I usually do interior work only but with the weather, a proposed deck sounds like a good way to get paid while getting a tan.
The deck will be 24×32, built as 4 freestanding sections bolted together to allow for future roof service should it be needed (new 30 year roof underneath). We planned for the deck to be about 10″ tall (2×8 framing). Now, the co-op board wants a small pergola, 8×8 or 8×6 for a little shade. How would you attatch it? On the ground, I would simply bolt the posts to poured footings and joists, we can’t pierce the roofing here.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jim
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Most columns are round and hollow. Just cut a round piece to fit the interior portion out of PT or redwood o4r cedara. Find yopur position and used PL and a couple screws to affix it to the decking, then pop the column over it and a couple lateral screws through the sides and into the set piece. Be sure to have framing in the right spot for suppoprt
Most of my photos of this job are on 35mm but this scaned one shows a hint.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
We did a rubber roof top area and of course needed a railing. We wanted to minimize the posts setting on the roof and we had about 12 feet of railing.
I wanted to build in 1 x 1 square steel into the captured ballaster railing to avoid a fall - breaking the railing (we went with one post at the corner - the ends were both attached to the house).
We built the 1 x 1 square steel in right above the ballasters, right under the 2x4 flat railing top. The tops of the ballasters and the 1 x 1 steel were captured and covered by 1 3/4 x 1 - 5/4 ripped out of 5/4 decking.
The neat idea the guy I work with came up with was to put a pre bent "bow up" in the steel so the railing wouldn't sag over time. That was in '88. It worked.
I like that idea. Thankfully, the deck is far enough away from the the 48" parapet so it doesn't require railings. It is, however, atop a 5 floor walk up so I'll be 3x checking the takeoffs ;~)
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski
i'd worry more how you plan to keep it from take'n off in a high wind... I think i'd find a way to attach it to something that would hold it down... when we build decks on roofs we try to raise em above the roof... 48- 60" set on steel pipe that goes through the roof through regular rubber vent pipe boots and attached to something solid...
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