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Short Cantilevered Extension to Cement PorchFrom: sdevinny@aol.com
Category: Decks
Remote Name: 152.163.201.84
Date: 26 May 2002
Time: 10:49 PM
CommentsI have an approx. 3 ft cement porch across the front of my house. It sits on a foundation wall on the front and I assume protruding blocks from the basement wall on the back. It is about 2 feet high across the front of the house. It is not really wide enough for someone to sit in a deck chair and have room for someone to get past them to the next chair. I would like to extend it about 1.5 ft with a treated lumber false deck, cantilevered off the front of the concrete. Is there a construction technique that I can use to build and attach a 1.5 ft platform across the front of the porch without putting in support posts. Since it only needs to be about 1.5 ft, I'm tryin to avoid having to put in support post. I live in Minnesota, so that means 42 in. deep to get below the frost line.
I would then face it with Cedar and hang Lattise below the face board to cover the foundation block and make it appear to be a cedar deck.
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