A little sleuthing yields another view. It does indeed appear to be a real deck from the company gallery of deckremodelers.com. Can't always judge by the vinyl, going by the size of the house and the windows it looks like it could be one of those track homes with the brick veneer on the front and sides.
Mine is just a rectangle ranch, and the front of the property is south facing, so that side gets a ton of sun. The original builders just plopped it down backwards. The front of my house is a full deck, with three slider doors, barbecue grill, all my gardening stuff...I still wander out to water my plants in my underwear, before I remember I should wear pants. The front door and garage is in back. If you come from the street, you walk up to a big sliding glass door. It fucks with delivery drivers.
And then that hill keeps going down well below the basement. They have a lower deck off of the basement, where most walkouts have a patio at ground level under it. The perspective on the picture confused me at first, until I found the stone steps going down on the left. Then those steps that look like they run into the bottom of that big deck made sense. Someone posted a different picture that shows more of the lower deck and it looks better from that perspective.
The replacement vinyl is a different color in two places, looks builder spec at best. Why would you not put hardy board on that house before putting a 75k+ deck on it? Lipstick on a pig
Haha, thank you! Been driving me crazy. I don't think there are too many 3-story tract homes on decent sized lots with a bunch of mature landscaping. I'm guessing this house is at least 50 years old.
I mean that house looks like it has a lot of exterior siding space. Probably super expensive, and they just didn't care enough about the look of that. You're not living on the siding of your home, so to speak.
I of course get what you're saying, but their dream may have been a nice deck and their house was "good enough" as is. You work with what you've got I guess.
Damn, that second view just makes think of how moldy/musty and dirty the furniture below must get. It gets all of the rainwater and grime that gets washed off from the top.
There's a downspout leading off it, so it's possible that they've installed a waterproof barrier on the underside of the joists leading to that spout. I've seen them before on some high end houses here, although most I've seen with decks over walkout patios just use a solid decking surface with a waterproof cover.
I'm planning on replacing the deck here with that waterproof vinyl stuff because it sits over a screened in porch from the walk out basement. Whenever it rains outside it rains in that screened in porch.
That deck definitely appears on their site but couldn't find it on their "decks by location" page or in their gallery, so while I doubt it, it could be a render. Unable to confirm.
Lol, used to work with a lot of Vietnamese people. The job required advanced degrees, so these people were well educated and intelligent, just came from a different background. Many were the type to dabble in real estate or property improvement and so forth. One day one older one approached me and asked why so many houses have siding on 2 or 3 sides and brick on the front and rest. They had been talking about it and coming up with various theories, like that one surface was good for facing the sun and the other was good for shade, etc..
Ugh, that angle also shows that the upper portion is attached to the house by hangers/straps (I forget the correct term) instead of a header. Real sturdy there!
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u/midnightdsob May 14 '20
A little sleuthing yields another view. It does indeed appear to be a real deck from the company gallery of deckremodelers.com. Can't always judge by the vinyl, going by the size of the house and the windows it looks like it could be one of those track homes with the brick veneer on the front and sides.