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  • Outdoor Garden and Patio Furniture – Lutyens Bench

    Outdoor Garden and Patio Furniture – Lutyens Bench

    I was commissioned to make another outdoor Lutyens bench in balau, but this time it was to be painted white. I really battled this time around because I had misplaced the plans that were given to me on the first one I made. With the first one I made I was given the plans from…

  • Wooden Decks Durban – Paradise Valley Pinetown

    Wooden Decks Durban – Paradise Valley Pinetown

    This is a follow-up article on a previous article I wrote about a high level wooden deck we are building at Paradise Valley in Pinetown Durban. Click here for the original article. The poles proved to be quite a story getting up. We were 5 people on the day. The poles were 9m long and…

  • Wooden Decks Durban – Verulam

    Wooden Decks Durban – Verulam

    We recently had a good run of building wooden decks in Durban. With the arrival of summer and Christmas, wooden decks in Durban become a very popular item for consumers to spend their hard-earned cash. Despite trying to get jobs confirmed earlier on in the year, most of our work was confirmed in November and…

  • Wooden Decks Durban – Westville

    Wooden Decks Durban – Westville

    This wooden deck built in Westville Durban was built in record time. We have been experimenting with new techniques of building to make the task quicker yet still remain accurate, neat and structurally sound. It was a 35m² wooden deck with a balustrade on 3 sides and a gate. It was flush with the floor…

  • Screwing Deck Boards Down on a Wooden Deck in Durban

    Screwing Deck Boards Down on a Wooden Deck in Durban

    Here’s few videos of us screwing deck boards down on a wooden deck in Durban.  This wooden deck is 35 square metres in size.  It took us one day to get the complete substructure down and ready, and a 2nd day to screw down all deck boards.  Monday morning we will build the balustrade and…

  • High Level Wooden Deck Installed Durban

    High Level Wooden Deck Installed Durban

    Now here’s a challenge. We’ve been commissioned to build a deck 5.5m high on the lowest point. The highest point is about 7m off the ground. An engineer and architect have drawn plans and there is a strict spec we need to follow. Our H4 CCA treated gum poles are 9m in length. That’s too…

  • Wooden Deck Installed in Queensburgh, Durban

    Wooden Deck Installed in Queensburgh, Durban

    This wooden deck we are installing is almost complete. The pics alongside are work in progress pics. I’ll update it with some others once we are done and you can then get the full feel of the deck. It has been an interesting installation as there are effectively three sections to it and the whole…

  • Wooden Pool Deck Built in Westville, Durban

    Wooden Pool Deck Built in Westville, Durban

    This wooden deck was built in Westville, Durban in September 2013. There are two sections to the wooden deck, one being the deck around the pool and the other being the deck above the pool where the water flows back into the pool and the pot plants are housed. One way of decking around a…

  • Wooden Deck Built with Guarantee in Durban

    Wooden Deck Built with Guarantee in Durban

    As mentioned in some of my other articles we started offering supplier guarantees on our H3 CCA Treated pine substructures. These guarantees can run for up to 50 years from the date of installation. They are guaranteed by the manufacturer of the chemicals used in the treatment process and are underwritten by one of the…

  • Removing Carpet Glue from Solid Wooden Floors

    Removing Carpet Glue from Solid Wooden Floors

    A major problem that one encounters when refurbishing old wooden floors is that of carpet glue. When these floors were first covered by carpets, back in the day when thick pile carpets were popular, they used carpet glue to stick the carpets down. The good news is that it can be removed successfully. The majority…