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Category: Wooden Deck Builder Durban

  • 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…

  • Laying Balau Deck Boards Down

    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…

  • Wooden Balau Deck Built in Malvern, Durban

    Wooden Balau Deck Built in Malvern, Durban

    Building a wooden deck in Malvern, Durban using balau deck boards

  • 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…

  • Wooden Pool Deck Built in Westville, Durban

    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…

  • Balau Wooden Sundeck Built in Kloof, Durban

    Balau Wooden Sundeck Built in Kloof, Durban

    Here’s a balau wooden sundeck we’ve just built on Kloof, just inland of Durban. We used a 19 x 90 balau deck board on this wooden sun deck at the client’s request. We normally use a 19 x 68 balau deck board as they are considerably less expensive per square metre than the 19 x…

  • 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…

  • CCA Treated Substructures in Wooden Sundecks – Durban

    CCA Treated Substructures in Wooden Sundecks – Durban

    As I’ve mentioned in previous articles we use a H3 CCA treated pine substructure which the suppliers offer a 50 year guarantee on. In order to activate that guarantee we need to adhere to best practices and there are a few things that we need to do, and document by way of pics.  Although all…

  • Timber Decks Durban – Umhlanga

    Timber Decks Durban – Umhlanga

    This existing timber deck in Umhlanga Durban had reached a point of no return and our recommendation to the client was that we remove it and replace it. It’s never a good thing to hear that you must throw it away and buy a new one because it can’t be fixed, but often wooden decks…