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  • Indoor Wooden Balau Pool Deck Built in Estcourt

    Indoor Wooden Balau Pool Deck Built in Estcourt

    Here’s an indoor wooden balau pool deck we built in Estcourt KZN recently.  The client had been doing some renovations on his house and had enclosed the pool with brick walls and windows resulting in an indoor pool.  He wanted a wooden deck around it to finish it off nicely. Careful consideration was needed to…

  • Wooden Deck and Stairs Built in Umhlanga, Durban

    Wooden Deck and Stairs Built in Umhlanga, Durban

    This wooden deck we built for a client in Umhlanga, Durban was a suspended wooden deck about 2.8m off the ground. The idea was to make use of the flat concrete roof as a deck because the views from up there are of Durban Anchorage where ships anchor before proceeding to Durban port.  The views…

  • Timber Suppliers in Durban

    Timber Suppliers in Durban

    As a spin-off of our deck building activities in Durban we started buying and selling decking timber. We found that due to the volume of timber we purchase we can secure it at a better rate and therefore provide it to the end-user, or contractor, at competitive rates. We carry the most common decking timber…

  • Balau Timber Stairs Built in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban

    Balau Timber Stairs Built in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban

    These balau timber stairs that we built in Umhlanga are actually temporary stairs which will be removed at some point. They were built in order to gain access up the bank to a converted container that has been placed at the top. It is for a new development at Umhlanga Ridge and the converted container…

  • Galvanised Steel and Balau Pergola, Durban

    Galvanised Steel and Balau Pergola, Durban

    Here’s a steel and timber pergola we installed shortly before shut down in 2015 in Gateway Umhlanga Rocks Durban. It was for a new building called 1 on Lunar neat Gateway Hospital. Due to the size of the pergola and the distance the beams needed to span between supports, we needed to include steel as…

  • Balau Timber Pool Deck, La Lucia, Durban

    Balau Timber Pool Deck, La Lucia, Durban

    Here’s a wooden pool deck we built in La Lucia, Durban recently. In the gallery above you can see pics of the old deck and then pics of the new deck. The old wooden pool deck had started to rot at critical points. The reason for rot in many wooden decks is that the screw…

  • Wooden Pool Deck Building in Summerveld, Durban

    Wooden Pool Deck Building in Summerveld, Durban

    We built this wooden pool deck in Summerveld, Durban in July 2015. There were various challenges in this wooden pool deck build which tested our skills somewhat. Firstly the ground in Summerveld is very rocky, in fact in some areas it is just one large rock, and when digging you are actually making a small…

  • Wooden Pool Deck Built in Kloof, Durban

    This wooden deck was a simple pool deck that we built in Kloof, Durban. The pool had originally been built at an angle to the house which limited the available space between the house and pool. The client wanted to create a wooden deck that was parallel to the house so that he could maximise…

  • Balau vs CCA Treated Wooden Deck Durban

    Balau vs CCA Treated Wooden Deck Durban

    I often get asked about using balau as a substructure in a wooden deck. There are various pros and cons of using balau as a substructure in your wooden deck so I thought I would jot it down and in future I can direct clients here who want the ins and outs of using balau…

  • Wooden Deck, Umhlanga, Durban

    Wooden Deck, Umhlanga, Durban

    Here’s a wooden decking project we completed in Hawaan Forest Estate, Umhlanga, Durban. There were two houses right next door to each other so it was a bit easier on the pocket when it came to travel to site. The whole job was quite big too, in excess of 200 square metres of coverage, so…