CONSULTING ” DECKING BOARDS ” roof or balcony
The foundation of a balcony or roof terrace can be of two types: Either as a steel girder construction or as a closed surface, sometimes sealed by a roof membrane or tar membrane. In both cases, you need to keep an eye on the railing height and often only have a limited installation height available. At this point, we clarify the correct preparatory work for both variants.
As a support for the substructure or pedestal bearing and as protection for the roof membrane and tar membrane.
To ensure that the film and tar membrane are protected and do not react with the decking pads.
The distance between the beams defines the construction method of the substructure.
So that your wooden decking does not rattle later.
The distance between the beams defines the construction method of the substructure.
When building a wooden deck on an EPDM membrane (also known as a roofing membrane) or welded tar membranes, you must pay particular attention to the protection of the respective waterproofing. In the case of EPDM membranes, we recommend laying root fleece over the entire surface first. Even if weed growth is not usually a problem on roof terraces and balconies, the fleece fulfills the important function of preventing a chemical reaction between the foil and the terrace pad.
Even if the height compensation is lower when laying on a roof or balcony than when laying on a slope or on the ground, the surfaces are generally not 100% level. Here too, leveling must therefore be carried out using several terrace pads or pedestals, which must also keep the railing height in mind and only have a limited installation height available.
The advantage of steel girders is that everything should already be “in the water”, so no leveling of the surface is necessary. To ensure that steel and wood or steel and aluminum do not cause any noise later on, the joists should be covered with decking pads at certain points or with a rubber granulate roll along their entire length.
In many balconies and roofs, the steel beams were welded at intervals that did not match the desired installation direction of the decking boards. Only with a relatively narrow grid of 50 cm or less can the structural timbers run parallel to the steel girders. For larger distances, the structural timbers must run at right angles to the beams. If you then want to change the laying direction of the decking boards, counter-battening is necessary, but care must be taken to ensure that the railing does not become too low later on.
Table of contents
Overview of the process
Calculate demand
Calculate costs
Order wood samples
Wood decking shipping
Temporary storage
Building instructions for wooden decking
Shopping list
Preparing the substrate
Meadow or earth
Stone or concrete
Roof or balcony
Slope
Laying the foundation
Creating height compensation
Laying the substructure
Installing decking boards
Select saw blade
Screwing decking boards
Assembly instructions for decking screws
Assembly instructions Clips
Veneering wooden decking
Building stairs
Decking boards crooked
Typical errors
Maintain
Cleaning
Enjoy
Decking quality
Best decking wood
Wood species comparison
Manual sorting
Cracks and curvature
Durability of wooden decking
Wood vs. aluminum
Concealed screw connection comparison
Branded products
Finger-jointing
