My monster deck project

[ohiobrewtus]

Yes, I said deck, not the other. Although it does make the think of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour 'deck' bit.

Since the homebrewpub project is still on hold (I just bought a friggin monster pump that 4 different contractors told me would take care of the problem), we've moved on to another project at the house - building the monster deck.

The back of my house is a bit odd, as the 3rd car garage sticks out in the back, leaving 15.5' to the actual back of the house, then there's a 14x14 sunroom off the back of the house, leaving me with an "L" shape that's 32' x 29.5" at its longest points, resulting in a deck that's roughly 700 sq. ft.

I'm capable of building this all myself, but SWMBO wants to be able to have dinner on the deck by her birthday (9/21) and it would take me basically forever to do this myself and get everything right so we hired a contractor to dig the holes, set the posts, and frame the joists. I'll be doing the deckboards, the railing, balusters and lighting.

Anyone that knows me knows that I tend to go a bit overboard on projects so without giving too much away I'll say that the railing involves stone columns, lighting and wraught iron balusters. You'll have to wait for pics to see it, but hopefully it's all going to look very good together.

MODS - feel free to move this if it should to in a different forum.

3rd car garage off the side of the house:

View from the corner behind the 3rd car garage:

Sunroom off the back of the house:

View from the corner of the sunroom and the house:

Progress updates to follow.

 

[John Beere]

Reminds me of only two short years ago, when I too foolishly built a deck all by myself. Several thousand dollars and one broken leg later - here are the results: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f19/my-new-beer-deck-18933/

 

[david_42]

Quite a project. I had a sunroom slab poured out the front of my house when I added a garage. They had to tear out the slab for the old garage & the old sidewalk to do the sewer line, so including a 12x12 pad wasn't much extra. Now that the old garage door has been walled in, I'll tackle the sunroom.

It never stops.

 

[ChshreCat]

I had to read the title twice. I thought it said... something else... the first time.

 

[EdWort]

Build it and they will come (party at Ohiobrewtus's house).

Nice holes, can't wait to see the rest!

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Update:

That's SWMBO (brewinmama) and Brewgirl #4 off to the right.

More pics to come soon. Much more has been done, I just haven't taken more pics yet.

 

[HBRunner]

And of course you are going to use that new composite decking to do this with right?

For what that would cost, you could just buy a new house.....

Looks good though...I just finished up adding a basic 16 X 16 deck onto our new sunroom/keeping room, and the hardest part was getting the angles right for the rails on the steps......

 

[ohiobrewtus]

And of course you are going to use that new composite decking to do this with right?

For what that would cost, you could just buy a new house.....

Looks good though...I just finished up adding a basic 16 X 16 deck onto our new sunroom/keeping room, and the hardest part was getting the angles right for the rails on the steps......

I looked at Composite decking, but at 3x the cost of pressure treated.. no thanks. I have too much money tied up in other things for this deck already... no way I can handle 3x the cost on over 130 deck boards.

 

[EdWort]

Looking awesome! Man your deck is HUGE! That's a lot of wood!

 

[Brew-Happy]

Looking awesome! Man your deck is HUGE! That's a lot of wood!

Me thinks someone doth compensate

For some reason, Ed your post brings to mind all of the Enzyte commercials

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I'm feeling deck envy right now.

 

[Matt_D]

Nice Deck

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ7Ue5emo6I]YouTube - Blue Collar Comedy Tour - BIG DECK - starring Drew Carey[/ame]

 

[nystevecf]

Nice work, good to see you went with the extra footers. Did you use 4x4 or 6x6's? Also 2x6,2x8,or 2x10 for the joists?

 

[ohiobrewtus]

4x4 posts 3 feet down in concrete. Joists are all 2x10. I actually didn't do any of that work though. It could have, but I'd still be working on it at Halloween. These guys slammed it out in about 4 half days.

Anything in future pics will have been done by me. Not sure if that's good or bad yet... I'll tell you after it's done.

 

[Bobby_M]

Looks like the joists are on 24" centers? I think composite requires 16" or even 12" if you run diagonal.

Is the deck freestanding or is the ledger attached to the house?

 

[Flyin' Lion]

Nothing to add, but looking good Ohio.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Looks like the joists are on 24" centers? I think composite requires 16" or even 12" if you run diagonal.

Is the deck freestanding or is the ledger attached to the house?

Didn't use composite. The stuff is too expensive. No diagonal runs, 2' on center is plenty. The deck boards are on now and there's no give anywhere on it at all.

Ledger board attached to the house.

 

[nystevecf]

4x4 posts 3 feet down in concrete. Joists are all 2x10. I actually didn't do any of that work though. It could have, but I'd still be working on it at Halloween. These guys slammed it out in about 4 half days.

Anything in future pics will have been done by me. Not sure if that's good or bad yet... I'll tell you after it's done.

Cool, I like using 6x6's but some say it is overkill. If you have any questions let me know.

 

[steelerguy]

Me thinks someone doth compensate

For some reason, Ed your post brings to mind all of the Enzyte commercials

Nothing to trim around the deck to make it look bigger, so he had to go large from the start!

Looking good, getting ready to tear out my falling apart crap deck that came with my house and put in a Mahogany deck that does not have leaning railing and a diving board like bounce.

 

[Kauai_Kahuna]

Deck envy - I just wish I had a back yard!
Looking good, and I hope you enjoy making it. Nothing like building something that last more than a year that you like, and nothing worst than a POS that you pulled out of your Arse and lasting over a decade and people asking you to fix it, when all you want to do is travel back in time to kill yourself for making it.
In other words, you can throw some plywood over the beams and keep meet your SHMBO wish, but keep the final product in mind and make to your standards.
Best of luck.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

I'm working on this today so I'll have more pics up later tonight, but here are a few that I took last night.

Step up 14X12 deck where there will eventually be a hot tub. There aren't deck boards on this yet because I have to redo some plumbing on the sump pump outlest right below this area.

Closer view of the 3 2x10's making a joist to support the weight of the hot tub:

Brewgirls #1 and #2 playing on the deck:

The steps from hell (although I did finally finish them this morning):

 

[Soulive]

Nice job dude, those steps look great. Its smart to make sure the hot tub area is re-enforced. Those bastards are heavy when you factor in the water and people...

 

[ohiobrewtus]

The steps from hell are finally finished:

Another view of the steps from hell. Man these were a PITA, but I'm happy with how they turned out.

Railing is partly up on one side, and two of the columns have a scratch coat on them. The masonry place only had 3 sheets of lath so I'll have to finish the rest another time.

 

[drunkatuw]

Impressive work! Looking forward to seeing the finished deck.

 

[blacklab]

Looking good! When's the hot tub delivered? I had one for 10 years and have been without for 2. My back and knees miss it.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Not sure on the hot tub. We had one at the previous house, but sold it with the house. Luckily for me, my dad owns a pool and hot tub place so when we can afford one we'll get it at cost + shipping. :rockin:

 

[Kauai_Kahuna]

That is coming along very quickly, and it looks like your girls like it.
Looking really good.

 

[DubbelDach]

Why so thick and bulky with the railings? Aren't you sacrificing a lot of room? How are they going to turn out?

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Why so thick and bulky with the railings? Aren't you sacrificing a lot of room? How are they going to turn out?

I'm wrapping the columns in stone. The deck is roughly 700 sq. ft. so no, I'm not worried about 8 2'x2' columns taking up too much room.

 

[user 574]

I'm wrapping the columns in stone. The deck is roughly 700 sq. ft. so no, I'm not worried about 8 2'x2' columns taking up too much room.

Very cool and fast work. And you want those big columns to put your drinks on too.