Decks & Patios in Burbank
Freestanding decks, sloped patios and piped downspouts for Burbank yards with an ADU, planned by Cedarline Design Build to keep rain off both homes.
Standing a Burbank deck on its own beam, a few inches clear of the house wall, leaves no ledger joint for rain to soak into. That gap is one of several ways we keep water off the framing. Next to an ADU there is a second roof shedding onto the same yard, so the patio pitch, the downspout routes and the deck's footing heights get planned together.
Where the rain goes
A patio slab or paver field needs a slight fall away from every wall it touches, and with two buildings on the lot that can mean a high line down the middle and drainage toward the yard edges. Downspouts from the ADU are piped in solid line under the paving to a planted area or a dry well, so roof water never pours across the paved path. On a raised deck, joist tops get a strip of butyl tape and the posts stand on metal bases that hold the wood off wet concrete. Each choice is shown on the drawing so the inspector can check it in place.
Burbank plan review
Burbank is its own city, and its building division reviews decks and patio covers on Burbank lots. The reviewer reads footing sizes, beam spans, guard heights and how a cover's posts resist uplift. When the work is drawn beside an ADU, the site plan also shows each structure's distance from the lot lines and from the new unit, plus the drainage path. We list the boards, the post bases and the flashing on the sheet, which gives the inspector a short list to verify on site. Grading notes go on the same page, so a patio slope that sends water toward a neighbor gets caught on paper.
Decks & Patios in Burbank: common questions
Give each door its own hard surface and let the planted ground between them do the dividing. A small deck at the ADU entry and a patio off the main kitchen can sit at different heights, which marks the line clearly while a single drainage plan serves both.
Burbank's building division needs drawings for any deck higher than 30 inches above grade, any deck attached to a house and any roofed patio cover. A low freestanding platform may be exempt from a permit, yet it still has to respect setbacks, so we check its size and position first.
Yes. Putting the deck, the patio and any cover on the ADU set means the city reviews the lot once, and the drainage for both roofs is drawn on a single site plan. A later, separate submittal stays possible but repeats the review.
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