Laying the foundation for a wooden terrace

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Wooden terraces look very tasteful, especially on half-timbered houses, farms or rustic houses. Because wood is a natural, warm material, a wooden terrace fits particularly well into a cozy, natural and rustic environment. You can find out how to lay a foundation for a wooden terrace in the following post.

A wooden terrace invites you to relax.
A wooden terrace invites you to relax.

What you need:

  • Tape measure
  • Wooden sticks
  • line
  • Spirit level
  • Wooden stake for compacting
  • hoe
  • spade
  • shovel
  • wheelbarrow
  • Straight
  • Trowel
  • Precast concrete
  • Wooden beams
  • Wooden boards
  • Isolating agent

On your own terrace you can relax, read or have a quiet coffee with family and friends in summer. Wooden terraces are particularly popular because they convey a lot of cosiness through a natural, timeless look.

Plan the foundation and procure material

But before you do one Wooden terrace erect, you should plan the company adequately and obtain the necessary material.

  • The foundation in particular must be stable, durable and precisely built so that you can enjoy the wooden terrace for many years.
  • First of all, you should measure and mark out the area on which the wooden terrace is to be built. To do this, you will need wooden sticks, string and tape measure.
  • Then you can start with the foundation for the wooden deck.
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  • A strip foundation is best for wooden terraces. The beams, which ultimately have to support the wooden boards of the wooden terrace, are attached to this.

Strips of concrete support the beams of the wooden terrace

  1. To do this, in the next step you make the ground level, up to the height that the upper edge of the foundation of the wooden terrace should later have.
  2. Then mark the individual strips for the foundation with pieces of wood and string. As many foundation strips must be laid as wooden beams are required. Each strip should be about 30 inches wide.
  3. Now the trenches of the foundation strips for the wooden terrace are dug to a depth that reaches below the frost line. That is about 80 centimeters.
  4. You take away the excavated earth. The trenches of the strips are now filled with precast concrete up to the top of the earth. You have to make sure that you always compact the precast concrete well in between. Finally, peel off the precast concrete cleanly and evenly. All strips must have the same height at the end.
  5. When the concrete is completely dry, dig the strips between the foundations of the wooden deck about eight inches deep. This is to ensure that the foundation strips protrude and thus ensure good ventilation for the terrace wood.
  6. In the next step, the well-impregnated beams are attached to the foundation of the wooden terrace, not without first providing the strips with an insulating layer.
  7. Finally, the terrace boards are attached to the beams and the wooden terrace is ready.

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