wood floor to your concrete porch is a fairly simple operation.
For looks and durability we used two different.
First you have to attach risers sleepers to the concrete and then the porch boards can be screwed to the risers.
Replacing the concrete deck with wood could have been done in one of two ways.
Drive concrete screws into each hole with an impact driver.
Completely demolish the concrete porch and build a 100 wooden one in its place or use the concrete as a base and just add wood on top of it.