Timber Advice & Project Stories
Practical guidance and real project notes from more than a decade of building decks, pergolas and outdoor timber structures in KZN.
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Wooden Decking Durban
We built this wooden deck in Pinetown, Durban over a well so could not rest any joists on the well lid itself. Normally we would have raised the height of the deck enough to use 50 x 228 as joists. A 50 x 228 piece of wood can be spanned about 3m without any support…
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Wooden Decking Companies in Durban
There are many wooden decking companies in Durban that one can choose from when planning to install a wooden deck. Some are reputable companies and some are not, as in any industry. Besides comparing price one should always compare services to make sure you are comparing like quotes. Some wooden decking companies in Durban for…
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Wooden Balau Walkway Umhlanga, Durban
This wooden balau walkway, or bridge, leading to the beach, needed to be replaced as the old one, although it was nearly 20 years old, had started sinking on one side. It had been built on beach sand so the concrete that had been used to set the upright posts had sunk over time into…
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Wooden Deck Built in Hillcrest, Durban
Here’s video of a wooden deck we built recently in Hillcrest, Durban showing the different stages of the build. Give us a call for a quote on your wooden sun deck, wooden pergolas, walkways, bridges, floors or fences on 082 496 5444 or use the contact us form below.
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Wooden Sun Decks and Wire Rope Balustrades
A wire rope balustrade on a wooden sun deck, as pictured in this article, has a few pros and cons to it which I will discuss below. I will also describe the method used to install wire rope balustrades and what to be careful of to ensure that the job runs smoothly. If you don’t…
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Laying Balau Deck Boards Down
This video shows how we have laid these deck boards without ending on a half deck board or a wedge-shaped deck board. Most often two opposite walls will not be exactly the same length and they certainly won’t be designed to accommodate an exact amount of deck boards with a uniform gap. What can happen…
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Wooden Balau Deck Built in Malvern, Durban
Building a wooden deck in Malvern, Durban using balau deck boards
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Substructure on Low Level Wooden Pool Deck
We are busy with a new wooden pool deck build in Hillcrest, Durban and I have taken a video to show how the substructure is built before the deck boards go down. This is a low-level wooden pool deck that we are building which is only about 200mm off the ground. Because it is…
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Wooden Balau Pool Pump Covers
Here’s some pool pump covers we built for a client using balau wood. He had just refurbished his house completely and had added a koi pond and therefore a pump and filter system too. He had built a solid brick wall around the system and wanted to cover it with wooden balau lids that he…
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Wooden Pool Deck Built in Westville, Durban
Here was a nice size wooden sun deck, or pool deck, we built of approximately 60m². I say a nice size because at that size one can reduce the costs slightly, pass a saving on to the client, and make a little bit more money on the job. This wooden sun deck was built around…