What are my deck options?
I believe this deck is about 30 years old. The flippers we bought the house from 2 years ago committed a war crime by painting it with latex paint which was slowly lifting. Wife wanted paint gone and natural wood sealed. Wife sanded, stripped and power washed and there's still plenty of paint left on there. I failed to advise her to keep her distance with the power washer and now there's some loose fibers and splitting, possibly that was there before and was covered up by said flippers. Biggest catch is a sun room that's build on part of the deck, I believe from the same time. Looking from underneath the joists all look to be in great shape as they've always been protected from the elements. The sun room is not stick built and consists of two wall/window panels and a solid roof panel. The stripping also revealed a couple boards that are on their way out and need to be replaced, but the majority of the deck seems to be in good shape and is structurally solid. I pulled a couple boards and the joists seem like they're in good shape (although I only know so much). The 4x4 footers all look good and solid. I realize I need to pull all the boards to get a good read on the overall viability of the support structure, but what I've seen looks promising. My thoughts are: Rent a planer, pull all the boards (stopping at the sun room/red line drawn on the photo), plane to remove paint and resurface, replace bad boards, seal, reinstall on existing support structure. Replace joists as needed. Option 1 but with composite decking. Support the sun room roof panel, remove the walls, redo all of the decking, utilizing existing support structure. Option 3 but redoing the support structure. Thank you!! Processing img xma48773zxne1... Processing img d9r2ctq3zxne1... Processing img yay91uq3zxne1... Processing img hep97uq3zxne1... Processing img 2t0aiuq3zxne1... Processing img 6z281xq3zxne1... Processing img bzs8ttq3zxne1... Processing img 03tohuq3zxne1... Processing img xpp60uq3zxne1... Processing img iz8qcyq3zxne1... submitted by /u/notsferatu [link] [comments]
I believe this deck is about 30 years old.
The flippers we bought the house from 2 years ago committed a war crime by painting it with latex paint which was slowly lifting. Wife wanted paint gone and natural wood sealed.
Wife sanded, stripped and power washed and there's still plenty of paint left on there. I failed to advise her to keep her distance with the power washer and now there's some loose fibers and splitting, possibly that was there before and was covered up by said flippers.
Biggest catch is a sun room that's build on part of the deck, I believe from the same time. Looking from underneath the joists all look to be in great shape as they've always been protected from the elements. The sun room is not stick built and consists of two wall/window panels and a solid roof panel.
The stripping also revealed a couple boards that are on their way out and need to be replaced, but the majority of the deck seems to be in good shape and is structurally solid. I pulled a couple boards and the joists seem like they're in good shape (although I only know so much). The 4x4 footers all look good and solid. I realize I need to pull all the boards to get a good read on the overall viability of the support structure, but what I've seen looks promising.
My thoughts are:
Rent a planer, pull all the boards (stopping at the sun room/red line drawn on the photo), plane to remove paint and resurface, replace bad boards, seal, reinstall on existing support structure. Replace joists as needed.
Option 1 but with composite decking.
Support the sun room roof panel, remove the walls, redo all of the decking, utilizing existing support structure.
Option 3 but redoing the support structure.
Thank you!!
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