Tag: timber

  • Choosing a Wooden Deck Builder in Durban

    Choosing a Wooden Deck Builder in Durban

    There are many wooden deck builders in Durban. With a simple search on Google you will find a few companies on page 1. If you trawl the various magazines that advertise home improvement services, you will find many there too. There are also various portals on the net that list these companies. Most of these…

  • Wooden Decking Durban

    Wooden Decking Durban

    I haven’t written or posted an article on wooden decking in Durban here for a while. The main reason is that we have been extremely busy building wooden sundecks in Durban. It is quite odd to be this busy in the middle of winter. Normally people want their sundecks built-in summer and winter is traditionally…

  • Wooden Balau Deck Built in The Bluff – February 2012

    Wooden Balau Deck Built in The Bluff – February 2012

    The Bluff is a wonderful place for a wooden deck builder in Durban. A lot of the properties there have relatively steep gardens and lend themselves well to installing wooden decks. It allows the property owner to make use of land which would have otherwise not been usable. This property was very steep with a…

  • 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,…

  • Wooden Sundeck Constructed in Toti Durban

    Wooden Sundeck Constructed in Toti Durban

    This wooden sundeck we constructed in Durban was a low-level deck which was barely off ground level. We were taking it flush off the level of the floor in the lounge and extending it outwards into the garden. The grass was not growing properly in this area due to large trees that were creating a…

  • 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…

  • Balau Screening in Cotswold Downs – June 2013

    Balau Screening in Cotswold Downs – June 2013

    We were called upon to quote on some balau screening in the Hillcrest, Durban area at a new development called Cotswold Downs. There were various aircons, heat pumps and gas bottles that needed to be clad or screened so as to conceal them. We used balau 30 x 40 struts or cleats attached to the…

  • Wooden Stair Case Build Durban

    Wooden Stair Case Build Durban

    This wooden stair case build by The Wood Joint in Durban was a tricky one. The client was a committee member on the body corporate for a small block of flats in Durban. There were about 4 units in the block and the existing steel fire escape had rusted to a point where it was…

  • Wooden Sundeck Built in Gillitts – April 2013

    Wooden Sundeck Built in Gillitts – April 2013

    This was our second deck we built in Durban using CCA pine as a substructure. I can confirm that there is a substantial cost saving using pine as a substructure and provided it is CCA treated to the correct Hazard Level (H level), then it is guaranteed by the supplier and manufacturer against rot and…