Permit for Roof Deck
We are looking to install this type of roof deck: http://www.bisondecksupports.com/index.asp?pid=4 it is basically a kit you assemble and it just rests on the roof. is it still necessary to file for a permit?
We are looking to install this type of roof deck:
http://www.bisondecksupports.com/index.asp?pid=4
it is basically a kit you assemble and it just rests on the roof. is it still necessary to file for a permit?
I received this from my contractor:
The project won’t require you to file a permit, being that the project is modular and nothing structurally attached to the roof. Thus in itself it passes as deck furniture
chickenoid23-
Did you ever get your deck done?
I have the same scenario and want to see what steps you took.
Thanks!
What can you do on your roof without a permit?
In other words, I have an engineer’s report stating exactly how much weight the roof can hold, and I don’t intend to go over it. I know that a green roof installation does not require a permit. It seems like it should, but maybe the code hasn’t caught up with the technology yet. Do you need a permit, for instance, to put down pavers? Or those big rubber tiles? Or wood tiles?
Thanks
Heck, set aside the facts that there are windy conditions in NYC, and that you will need a permit. The “structural wall” with roof flashing that needs to be built around the entire perimeter for drainage seems a long way towards getting a regular deck made anyway.
Set aside the issue of codes and permits etc. for a moment. During a storm or hurricane there may be more uplift pressure on the roof of a building than the weight of the deck itself can resist. A gust of wind creates far greater pressure on a roof of a building than you would ever feel at the street level — engineers call this the venturi effect. It’s a very different circumstance from having this deck system in a backyard in Pennsylvania, for example. A positive tie down to the roof structure would definitely be needed as a matter of safety.
If that was for me, I dunno what the code is for roof decks but an architect or GC will. What I know is that if you want it to be a legal job you’re gonna need one or both.
so you are saying the NYC building code says a roof deck has to be attacehd to the roof becuase of potentail hurricaines?
It is. In fact, Allstate Insurance canceled the home owners policies of all its NYC customers in 2006 because of it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063000612.html
Ten months ago an F2 tornado touched down two blocks from me and ripped up a bunch of roofs. Imagine a floating deck.
http://www.brooklynrowhouse.com/brooklyn_tornado
NYC is a hurricane zone, as is about half a mile of the entire southern coast of LI (FEMA has maps that determine the exact extent of the zone).