richmondcd
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Hello.
I have a completely roofed(permitted, hurricane proofed, ready to go) patio that I am going to build an addition under. The existing patio is I'd say 2 inches below the rest of the slab that the house is built on and I need to level that up. I will eventually be continuing the wooden flooring I have begun in the rest of the house seamlessly out into that addition. Rather than completely demolishing the existing patio(it has footings for the posts/beams which support the roofing structures(open beam) and rather than pouring a questionable 1-2" thin slab on top, I was going to build a sleeper floor using 2x(whatever necessary) with plywood top to make it level. I was also thinking of filling the space between the sleeper beams with rigid foam blocks of some type? Then frame my walls on top of that. I would ensure I leveled the sleeper using shims under the sleeper beams and ensure that I had sleepers wide enough directly under any place I had a bottom plate for my wall frames. The entire house is an older single wall redwood with open support beams and the covered patio is the same, so the new double wall portions I am building do not need actual structural support, they are only framing for windows/doors etc.
This is all in Hawaii climate where it is 60-85 year round where I live.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this or input on this approach?
Thanks!
I have a completely roofed(permitted, hurricane proofed, ready to go) patio that I am going to build an addition under. The existing patio is I'd say 2 inches below the rest of the slab that the house is built on and I need to level that up. I will eventually be continuing the wooden flooring I have begun in the rest of the house seamlessly out into that addition. Rather than completely demolishing the existing patio(it has footings for the posts/beams which support the roofing structures(open beam) and rather than pouring a questionable 1-2" thin slab on top, I was going to build a sleeper floor using 2x(whatever necessary) with plywood top to make it level. I was also thinking of filling the space between the sleeper beams with rigid foam blocks of some type? Then frame my walls on top of that. I would ensure I leveled the sleeper using shims under the sleeper beams and ensure that I had sleepers wide enough directly under any place I had a bottom plate for my wall frames. The entire house is an older single wall redwood with open support beams and the covered patio is the same, so the new double wall portions I am building do not need actual structural support, they are only framing for windows/doors etc.
This is all in Hawaii climate where it is 60-85 year round where I live.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this or input on this approach?
Thanks!