Instead consider covering your aging concrete patio with decking.
Floating deck very low deck over concrete.
Cracks craters and seasonal movement along cracks are no problem.
It s incredibly durable and best of all easy to maintain.
An old cracked partially sunken concrete patio can be an eyesore if not a safety hazard.
Demolishing it and replacing it with new poured concrete is an economical but extremely labor intensive process.
The titan deck foot anchor could possibly be the best approach for building a low level deck with your space and height restriction.
This kind of deck takes a little work but gets easier as you go.
Now you are ready to deck over the low deck joist system as you would on any deck.
Even if your patio is in terrible shape you can deck over it.
Floating decks don t take as much work as a fixed deck.
Below are eight reasons to build a floating deck.
Plus you can install fiberon decking easily over a patio or on a rooftop space on a sleeper system.
But beware of these three situations.
They are elevated a bit above the ground and they can be moved from one area of your yard to another.
A sleeper system is a substructure comprising joists that sit between a solid surface such as concrete and the decking.
Layout the deck boards perpendicular to the joists.
While you can build one on concrete pavers or over an existing level patio perhaps the soundest way to support a floating deck is with pre made concrete deck blocks that have notched tops.
1 you can build a floating deck over concrete very quickly and easily.
For synthetic decking use a 16d nail to space the boards apart.
It is the lowest ground anchor system on the market a secure system for decks as low as 2.