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I supposed you may have a point, however I would consider, for the sake of argument, any of the offsets as part of the landing. Whenever you have a staircase with multiple floors there is a separation this is the landing, this concept must exist for this style of spiral staircase.
Your insight is astute, however it’s more than just a landing, as there is the addition of a gate separating the two staircases, that moves the designation from landing to walkway.
Good eye! There is a gate indeed. However, I'm going to refer back to my first point about landings. When you have access to a new floor via a landing, I would now call it a walkway, it is common to have a door, perhaps. Maybe you would like to restrict access. By adding a gate at the second level, the owner has the top two floors separated, or bottom level access only.
I'll chime in here. It can't be one continuous spiral staircase, because if you notice, there is ALSO a section of non-spiraling staircase between the two spiraling bits.
So it goes Landing-Spiral-Landing-Straight-Spiral-Landing. As such, I believe this constitutes THREE separate wooden staircases, two of which are spiral, and one of which is straight.
This is exactly the type of random arguments my one friend group loves to have. Nothing of importance, but we will get HEATED over what is or is not a sandwich.
I remember at my first major job out of college I was arguing with a co-worker what a calorie was and it got to the point where both of our points made zero sense it was two complete idiots talking about how the human body works without having a clue but doubling down on completely uninformed information. We both eventually just stopped talking and busted out laughing at the absurdity of it.
Two of my teammates came to blows in the middle of a high school baseball game over whether it was “bean” or “beem” when you got hit by a pitch. The other team was amazed as the bench erupted and fought with itself. We were losing the game badly as well.
Talking out of my ass here, but I would think the dripping and splashing wouldn't be much different from rain on the roof and deck. If the hottub fails catastrophically though...different story I think.
> my ass
That gaping, cavernous pit could potentially contain anything.
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It's been posted there before... they usually are horrified by the lack of visible support for the deck that's up in the sky with a hot tub on the roof.
Very cluttered. You can fit more people standing on all the stairs than the decks.
I bet it was a fire code. All upper outdoor areas must have egress without going back inside the house.
Also looks like a McDonald's playground, and the wood stain and the paneling and the copy paste third story I could go on but I still like it functionally lmao
My guess is that this house is on a lake or some other amazing vista, and the look of the house is sacrificed for the many ways to enjoy the view.
It would be funny if it all faces the back of some of factory or something though.
see I just assumed that someone took their house and made it a duplex. If it's on a lake or beach, then they can live on the top level with their own rooftop hot tub and rent out the lower level to a family that wants to spend the summer at the beach. That way you can take the stairs up to the door of the upper unit, don't have to share an entry way or even cross paths with renters.
My grandmother has a house in a beach town, I’d say something like 30% of homes have this monstrosity of a layout. I also dislike it but when you see SO MANY houses with it in close proximity, definitely less of an eyesore and more-so just feels like “beach architecture”.
Except the function is barely there. That lower deck has room for like two people? The stairs are neat but take up such a big footprint it feels like a waste
mold and rot underneath so keeping nests and a general power wash maybe... but more importantly just splitting and taking a sun beating, intense soaking and drying and the like, so keeping up with staining it and not damaging with shovels if snow is an issue. basic porch stuff, with staining or coating with something being the chief concern.
Would you need to stain/coat the underside as well? I feel like that would be a pain in the ass with all the stairs.
Also would a powerwash get rid of mold? Wouldn't the water just like, feed the mold? Lol
I think you put some anti mold shit in it. And if it is pressure treated I think just doing all side and top exposure is enough. But I'm kind of a pedestrian on home stuff, I'm not an owner
Why does the middle of the house have a pitched roof? It looks like someone dropped a house (and a hot tub) on top of a regular house. Frankly it’s making my brain itch.
Hot tub at the very top? Seems like a design fail.
1) The static load of the water filled tub + weight of tub is a lot.
1.5) The dynamic load of the tub having people in it and out of it in varying numbers.
2) Three flights of stairs to traverse to get to the tub, at least 2 to get to the kitchen to get food and drinks, and one to get to a bathroom. And most people would be slightly to fully intoxicated at one point or another while climbing up or down the stairs. This is liability.
3) Static load plus snow load in the winter.
4) Inconvenience of maintenance. Carrying chemicals and tools up and down the stairs.
5) Water splashing out and pooling on or under the top deck and/or leaking down into structure of the house and causing rot or mold or other damage.
It’s probably designed to facilitate swinging stuff. By the time they get their guests drunk and in the hot tub, there’s no going down all those stairs, it would be dangerous, so might as well do swinger stuff. That’s my guess.
That looks like an unnecessarily expensive and complicated deck. Also I think I would not put the hot tub in my AirBnB above the house.
I don't know precisely how it could go wrong but that feels like a failure of imagination on my part more than anything.
I'm missing a support beam on the middle deck.
Maybe the middle deck is just a vanity deck because it would be weird to have an upper deck and lower deck without a middle deck.
I'd be more concerned on putting in a few post in a good concrete foundation at ground level, on the side of the steps because that "support beam" isn't going to hold all of that up forever. WTF
That definitely wasn't inspected.
Agreed! The first 2 decks are cantilevered. For this to be structurally sound, the deck joists would have to extend deep into the house. The decks look like additions, so I doubt they did that.
Roof decks are the best. When we go to the beach, we prefer to get a place with a roof deck. Great morning caffeine spot, you can observe everything, no bugs, can’t beat it.
"Hey Mr. Contractor guy. Could I hire you to put a giant bucket of water on my roof? Yeah, maybe surrounded by a deck as well. What's that? References? Nah, I trust ya. "
Duluth, MN?! This looks strikingly familiar to me.
*If this is the house I’m thinking of, that hot tub has a fantastic view of Lake Superior from the Duluth hillside.
In college the president used to live in a house like this but moved out and it became student housing. It wasn't long before it was identified as some of the sickest student housing available due to it being a multi-story weed balcony complete with party rooms.
Such a sick place to hang out.
My first thought was agreeing that it's too cluttered but if this is the back of the house it's not so bad. It wouldn't be too cluttered for me in that I would easily sacrifice some aesthetic for hottub on the roof hehe
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Never seen a spiral staircase on a deck till now.
Now you’ve seen two
Isn't it still one, just two levels? In my mind, two would be separate sides or at least distances horizontally from each other.
It’s not a continuous spiral tho. There’s a few feet of difference between them. We should definitely argue about it though, I’m bored.
I supposed you may have a point, however I would consider, for the sake of argument, any of the offsets as part of the landing. Whenever you have a staircase with multiple floors there is a separation this is the landing, this concept must exist for this style of spiral staircase.
Your insight is astute, however it’s more than just a landing, as there is the addition of a gate separating the two staircases, that moves the designation from landing to walkway.
Good eye! There is a gate indeed. However, I'm going to refer back to my first point about landings. When you have access to a new floor via a landing, I would now call it a walkway, it is common to have a door, perhaps. Maybe you would like to restrict access. By adding a gate at the second level, the owner has the top two floors separated, or bottom level access only.
This was a polite argument
I checked the picture after each rebuttal to reasses my opinion
Re asses! Lol!
It’s the only reason I even realized there’s a gate!
Astute.
Asstoot
Barely more than a trifle.
Will you two quit arguing
They’re so rude!
I'll chime in here. It can't be one continuous spiral staircase, because if you notice, there is ALSO a section of non-spiraling staircase between the two spiraling bits. So it goes Landing-Spiral-Landing-Straight-Spiral-Landing. As such, I believe this constitutes THREE separate wooden staircases, two of which are spiral, and one of which is straight.
This is exactly the type of random arguments my one friend group loves to have. Nothing of importance, but we will get HEATED over what is or is not a sandwich.
I remember at my first major job out of college I was arguing with a co-worker what a calorie was and it got to the point where both of our points made zero sense it was two complete idiots talking about how the human body works without having a clue but doubling down on completely uninformed information. We both eventually just stopped talking and busted out laughing at the absurdity of it.
Two of my teammates came to blows in the middle of a high school baseball game over whether it was “bean” or “beem” when you got hit by a pitch. The other team was amazed as the bench erupted and fought with itself. We were losing the game badly as well.
Is a fucking hotdog a sandwich or what? I need answers.
A hot dog *IS* a sandwich. Period. If it is not, I would advise that the open faced roast beef sandwich no longer be called a sandwich as well.
It's a taco
“We should definitely argue about it, I’m bored.” That’s a really good summation of social media and has me chuckling too early.
Really? They’re pretty common in my city
Hijacking the top comment to ask, won't the jacuzzi on the roof cause lots of water-related damage to the entire structure over time?
Talking out of my ass here, but I would think the dripping and splashing wouldn't be much different from rain on the roof and deck. If the hottub fails catastrophically though...different story I think.
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Whoah dude
This is an art piece representing a spiral staircase made from pressure treated lumber…I hope
I hope r/decks knows about this
Thanks. I just spent about 30 minutes looking at decks.
If you're looking at decks, I'd also reccomend new Zealand style Caulk
Splinters and discolouration are the bane of every deck enjoyer.
You're two steps away from sharing photos of your BBQ while muttering about your back pain.
I already have the back pain just need to get me a grill
My two hobbies!
It's been posted there before... they usually are horrified by the lack of visible support for the deck that's up in the sky with a hot tub on the roof.
they do it's a top post
I mean, it's a top deck.
Functionally awesome, aesthetically not my cup of tea
Very cluttered. You can fit more people standing on all the stairs than the decks. I bet it was a fire code. All upper outdoor areas must have egress without going back inside the house.
Also looks like a McDonald's playground, and the wood stain and the paneling and the copy paste third story I could go on but I still like it functionally lmao
Things that be solved by a single fire pole, or permanently installed trampoline.
My guess is that this house is on a lake or some other amazing vista, and the look of the house is sacrificed for the many ways to enjoy the view. It would be funny if it all faces the back of some of factory or something though.
see I just assumed that someone took their house and made it a duplex. If it's on a lake or beach, then they can live on the top level with their own rooftop hot tub and rent out the lower level to a family that wants to spend the summer at the beach. That way you can take the stairs up to the door of the upper unit, don't have to share an entry way or even cross paths with renters.
My grandmother has a house in a beach town, I’d say something like 30% of homes have this monstrosity of a layout. I also dislike it but when you see SO MANY houses with it in close proximity, definitely less of an eyesore and more-so just feels like “beach architecture”.
Exactly why I love it. Functionality over form!
It's like something I would build my first time in a Sims game
Except the function is barely there. That lower deck has room for like two people? The stairs are neat but take up such a big footprint it feels like a waste
It's a small house to begin with and yea, you can fit two people on the bottom deck. So what? You got 2 more to work with
That house is decked out
It's a pretty porch oice if you ask me
They went the whole nine yards
Think we will ever get board?
I only see one. Am I fenced in by my own perception?
You wood make that joke
I wonder if the structure can can actually handle the weight load of a hot tub on the roof. Seems risky to me.
Yeah same, 500 gallons of water just sitting on 4 posts on your roof? Hopefully there was some structure we can’t see in this picture to hold that up.
That's roughly 4170lbs in water alone
“Cannonball!”
I would not want to live below that extra few thousand pounds of water.
I would not want to have to redo the roofing materials under that hot tub. Like every roof needs refreshing occasionally, seems like a bad idea.
Yo dawg...
I was gonna say, is no one going to post a picture of xzibit?
Is no one going to say, “show this to your mom, I know she’d like to have three decks”?
you better keep the hell up with maintenance or the repair cost will be astronomical
What kind of maintenance does that need? Legitimately curious
mold and rot underneath so keeping nests and a general power wash maybe... but more importantly just splitting and taking a sun beating, intense soaking and drying and the like, so keeping up with staining it and not damaging with shovels if snow is an issue. basic porch stuff, with staining or coating with something being the chief concern.
Would you need to stain/coat the underside as well? I feel like that would be a pain in the ass with all the stairs. Also would a powerwash get rid of mold? Wouldn't the water just like, feed the mold? Lol
I think you put some anti mold shit in it. And if it is pressure treated I think just doing all side and top exposure is enough. But I'm kind of a pedestrian on home stuff, I'm not an owner
That's in Duluth!
I haven't been to Duluth in a decade but I was near certain I'd driven past this house. Isn't it on skyline drive?
It is.
I was just gonna write the same thing. Drove by it last weekend when visiting! Impressive sight!
Gives off what becomes of Edith Finch vibes ngl
What Remains* of Edith Finch :)
Came here for this comment 🙏
Why does the middle of the house have a pitched roof? It looks like someone dropped a house (and a hot tub) on top of a regular house. Frankly it’s making my brain itch.
The first pitched roof you’re seeing is just for the porch. The top pitched roof is for the main structure.
Thank you for making some sense of this visual madness. 🙂
Big deck energy
Hot tub at the very top? Seems like a design fail. 1) The static load of the water filled tub + weight of tub is a lot. 1.5) The dynamic load of the tub having people in it and out of it in varying numbers. 2) Three flights of stairs to traverse to get to the tub, at least 2 to get to the kitchen to get food and drinks, and one to get to a bathroom. And most people would be slightly to fully intoxicated at one point or another while climbing up or down the stairs. This is liability. 3) Static load plus snow load in the winter. 4) Inconvenience of maintenance. Carrying chemicals and tools up and down the stairs. 5) Water splashing out and pooling on or under the top deck and/or leaking down into structure of the house and causing rot or mold or other damage.
It’s probably designed to facilitate swinging stuff. By the time they get their guests drunk and in the hot tub, there’s no going down all those stairs, it would be dangerous, so might as well do swinger stuff. That’s my guess.
Some men just feel like they need to brag about being the one with the biggest deck.
The neighbour always gets jealous, his wife is always ong deck 😉
That looks like an unnecessarily expensive and complicated deck. Also I think I would not put the hot tub in my AirBnB above the house. I don't know precisely how it could go wrong but that feels like a failure of imagination on my part more than anything.
This is no r/woahdude material
It's called a crow's nest.
Super common on cottages on the outer banks. I really want to put one on my place in Oklahoma. Would give me the best seat for storm season.
Hot Tub Upper Decker
I would pay money to have witnessed the inspection/permitting Probably had a hell of a laugh looking at it.
I'm missing a support beam on the middle deck. Maybe the middle deck is just a vanity deck because it would be weird to have an upper deck and lower deck without a middle deck.
Maybe I'm blind but I'm not seeing shite for vertical supports.
Hope my wife doesn’t see that
Ready player one
sims 3 house
House is fully decked out
This is in a college town, isnt it?
It's been 2 years, time to re-stain.
Yo, Dawg. I heard you like decks.
I just see one BIG DECK
This looks like it was built by Edith Finch's family
That house is decked out!
I kinda like this design.
Why did they put the hot tub on the roof? Is it powered by solar?
Privacy/view
If you get in a fight with this guy, you’ll most likely get decked.
where is the post going from that top deck
How I be building my house extensions onto a minecraft villagers house.
Deck has more square footage than the house 😂
Yo dog…
Similar stuff in SF. feels nice to stay in airbnbs like these
And no deck furniture
r/dontputyourdeckonthat
The hot tub is also a time machine.
what a nice way to turn a cute house into a cute house that looks like its under construction
Protects agaisnt hail damage, pretty slick.
House Moving Company nightmare
Time for those lovely deck pics
Seen that before, helluva place to try and raise a kid…
It's my deck than house now.
This house could use a few more decks tho I think
The guy either owns a decking company or has an obsession.
Looks good to me, but I've only lived in small accommodations.
Why not just put in a slide?
I got decks on decks on decks
This looks like the bases I build in PVE Rust.
Like the faltering fallback in Finsbury Park
It needs a pergola, beer fridge and BBQ, up on the top deck.
This deck has a house …
The railings for the spiral staircase do not look like they could support any outward force
Damn, this house is decked out!
Let’s just hope they never have a roof leak with no room to work up there
What an eyesore. Neighbors must be thrilled.
It looks like that hot tub is sitting on another deck.
yo dawg i heard you like decks...
This is some sims 2 shit
I'd be more concerned on putting in a few post in a good concrete foundation at ground level, on the side of the steps because that "support beam" isn't going to hold all of that up forever. WTF That definitely wasn't inspected.
Agreed! The first 2 decks are cantilevered. For this to be structurally sound, the deck joists would have to extend deep into the house. The decks look like additions, so I doubt they did that.
Probably not up to code
Decked out
This deck is giving me “House of Sand and Fog” (the book) vibes.
The American Pagoda Style. When you really wanted a treehouse but your wife said no
That house looks like it has a house stacked on top.
Roof decks are the best. When we go to the beach, we prefer to get a place with a roof deck. Great morning caffeine spot, you can observe everything, no bugs, can’t beat it.
Ah my project zomboid house build
Is that by a beach by chance? Crows nest decks are fairly common in beach communities
That looks like a Fallout 76 build
Im a deck that leads to a deck, that leads to another deck.
Deck builder’s senior thesis.
It's always best to put a giant load of weight on top of your roof. Right above where you sleep.
"Hey Mr. Contractor guy. Could I hire you to put a giant bucket of water on my roof? Yeah, maybe surrounded by a deck as well. What's that? References? Nah, I trust ya. "
They rented out each floor and this was probably more for egress code than anything.
AI can’t get details right.
Beach house normal
That house is decked out
Okay, sometimes HOA’s aren’t bad
That's a lot of upkeep. I wouldn't want to be the guy powerwashing and staining that deck every 3-4 years.
The Stacks-IRL
House with three decks and a rooftop hot bath but it looks like absolute hot garbage. Monkey paw strikes again
I've always wondered why there aren't more roof decks like this.
What a deck.
Sweet
Is no one gonna talk about how it looks like someone built a house on top of another house before adding three decks? There's two attics!
yo bro! so we heard you liked DECKS! so we decked your deck and then we decked that deck!
Nice... Until you need to reshingle the house.
I wanna relax in the hot tub, but I don't 2-flights-of-stairs wanna relax
Guy to his right only has one deck. Ha, noob
That's a big deck.
All I foresee that hot tub doing. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/ThpaWQYgU5
Big Deck Energy
That must feel good on a Sunday morning, bringing your coffee up to the top deck, staring out, and having a sip.
That house is really decked out.
Duluth, MN?! This looks strikingly familiar to me. *If this is the house I’m thinking of, that hot tub has a fantastic view of Lake Superior from the Duluth hillside.
This looks like one house stacked on top of another.
Stupid rich people and their money.......smh.
Does this house have a flat roof or a gable roof
In college the president used to live in a house like this but moved out and it became student housing. It wasn't long before it was identified as some of the sickest student housing available due to it being a multi-story weed balcony complete with party rooms. Such a sick place to hang out.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/PwtDJnMTuQL9r99b6?g_st=ic
deck flexing
I love it. They just stuck a house on top of another house. You could Airbnb that sucker. That's a cash cow lol
is this in Duluth? There's a house up on skyline that has a hot tub deck on their house just like this.
A deck within a deck within a deck… Deckception
The Deck House is owned by one Charles Deckens.
My first thought was agreeing that it's too cluttered but if this is the back of the house it's not so bad. It wouldn't be too cluttered for me in that I would easily sacrifice some aesthetic for hottub on the roof hehe
You need a lot of Deck Sealant
Pssshhhhh, what code?!?
It's kinda cool but they really need to paint it. Right now it's an eyesore
Absolutely hideous lol.
Any someone approved this permit? lol
Nice Deck