Expanding your home by adding a veranda can be motivated by several reasons. This can be to have aesthetics or to have more living space or for moments of relaxation and reading. To do this, you can use several materials, including wood. But between doing it yourself or a professional, we explain how to make your own veranda using wood.
Make an inventory
There construction of your wooden veranda requires an inventory of the situation. Indeed, building a wooden frame veranda requires a choice of the location where you plan to build your veranda. It is important to choose the location where you want your veranda to be by following a few criteria. Check the character of the location by making sure that this location will be affected much more by sunlight.
So that your veranda is in suit your tastes, it is appropriate to have the potential of the land to be exploited examined or examined yourself. Make sure that your terrace construction is linked to a living room in your house that you often inhabit, such as your living room or lounge. This point is important because it makes you much more likely to want to stay on your terrace or go there often rather than when you move it away from your house.
After the inventory, you can prepare your land. Indeed, it is possible that you are starting the foundation of your terrace. This involves constructing a slab. When you do it yourself, and you do not have the necessary skills or the appropriate equipment, it is ideal to call on a professional to help you with this step. You can choose tiles over the entire surface where your veranda will fit, or a suitable wooden floor.
Also it will be necessary adapt the roof of your house to that of your veranda. As a general rule, it is the roof of your house that determines the frame of your veranda. It is simpler to make your roof custom-made.
Building your veranda
In order to have a quality veranda, it is important to choose the quality of wood you should use. Be sure to choose the right wood, taking into account the waterproofing and solidity of the wood. Wood that is too light will not last over time. When you have chosen the material to use, you can now move on to construction.
There covered dimension by your veranda must consist of four wooden pillars, one at each end of the surface. These pillars are used to support the roof to be installed. If your veranda is large, you will need to consider adding pillars on the sides with the longest distances. This is very important so that your roof does not give way with time. You can directly fix the pillars to the ground when fixing the foundations or fix them directly using a drill on the slab.
When you do your own roof by adapting it to the frame of your house, it is ideal to climb just after installing the different pillars. To achieve this, you will have to build the rafters yourself which will be used to form the roof of the veranda. In fact, you must install the post, support of the ridge purlin where the rafters will be fixed. After this step you can start fixing the rafters one by one so as to obtain a slope on both sides of the purlin. Also remember to extend the rafters onto the supports so as to obtain a cornice.
The cornice must be made so that the edges are aligned. It facilitates installing gutters. Once you have installed your roof properly, you can install the plywood to cover the rafters and roof frame. Consider making it to measure using an electric circular saw. You can adapt the decor to your taste, paint, decoration and flooring.
Note that building your wooden veranda yourself is not easy. This may take up your time and energy. If you are a DIY enthusiast, this may seem easier to you. But you can get help and ask for advice from outside people.