Hi all, i know, i know another decking question But search did not bring up anything on what i need.
Ok, my decking area is fairly large and on a slop so will be part raised.
The dimensions of the area is 4.7 M wide by 6.6 long.
I'll be using 4.8M joists (14.5 x 4.5cm) and 2.4 M boards. The board will be going across the width of the 4.7 so 2 boards will complete a length with hardly any wastage. And i want to step the decking so it looks nicer than having one join in the middle.
Now i have read that centers of the joist should be 40cm apart, this is fine if i were to do 2 full boards across as each ends hits a joist, but as i want to step it, the half decking board (1.2m) will not hit a joist.
Now if i do 60cm centers everything will work out great, but is this to wide? I will be putting in Noggins every 60cm from the same joist material
Is this ok do you think?
Thanks for any help
Ok, my decking area is fairly large and on a slop so will be part raised.
The dimensions of the area is 4.7 M wide by 6.6 long.
I'll be using 4.8M joists (14.5 x 4.5cm) and 2.4 M boards. The board will be going across the width of the 4.7 so 2 boards will complete a length with hardly any wastage. And i want to step the decking so it looks nicer than having one join in the middle.
Now i have read that centers of the joist should be 40cm apart, this is fine if i were to do 2 full boards across as each ends hits a joist, but as i want to step it, the half decking board (1.2m) will not hit a joist.
Now if i do 60cm centers everything will work out great, but is this to wide? I will be putting in Noggins every 60cm from the same joist material
Is this ok do you think?
Thanks for any help