Category: Wooden Pool Decks

  • Wooden Deck Built in Padfield Park, Pinetown

    Wooden Deck Built in Padfield Park, Pinetown   This wooden deck was built in Doone Village Retirement Village in Padfield Park, Pinetown. We used an H3 and H4 CCA Treated substructure with 19 x 68mm balau deck boards. The balustrade was balau pots and capping with marine grade wire rope. It is always better to…

  • Wooden Deck Gillitts – July 2019

    The pics here are of a wooden deck we have just completed in Gillitts. The client wanted an old deck removed, dumped and a new one built with slight changes. It was built in the normal way using an H3 CCA treated substructure and balau deck boards of 19 x 68mm which is the most…

  • 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 Deck in Scottburgh, South Coast KZN

    This was a wooden deck built in balau for a client who had opened a Bed and Breakfast on the coast. As you can see form the pics the wooden deck was built in the front of the property overlooking the sea. There were of course strict time lines in which we had to complete…

  • Balau Wooden Deck, Kloof Durban

      Here’s a straight forward wooden balau deck we built in Kloof, Durban in October 2018. There were a few angles that had to be cut precisely to finish it neatly but other than that the deck was straight forward to build. We used an H3 and H4 CCA Treated pine substructure. Because the pine…

  • Balau pool deck and walkway – Kloof, Durban

    We engaged with Masslandscapes, a landscaper and garden designer (082 468 3759) on this balau pool deck project in Kloof, Durban to provide a solution for the client who wanted an area alongside their pool that they could utilise more. Before the project started there was the standard paved area of about 1m alongside the…

  • Cheap Wooden Deck Builders in Durban

    I was prompted to write this article on cheap wooden deck builders in Durban for various reasons and to highlight some of the dangers of using the cheapest wooden deck builder that you can find. Being South African we all should know the Afrikaans saying “goedkoop is deurkoop”. Or loosely translated to English “you get…

  • Wooden Balau Decking Companies in Durban

      Here’s a wooden deck we at The Wood Joint built in Durban recently. The Wood Joint is a wooden decking company situated in Durban and servicing most of KZN. It was a low-level wooden deck basically at ground level joining the pool to the patio and semi surrounds. The site was situated in la…

  • Composite Deck Boards vs Hardwood Balau Decking

    I’ve often been asked to quote, on or at least comment on, composite decking. Firstly we need to have a look at what composite deck boards are. Composite deck boards are generally made from plastic and saw dust which can be anything from saw dust, wood chips to wood fibre pieces or bamboo. They can…

  • 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…