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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Balau wooden screens installed in Umhlanga Durban

    We installed these balau wooden screens in Umhlanga in Durban in early 2018. The brief was to provide some privacy to the upstairs verandah. There was originally a glass balustrade on this verandah and being at the end of a cul-de-sac this property’s verandah was very visible to vehicles and people driving or walking to…

  • 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…

  • Wooden Yellow Balau Deck – Kloof, Durban KZN

    Wooden Yellow Balau Deck – Kloof, Durban KZN

    Here’s another wooden deck we built in Kloof, Durban which is similar to one we built in Hawaan Forest estate a few years ago. It has a fire pit with a U Shaped bench which double up as steps around it. These steps were designed so that they were wide enough to sit around the…

  • Balau Timber Stairs Built in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban

    Balau Timber Stairs Built in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban

    These balau timber stairs that we built in Umhlanga are actually temporary stairs which will be removed at some point. They were built in order to gain access up the bank to a converted container that has been placed at the top. It is for a new development at Umhlanga Ridge and the converted container…

  • Balau vs CCA Treated Wooden Deck Durban

    Balau vs CCA Treated Wooden Deck Durban

    I often get asked about using balau as a substructure in a wooden deck. There are various pros and cons of using balau as a substructure in your wooden deck so I thought I would jot it down and in future I can direct clients here who want the ins and outs of using balau…

  • Wooden Decks Durban – Bluff

    Wooden Decks Durban – Bluff

    This wooden deck in Durban was the second phase of a job we started at the beginning of the year. We were originally asked to build a deck off the main bedroom. First we had to remove the aluminium window and install an aluminium sliding door. I always suggest that clients do this first so…

  • Reducing rot in wooden sun decks

    Reducing rot in wooden sun decks

    This article will focus solely on reducing rot in wooden sun decks rather than a specific article on a job we have completed. One of the first questions that are asked when planning to build a wooden deck is that of maintenance. Being wood, the deck will always be susceptible to rot and insect infestation,…

  • Jacuzzi Cladding – Umhlanga, Durban

    Jacuzzi Cladding – Umhlanga, Durban

    Jacuzzi cladding is a nice job to get hold of because it allows one to use up a lot of off cuts that would otherwise be useless in building say, a 20 square metre deck, as most of them are less than 1m in length. A lot of wood is wasted when erecting a wooden…