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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Balau Cladding or Screening

    Balau Cladding or Screening

    Balau cladding or screening of brick walls is quite popular and attractive. It takes an otherwise boring brick, plaster or concrete look and transforms it into a beautiful wooden clad structure. It can of course be clad balau or any other timber, but balau being the most popular outdoor timber for cladding of brick walls.…

  • Solid Wood Floors – All Brown Teak End Matched

    Solid Wood Floors – All Brown Teak End Matched

    These solid wood floors were installed in Hluhluwe in a house that was being renovated by the new owner on a farm. We used all brown teak, end matched. Most of our teak in South Africa comes from Zimbabwe and they are not allowing teak to leave the country without being machined there. So they…

  • Wooden Pergola Built in La Lucia, Durban

    Wooden Pergola Built in La Lucia, Durban

    This was an interesting wooden pergola we built in Durban. Most often pergolas are built using planed all round pieces (PAR) in the traditional pergola design which is vertical posts to support the structure and horizontal purlins of varying width and thickness to cover the top. Wooden pergolas don’t really offer any functional benefit as…

  • Nailing Solid Wood Floor Boards

    Nailing Solid Wood Floor Boards

    Nailing solid wood floor boards down can be a time-consuming job if done manually. When nailing tongue and groove floor boards down, one needs to nail the nail through the tongue at 45° and counter sink it slightly so that the next floor board can be slotted in over the nail making it invisible. If…

  • Wooden Post and Rail Fencing Durban

    Wooden Post and Rail Fencing Durban

    A wooden post and rail fence is an attractive boundary to your property. Although they have large gaps between the rails and posts they can be made secure by adding weldmesh as we did in this one in Summerveld. Wooden Post and Rail fences are traditionally associated with horse farms as in their normal state…

  • Wooden Sun Deck Repairs – Durban

    Wooden Sun Deck Repairs – Durban

    Besides our main activity of sundeck building in Durban, we also maintain and repair sundecks. Wooden sun deck repairs need to be performed from time to time and the sooner they are attended to the better. If a wooden deck is constructed correctly these repairs can be kept to a minimum, but from time to,…

  • 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…