annqldau

Just musing about putting a bigger veranda/Deck on our house would need to be approx 15 feet wide by about 20 feet long to be worth doing, problem is it would need to be 8 foot off the ground with one 20 foot side attached to the house.

Would just need metal stilts as present veranda is on metal poles and a metal fence round to match. Could have either a tiled or wood deck as we can do present veranda to match.

Anyway if you've done a veranda and don't mind sharing the approx price and showing a photo fire away.

joho

Love verandas, wish I could have one bigger. I love queenslanders too.

Sigh

Geelong Gent

If I start mentioning my "deck" Buzzy is going to make some remark about Kiwi's and their big D###KS

So I shall refrain - however we are putting an L shaped one around our new build which will be 20 x 3 (metres) and then 33 x 3 (metres). Not sure what to do around the pool at the rear of the house. But love the idea of sitting out on the deck during a rainstorm.

joho

Mine is about 4 meters by 2 meters, just enough room for an outside lounge setting, but it is nice to sit out in the rain. Also note the colour of the house is changing and thats no mean feat:curse:

Jo

Geelong Gent

Thats the life isn't it Jo sitting out sinking a few cold ones looking at that inviting pool in the warmer months. Or during the colder just sitting outside and taking it all in.

Buzzy--Bee

Yes.



Buzzy

ps here's my home built deck in the UK -




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BadgeIsBack

beautiful Buzzy.

Our is 7m x 13m - which is a sizeable deck for quite a small house, with an apex pergola some 4m high. It was very old so we covered it with laserlight and painted the whole lot including the old and tired merbau decking. It really came up.

The beams are 200mmx 50mm so its sturdier than the standard framing pine you seem to see sometimes.

Such a feat would be a couple of tens of thousands so we like it.

joho

We have just built a pergola on the right as your looking at the photo above, just havent taken piccy of it yet. Its 8 meters by 5 meters os a good size. We used lazerlite apollo as it was the only one that had the colour we wanted whole thing cost us $2300 so not to bad. Hubby built it with a friend. I will photograph it and post tomorrow if I remember.

Jo

rabsody

think this is 8 X 5 metres or something. it's gorgeous, i love it .. but yet i still want to go back to blighty some people are never happy!!!!

cresta's conscience

Maybe your not partying with the right people

Sean finally put our hammock up today, just gotta work out a way to get the spa up 6m high onto our back deck/veranda so I can look over the mountains whilst having a soak and I'll never wanna leave the house

BadgeIsBack

I love merbau.

Siren & Brian

You take a picture of it and I can give you a quote to what I would charge here in Perth

annqldau

We want tad bigger than that but like you have so can eat and relax on it, looks good however, wouldn't look as good in Blighty.

Mmmm... spa on veranda...mmmm maybe more complicated than it seems.

Will do, bit busy this weekend so will stick it as soon as possible.

annqldau

That's about the size of our present one but would like it a bit wider and a bit longer to enable proper eating area off kitchen which is upstairs.

annqldau

Ok better idea if you ignore the twisty kid and the quality depending on your broadband speed this is a view of the area we want the deck upstairs as the kitchen is off the upstairs right door.

See http://video.google.com.au/videoplay...78997542612132

Therefore, we want to either build a new deck that incorporates the old verandas or a deck/veranda in-between the two that comes out a lot further than the existing ones that are only wide enough for big rocking chairs and not a decent entertaining area. The whole thing would need to be at the height of the existing decks but could just have sailcloth instead of roof as sun moves around front on an afternoon.

The other option is to somehow build on top of existing under cover seating area, which is downstairs, which is not good when kitchen is upstairs..... Moving the kitchen downstairs, my husband constantly tells me is not an option.