SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Need ideas for deck bottom water runoff
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Need ideas for deck bottom water runoff Login/Join 
Where there's smoke,
there's fire!!
Picture of techguy
posted
We have a concrete patio under our elevated deck and when it rains you can’t sit out on the patio for the rain coming down between the deck boards. I’m thinking of putting some corrugated panels on the bottom of the deck with spacers on one end so the water will roll off and we can sit out there during the rain. Any other ideas welcomed. Thanks.
 
Posts: 1773 | Location: Kentucky | Registered: February 16, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Paddle your
own canoe
Picture of BigWhup
posted Hide Post
I would think the main goal would be to be sure the water didn't sit on the corrugated panel and make contact with the deck boards. I would add a spacer at the high end as well, just make the low end spacer thicker.

Of course when the space gets full of ice it will need to have good support and hopefully doesn't overload the deck.
 
Posts: 1553 | Location: South Carolina | Registered: August 06, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Non-Miscreant
posted Hide Post
How about a roof on the upper deck?


Unhappy ammo seeker
 
Posts: 18389 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: February 25, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
safe & sound
Picture of a1abdj
posted Hide Post
They make stuff just for that use. Check for under deck ceilings on the Lowes of Home Depot type sites.


________________________



www.zykansafe.com
 
Posts: 15733 | Location: St. Charles, MO, USA | Registered: September 22, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I did this with plastic corrugated panels. The deck above had joists that were already pitched so I fastened pressure treated firring strips to the bottoms. I then attached the corrugated panels to the firring strips. I also added a gutter to catch the rain water and divert it to where I wanted it to go.

It worked extremely well with only a few drops here and there. Make sure your screws are straight and you shouldn't have a problem with that.


 
Posts: 3668 | Location: PA | Registered: November 15, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of msfzoe
posted Hide Post
Collect the runoff in barrels and use to water your flowers or vegetables.
 
Posts: 2422 | Location: newyorkistan | Registered: January 06, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Need ideas for deck bottom water runoff

© SIGforum 2024