That will work. Make sure that angle bisector is sized to pick up the joist that are hanging off it. Also, I usually put a small strip of decking down the middle of the miter, so that any discrepancies in miters of opposing deck boards, doesn't show up.

 

:clap::thumbup: If you did that in MS paint thats a dang good diagram. Gets the point across. Not a deck builder but what redwood said sounds about right.

 

is this what you are trying to do?

 

Great work. I like this photo the best of the three. It might be because the wood is wet or the photo is darker, but the wood really shows well.
Steve

 

i like to run a 2x8 flat where the herringbone marrage occurs.

hope your know how to start a herringbone joint

 

With a lighter and passed to the left.

 

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

Looks good to me....are you mitering your boards in the center of the stairs, or both sides? some people like having the boards parallel to the rim all the way around. In that case you would hang the cripple joists off the last common like a hip/valley.

 

You will have to clip the corner of the deck like the one rotarex posted to maintain a 3' wide landing.

 

i love these wrap around stairs, but depending on the height of the deck the stair becomes 50+% of the deck which is a bad thing
better deck i did
what makes these wraps sweet is the continus flowing rail there is a calculation for it, if anyone knows can you please post. i have done this style 3 times and forgot all times

 

Very nice work. It's a pleasure to see the workmanship and the attention to detail.

 

What would probably be more helpful for the OP is if you posted pics of the framing beneath those stairs...
doesn't look like the same detail he's working on but it might give him some ideas.

Mac

 

nice work rotarex

 

Thank for god for MS paint or else I would be scanning my graph pad :blink:

Just straight down stairs on that 45 portion of the deck to the drivewave/yard. Correct decking will 45 around the corner also so its parallell with the stairs

Where the yellow lines are are you suggesting i run a strip of decking there like that so the mitred angles don't have to butt up?

 

Correct decking will 45 around the corner also so its parallell with the stairs

Where the yellow lines are are you suggesting i run a strip of decking there like that so the mitred angles don't have to butt up?

I would change the framing so the joists are perpendicular to the stairs. IMO when framing for a deck I try to frame for the neatest nailing pattern.

Loneframer is exactly right, your boards won't match up, but if you miter in the middle, you still have long angles running at the rim joist.....It's all a matter of preference.

one more option..... you could widen the 'hip' angle (of the deck boards not the framing) to correctly bisect the angles..... the nailing pattern gets screwy without additional blocking, takes longer to lay out, and adds some complicated cuts.

 

These may not exactly meet your case, but it might help.

 

That is really solid work Mark!:thumbsup:
Steve

 

Total bad ass Mark.

There may be life on other planets, but this one is the only one with

Chocolate. J.

 

The problem I see with the OPs drawing is that by framing the deck in that manner, the miters can't be aligned using full width boards on the angled portion of the deck. On a 5.5" deck board, the 45 degree miter will have a diagonal of just over 7.77"

One option would be to rip the decking on the 45 degree section to 3.89" giving the miter angle of the narrow boards a length of 5.5". Framing would need to be tightened up on centers and perpendicular to decking.

Another option would be to picture frame the perimeter and run the decking into the perimeter board and miter into the "hip" joist at that intersection.

 

Mark how is that 4x4 attached to the house? Is it resting on that corner board, I cant quite see that.

 

Mark how is that 4x4 attached to the house? Is it resting on that corner board, I cant quite see that.

Heck if I know. I just found the pic in my collection.:whistling

Normally we would notch it to fit the ledgers on each side and either bolt through or lag into the ledger and house rim. In this case it looks like a downspout is in the way, so we must have lagged it on one side only. I think that it is a 6x6, by the way.

Thanks for asking:no:

 

Is there one step down from the top left section of the drawing? i wouldn't put the strips where the yellow lines are. I think someone said to put a strip down the center( where the center of the stairs is, but up on the deck) I'm not sure i'd like to see all those cut edges along the deck stairs but not much else you can do.

good luck and post some pics when you get it framed.

 

Wasn't thinking before posting.

 

You can also do this with a little more work.

 

Another decking options with a little extra framing.

 

Joe, can you do one more. Like the first one, except add some 1x or 2x trim along the deck edge. It will give you a little bit of the look of the picture framing in your second drawing with a lot less work, but a little bit more material.

 

I added a piece of 5/4 on the outside. I wrap the outside like this always .

 

I like pic 3

 

The second one is my preferred method.

 

There you go, that's the way I do it as well. Either that or I might parallel that outside edge of decking, like the 3rd example.

Now show him the framing for all those methods.:laughing:

 

I like the third one as well, Joe. An aerial shot is one thing, but IMO, the third option while standing on the deck would look great.
Steve

 

I like picture 2, I think the third one would look too weird with those little pieces of decking in the corner.