It could have been to pass inspection and was only meant to be temporary. If you have an exterior door, there are guidelines and codes you have to follow to make it legal. I.e steps need to be a certain height, railings are required at a certain height. If they weren’t ready to spend real deck money but wanted to get their occupancy permit, this is one way around it. Or it’s just a poor man’s smokin porch
lol one time years ago my friend was in the car with a couple friends. His friend, the driver, rubber necks at this woman walking down the sidewalk. He says, did you guys see that??
She was smoking a cigarette! Both friends say, yeah, so what? He says, you know if she’s willing to put something that nasty in her mouth, she’ll put ANYTHING in her mouth!
Yep, I have family where the law is ridiculous; that the initial build is limited to a certain size... Remodels however, do what you want (still, to code). So the build this kind of deck just to get it inspected and then remodeled.
My mother had inherited her mother's house in an old beachfront area in Virginia, and sold it to a church. Come to find, there was no way that the site would be approved for new construction due to wildly not meeting setback or lot size requirements, had they demolished it first. So, they "renovated" it by stripping it down to the studs and rebuilt it as an exact replica (only in much, much better condition.)
Probably to let pets sunbath without fear of other animal threats. I was always nervous to tie up our small dog outside unattended due to coyotes in the area.
Could be a house with a wheelchair bound individual and to keep them from Rolling off the deck as they sit outside every morning to watch the day start.
But I'm guessing there was an deck there originally and to maybe sell the house they did not want to fix the deck so they just made a smaller one. And there's probably an AC unit underneath it.
Clearly it's someone building their deck like in the sims, they could only afford the one block for now and will expand on their next paycheck with another few squares.
That's weird. My new construction house is just boarded up on the back. No stairs, just grass. I feel comforted knowing that I won't take a drunken fall thinking there's something there...lol
Probably had a door there but didn't want to spend lots of money on a deck with stairs so they build a 3'x3' platform with full railing to be code compliant.
All i can picture is how down my heroin user uncle in his wheelchair would be to smoke cigs and drink vodka out of a cottage cheese container in the morning sun on that deck.
New build, regular deck was not included but they needed to pass inspection. I have seen railings installed across sliding doors blocking them for the same reason.
We just did this with the house we renated... front door is supposed to be a masonry porch that we didnt do b/c of cost so.we built a small deck with a solid railing as a temporary solution to pass code. We didnt need it for egress because the house has three other 36" doors.
It could have been to pass inspection and was only meant to be temporary. If you have an exterior door, there are guidelines and codes you have to follow to make it legal. I.e steps need to be a certain height, railings are required at a certain height. If they weren’t ready to spend real deck money but wanted to get their occupancy permit, this is one way around it. Or it’s just a poor man’s smokin porch