I'm usually opposed to flat roof property and avoid 2nd level decks above lower level rooms like the plague, but the Mrs has her heart set on an American designed place we've seen on the internet (for a new build).
Has anyone ever seen a house in NZ where the roof doubles as a deck space? Obviously there needs to be a parapet acting as a handrail.
Access to the roof is interesting. It has an outside set of stairs that runs up the side of the building to the roof. This staircase is accessed itself from a ranchslider off a room on the 2nd level, not from the ground, for security. This means of course that the staircase itself sits over a room on the ground floor and this scares the crap out of me in terms of keeping it non-leaky.
I'm assuming the only way this could be done properly is with pre-slab concrete?
Has anyone ever seen a house in NZ where the roof doubles as a deck space? Obviously there needs to be a parapet acting as a handrail.
Access to the roof is interesting. It has an outside set of stairs that runs up the side of the building to the roof. This staircase is accessed itself from a ranchslider off a room on the 2nd level, not from the ground, for security. This means of course that the staircase itself sits over a room on the ground floor and this scares the crap out of me in terms of keeping it non-leaky.
I'm assuming the only way this could be done properly is with pre-slab concrete?
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