Category: Wooden Balustrades

  • Balau Timber Deck – Westville

    Here’s some before pics and some after pics of a deck in Westville that had rotted and was removed and replaced. The original deck had been built using H2 CCA Treated pine as a structure and what looked like balau deck boards and H2 CCA treated timber was used in the balustrade. See here for…

  • Wooden balau Deck Built in Umkomaas – KZN South Coast

    Wooden balau Deck Built in Umkomaas – KZN South Coast

    This wooden deck built in Umkomaas on the South Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal turned into a very nice job with many extras and a happy client who paid timeously. What a pleasure. We removed and dumped an existing pine deck that had started to show signs of failure in the deck boards themselves. The structure…

  • Wooden Balustrades

    Wooden Balustrades

    Wooden balustrades are necessary on all decks that are above 1m off the ground for safety reasons. Some people opt for them even if the deck is lower than 1m. They normally sit 1m above the deck surface but on decks which are higher than about 4m off the ground, it is recommended that one…

  • Stainless Steel Wire Rope Balustrades, Durban

    Stainless Steel Wire Rope Balustrades, Durban

    Below is an article on wire rope balustrades to refresh the methods of installing them, display some pictures and highlight some pros and cons of this type of balustrade. Wire rope balustrades are normally installed when one wants to avoid limiting the view as much as possible whilst still providing a barrier at the end…

  • Balustrades on Wooden Deck, Durban

    Balustrades on Wooden Deck, Durban

    There are a number of different types of wooden balustrades one can have built for your wooden deck. We offer this product in both Durban and Cape Town. I will run through a few options in this article and will mention the pros and cons of each one. There is a slide show above which…

  • Wooden Sun Decks and Wire Rope Balustrades

    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…

  • Wooden Balau Horizontal Balustrade using Deck Boards

    Wooden Balau Horizontal Balustrade using Deck Boards

    Wooden balau balustrades can be designed and built in many different ways. One gets traditional picket style wooden balustrades, which seem to be the most popular with nice clean straight vertical lines. There are the criss cross designs and criss cross with a box in the middle. These are all very basic descriptions for these…

  • Wooden Sun Decks Durban – Westville

    Wooden Sun Decks Durban – Westville

    This wooden sun deck we built in Westville Durban was designed to try to maximise outdoor space. The house we built it at had very little outdoor space as it was situated on a steep plot. You can see from the pics that before we built the wooden sun deck, the garden had only a…

  • Wooden Screens, Pergolas, Decks and Gates Durban

    Wooden Screens, Pergolas, Decks and Gates Durban

    We were asked to quote on wooden screens, wooden pergolas, wooden decks and wooden gates on a new build in Prestondale, an area north of Umhlanga, at a development called Izinga Ridge. We originally quoted in about June 2013 and the work was awarded to us for s start date of about 1 November 2013.…

  • 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…