Category: Wooden Balustrades

  • 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 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…

  • Stairs and Balustrade – Durban North – July 2011

    Stairs and Balustrade – Durban North – July 2011

    This wooden stair job started off as just a few stairs to gain access to the granny flat from the other side of the garden and then progressed into a small balustrade on either side too. The client originally had a fence there of CCA pine slats which we had to remove and then build…

  • Wooden Deck Built in Toti at a Guest House

    Wooden Deck Built in Toti at a Guest House

    This was one of my first wooden decks in Durban that I undertook. The Guest House we built it for had just opened up the side of the dining room on the first floor with sliding doors and now wanted to extend the area by adding a deck of about 14m². It is always important…

  • Wooden Balustrade Built in Everton – May 2013

    Wooden Balustrade Built in Everton – May 2013

    This wooden balustrade we built in Everton Kloof, Durban was for an established client of ours that we have done various amounts of work for in the past. She had had some stairs built in brick and concrete down the bank to access the lower level of her property. We had to wait a few…

  • Timber Sundecks in Durban

    Timber Sundecks in Durban

    “Summertime ….. And The Livin’ is Easy “… Or it CAN be !! …Yes, with the South African summer right on the doorstep now, what’s the best Christmas present you could give to your family (and yourself)? (This one won’t fit into a Christmas stocking however …) Ponder and Dream of how ‘lekker’ it would…

  • Wire Rope Balustrades

    Wire Rope Balustrades

    Wire rope balustrades are quite common nowadays especially if a modern and sophisticated look is required. There are two types of wire rope balustrades available.  The first is a 5mm stainless steel cable or rope attached to the uprights of the balustrade which should be balau of about 60mm x 60mm.  This is attached using…

  • Timber or Wooden Balustrades

    Timber or Wooden Balustrades

    Timber balustrades are built in various designs and various different timbers can be used. The most affordable hardwood of course being balau with more expensive options being Massaranduba, keuring etc. The pieces required for balustrades are most commonly found in balau as they form part of the structural pieces stocked by most timber merchants. Massaranduba,…