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A measured plan belongs on floor plan. This page needs the wall the deck leaves.
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What the deck must keep
Keep the door height
The walking surface meets the sill you step through
Keep the stair direction
A locked run does not switch to the other side
Keep the drop
Open edges above the yard still get a guard
Deck
Deck
Rails and a stair that meet the door at its real height
A deck is rails, stairs, and door height. The walking surface lines up with the door you leave from. Stair direction can lock: out into the yard, or along the wall. If you lock it, the run in the result has to obey.
Door height is the datum. Stair direction can lock.
The sill, the guard, the stair run, the landing, the yard below, the boards, and a second rail each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.
The walking surface meets the sill. It does not invent a step at the door.
A drop above the yard gets a guard. The house wall is not an open edge.
Out into the yard, or along the wall. A locked run stays that run.
The door is not the top tread. There is room to step out.
The ground under the deck is still the yard. The deck does not grade it flat.
Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or herringbone, without moving the sill.
Try another guard without moving the door or the stair run.
Datum
Door height is the sill you step over. The deck meets it. A surface drawn a step below the slider, with no stair accounted for, is a patio pretending to be a deck. A surface drawn above the sill is a trip the house does not have.
Guard
Rails are the guard where the deck is above the yard. Open sides get them. A boardwalk picture with nothing at the drop is incomplete, even when the boards and the door height are right. Balusters can change character. The guard itself is part of the brief.
Run
Stairs take you from door height down to the yard. Stair direction can lock: straight out, or turned to run along the house. Lock it when a window, a tree, or a property edge makes the other run impossible. Leave it open only if both runs would fit.
The sill is the level of the deck. The boards do not invent a new step at the door.
Open edges above the yard get a guard. Character of the baluster can vary.
The run connects door height to the ground. It is not optional scenery.
You may fix the stair to run out or along the wall. A locked direction is obeyed.
There is room to step out before the stair begins. The door is not the top tread.
The ground under and beyond the deck stays the yard it is. The deck does not grade it flat.
Photograph the wall the deck leaves from, with the door and the ground below both visible.
Door height is the deck level. Note rails on the open sides and where the stairs must land.
Stair direction can lock. If a window or a tree blocks one run, say which direction is required.
Paving on grade, a balcony with less ground under it, a terrace, or the rear yard the stair is trying to reach.
The platform
Deck design is a framed platform: walking surface, rails, and a stair. The door height is the datum. A deck drawn level with a door that is actually three feet up has invented a floor. Rails are part of the structure, not a decoration you add if the rendering looks bare.
The stair needs a landing and a direction you lock if you already know it. It should not dump a person into the only drain or into the neighbor’s line. Photograph the wall the deck leaves from, including the door and the ground below.
A patio sits on grade. A balcony is already in the air and small. This page is the built platform between those two. If you do not need to leave the ground, you do not need a deck.
Match the door. Steps make up the difference. A floating deck that misses the threshold is unusable.
Height and the gap are the safety. Furniture does not replace the rail.
Direction, width, and where it lands. A stair into a bed of plants is not a stair.
The ledger line belongs on the wall you photographed. Do not move the door to suit the boards.
The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.
The sill you step out on, the guard at the open edge, and which way the stair is allowed to run.
The height of the sill you step through. Rails, stairs, and door height are the brief. The deck surface matches that sill.
Yes. Stair direction can lock. Say along the wall, or out into the yard, and the other run should not appear.
Rails guard open edges. The side against the house is the wall, not an open drop, unless the deck pulls away from it.
The slider still has a door height. Leave a landing so the panel can open before anyone reaches the stair.
Yes, if door height and the landing are honest. Lock the direction of the run you care about so the flights do not wander into a window.
A patio is paving, furniture, and shade, with the level change kept. A deck is built to door height and needs rails and stairs.
Only if the frame includes the door and the ground below it. A close crop of boards hides the height this page is supposed to keep.
Include the door, the drop, and the ground the stair would land on. If the sill moved, this pass failed.