Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum 1 Jun 18, 2013 12:58 pm I posted this in the renovation category and then saw the owner-builder section which is where this belongs... Hey there great site, first post here. I built a deck a couple of years ago and it's not used due to the usually cold Melbourne weather. I built a steel frame supporting the deck out of 90x90mm gal SHS posts with gal RHS joists and bearers. It was all built to standards/regulations and got a permit for it. The deck also has a colourbond roof over it attached to the house that i got someone else to build. So as an owner-builder I'm looking to convert this space to an extension of the brick veneer house like a rumpus room/kids area that would be sealed from the weather. It's a rectangle area of about 8x4m. The house makes up for 3 walls so there is only one side to clad (where garden bed is which will be removed) plus install a door leading to backyard. At the moment I'm thinking blueboard or weatherboard as external cladding then insulation and gyprock for interior. Remove decking and replace with maybe marine ply sheets, underlay and possibly bamboo laminate flooring. For the roof maybe add some sub-frames and gyprock ceiling with insulation. I'd get a plumber in to give it a once over and re-gutter and a sparky for some power and light. Not sure if i should leave the exposed brick on the 3 walls of the house either, they have been covered with a textured cream paint now. Would love some ideas from others about products and other methods to go about this. I'll be doing this pretty much all by myself so I'm also looking at easiest installation methods. Some photos below... cheers photo1, photo2, photo3, photo4 Re: convert deck to rumpus room 2Jul 12, 2013 8:37 pm Hi tama11 I did this exact thing myself. I purchased my place with the veranda already converted into a rumpus room by the previous owners. Suffice to say, the workmanship of the job they did was very ordinary and the room was flooded out early 2011 in the Melbourne floods. I then endeavored to redo a lot of their handy work and in some cases completely replace it. I replaced the entire back wall with a new load bearing wall. After I pulled down all the timber paneling to expose the state of the rafters, I replaced all the rafters due to the timber being undersized for the span and added another rafter between each existing rafter. I removed the corrugated roof sheets which were incorrect for the skillion roof and replaced with sheets more suited to that profile of roof. I then utilised the existing corrugated sheets to clad the outside of the new wall. Under the new roof sheets and behind the walls I utilised sisalation paper. I also installed custom flashing from under the last row of roof tiles and flashed on to the new roof. I cut out and capped off the existing gutter at each end under the flashing. To cope with the new increased flow, I installed a custom folded box gutter which would probaby hold 3 times the quantity of water that the original gutter would have held. Rather than having the fall going back towards the garage and only drain in that direction, I created a new high point in the middle and cut another storm water outlet at the backyard end. The new downpipe as well as the 2 existing down pipes on the house roof then feed a new flooded loop and discharge into 2 2100L water tanks located ~12m away with the overflow going back into the existing stormwater. I removed the existing large windows and door up one end and replaced with a 4 panel twin sliding door leading out to the backyard. Eventually there'll be a deck and pergola there that you'll be stepping out on to but for the time being it leads to the backyard. The other 2 walls back on to the back wall of the house and the side wall of the brick garage. All the walls and ceiling cavities were then stuffed full of R3.0 insulation which were sold by Bunnings at an incorrect price. It cost me less than $150 to insulate the outer walls and ceiling with nearly 2 bags left over. I then sheeted up the interior with standard plaster and got a chippie in to do some custom fixings to finish off the room. I would advise to shop around for plaster as well as I got quite a few radical quotes and some others ridiculously cheap. I ended up being sold more plaster than I needed by 2 4.8m sheets and it worked out $150 cheaper delivered than the next place. Pulling it all down enabled me to redo the lighting and location of socket-outlets and data/AV as I was never really happy with how it was originally configured. As there was also a decent slab down underfoot, all that was required was to pull up the existing laminated floating floorboards and lay down new floating floorboards. hth or gives some enlightenment. Edit: Sorry forgot to mention that the room was nearly 15m long and 4.5m wide. I've added a structural dividing wall complete with window and door and sectioned off a 6.2m x 4.5m section where I'd put up floor to roof shelving assembled out of unistrut channel and chipboard on two walls for storage of little used household items. Re: convert deck to rumpus room 3Jul 26, 2013 4:07 am Hi Bels lots of good work you did there, particularly your roofing and guttering. i think i may need to reinforce my roof too. thanks for posting that, i might get a builder to come and provide some advice before i get into it. cheers consider putting in wall WC instead of robe in the same bedroom, then it might be doable to hook up to the existing piping. 4 6602 From the information posted it looks to me your rumpus room is nothing more than extended garage. That will present a number of challenges. 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