Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 23, 2009 9:43 pm hi All, Just have a question I'm hoping someone can help me with. Our new house that is being built has a rear covered 1st floor deck with an alfresco area underneath. Ive noticed that the level of the deck is about 20 cm lower than the inside floor. I asked the builder if this level is to come up when they lay tiles etc. He said it will come up about 5cm or so. That still leaves the floor about 6 inches lower than the inside floor and doesnt appear to be as per the approved plans. One of the brickies told me that unless the deck is timber it must be lower than the inside floor to stop water coming in as there is no place for the water to go like there is with timber decks. My thoughts are maybe a couple of centimetres but not 6 inches !! The builder told me he would check it out but is yet to give me an official response. Does anyone know what the go is here ? Im not sure if this is true or not. Re: Is my deck right ? 3Jun 24, 2009 7:23 am Thanks for that. The step down is definitely less than 190mm. The thing is that the plans show the deck height as the same as the inside floor. Im trying to figure out if it is a plan error or a construction error. The brickies opinion that it has to be that way to stop water coming inside if the deck floods ? Is that fair dinkum ? The deck is covered. Im not sure that situation would ever occur. Re: Is my deck right ? 4Jun 24, 2009 6:28 pm If its a tiled deck the floor should be sloped to allow water runoff away from the house Re: Is my deck right ? 5Jun 24, 2009 8:05 pm Spoke again to my builder today. he is saying that it is an error with the plans that showed the deck at the same height as the inside floor. His explanation is that he can only take the level of the deck to the level of the flashing underneath the stacker doors. If he took it up any higher any water on the deck would apparently not be able to escape. He is going to take it up as high as he can but we'll still be left with about 10cm or so step. I am disappointed by it. I really have no reason not to believe him. He has been in my opinion completely honest with me in our dealings so far. Thats my take on things anyway. If anyone knows to the contrary I would be keen to hear about it. Re: Is my deck right ? 8Jul 06, 2009 3:05 pm Hello! We're having much the same discussions with our builder at the moment, Phil wants to have that 'seamless' look between indoors and the alfresco (where the alfresco floor is about the same height as the living room floor), and our builder told me that we'll have an 8cm step down from the internal slab to the alfresco. We're having the alfresco tiled. We've seen the 'seamless' look in many display homes. . . he's telling us that we need a step so that water will not enter the house (e.g. if we have shocking rain or decide to hose down the alfresco). We don't want to order him to make the gap smaller if it's going to potentially allow water damage to the living room floor. . . help! I'm putting a new floor in my kitchen, slate flagging on a standard concrete slab. I have allowed for a bed thickness of up to 20mm to accommodate the different… 0 17543 They using concrete or timber sleepers? Timber or steel uprights? Any drainage behind sleeper? 3 5891 Thanks for that, the PVC pipe is still about 40cm below ground level and it sticks out of the sand with no end cap or anything on it just open pipe, is this the finished… 2 10474 |