Building a terrace, open questions about construction and drainage

  • Erstellt am 2025-08-12 10:42:06

wooop11

2025-08-12 10:56:53
  • #1
Here is a sketch, sorry made on my phone :)

 

Nauer

2025-08-12 17:43:43
  • #2
Hey,

with a 7 percent slope you lay WPC most cleanly on height-adjustable supports. The substructure receives its own slope of about 2 percent away from the house. For drainage, you don’t need a drainage mat under WPC if the decking ventilation is free and the water can drain onto the concrete slab. It gets critical at the edge. Plan a linear gutter with a slope at the outer edge and lead it into a soakaway or approved discharge. Alternatively, a gravel strip with a permeable substructure and DN 100 drain pipe in fleece. At least 2 to 3 centimeters of air space to the house and no soil contact. Observe the door connection height.

Good luck!
 

wooop11

2025-08-15 08:39:31
  • #3
Hey, thanks for the reply. Yes, pedestals were also my first thought. Unfortunately, I need very, very many of them for my area. The laying direction for me (my wife wants it that way :D) was intended longitudinally. Wouldn’t that be rather suboptimal for drainage? So build the channel at the height of the WPC boards? I could then lead it into the existing channels in the concrete slab. What do you say about the edge? I would like to build flush with the ground, so with earth contact, filling the lawn a bit higher. Then I suppose I have to set new edging stones there? Thanks and regards
 

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