When I first went to this Nine Elms project I actually wasn’t sure if Oilcanfinish should bid for it. It was a wonderful area, and the clients gave us a realistic budget to work with, however the obstacles were significant.In total it was 60 Square Meters of decking to be replaced. The project comprised 3 balconies (2 balconies, 1 terrace actually). The flat was on the 9th floor. The parking garage has a 2mt clearance, meaning all materials would be delivered, and all waste had to be moved, not only down 9 stories but also across the rather large underground parking lot and outside the building.

The main two concerns were fire rating and project logistics of materials handling.

A1 Fire Rated Decking

In the post-Grenfell Tower era, Fire Ratings matter. They always should have, but most people ignored them primarily in an effort to reduce costs.Currently, if your project is over a certain height from the ground, it must have an A1 Fire Rating for both the decking, the framing, and the pedastals or supports. The only materials which achieve this rating are Steel, Stone, and Fibre Cement. No timber or composite decking or cladding has an A1 Fire Rating.

The client still wanted a Deck-like appearance, so Porcelain Planks is what we proposed with an Alumimium Subframe. Aluminium decking boards was also a compliant option, however we did not see anything visually appealing, and for this type of property, appearance matters.

Materials Handling and Deliveries/Removals

This was a question of labour. Scaffolding was not an option, and it is too high for cranes, so it meant manually shifting 360 porcelain planks at 15kg each up to the 9th floor in small batches. Same with the much lighter Aluminium Framing all of which was too long to fit into the elevator so each joist had to be cut to fit the elevator, then reconnected into its former length once upstairs. Also, all of the old decking waste had to be bagged and taken down the same way.

Porcelain Decking

We have been watching the market for A1 Fire Rated decking products from different manufacturers of Steel decking but have never found one which looks like it would fit into the properties of our clientele. The appearance of steel decking is industrial, walking on the boards is noisy, and it gets very hot underfoot.

Clients in upper floor flats in Nine Elms, Chelsea, and Battersea and the surrounding areas prefer something a bit more refined and have a certain style expectation, specifically that their interior flooring style is extended outside to their terrace or balcony.

Porcelain is a different story than steel decking as the appearance is consistent with what they already have in their kitchens and bathrooms, but a porcelain decking board, or plank, with a woodgrain finish is the best of both worlds.

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Millboard Enhanced Grain Decking

The clients selected Millboard Enhanced Grain Antique Oak decking.

The edging detail by the end of the deck and step was done with Millboard Bullnose boards to provide the professional finish.

Millboard Feature Wall

Once completed, rather than replace the Trellis beside the doors, the clients agreed to a Millboard Feature Wall. This was a combination of Millboard Envello Cladding, Bullnose Board for the top, and Fascia Board for the side to hide the framing.

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The specific colour chosen was Millboard Enhanced Grain Burnt Cedar. This colour replicates the finish of Shou Sugi Ban, or charred Cypress. Shou Sugi Ban is a Japanese style of wood treatment which leaves the timber blackened and creates a stylish finish when combined with other contemporary design elements such as dark door and window frames, vertical cladding, slatted fencing, and the feature Skylight with black border. All of these modern design elements and colours existed in this garden already, most specifically the black border in the Skylight. Had another colour been chosen, that black Skylight border would have stood out. far more prominently.

This Millboard colour was to be combined with a rot resistant substructure to ensure the frame lasts as long as the decking. The previous composite decking which had been installed by the original builders was a timber structure on pedastals. The timber frame had failed due to wood rot and incorrect joist spacing. The incorrect joist spacing caused the boards to curl upwards where the butt joints met. Although there was nothing wrong with the decking boards chosen, due to incoŕrect framing, the boards warped over time making them unfit for purpose.

Millboard PlasPro Composite Joist Frame

The client wanted to avoid the issue of wood rot occuring, so they selected Millboard PlasPro Joists for the framing. These joists are completely rot resistant, specifically they do not deteriorate in any way when wet and insects do not eat this material. Regardless of how humid the area is underneath your decking, these joists will continue performing. This is why Oilcanfinish recommend Composite Joists and support posts for low level decks with little to no air circulation.

The composite frames were both lifted off the ground and levelled using Plastic Risers resting on the original concrete subbase. Plastic Risers are also completely rot resistant making the ideal solution for decking onto concrete surface.

Millboard Enhanced Grain Decking

The clients selected Millboard Enhanced Grain composite decking. These decking boards are modelled after Oak Planks, with visible grain designs on the top face of the board, making them extremely attractive.

Millboard products combined the resilience of wood-free materials with a classic texture, and finished with design-oriented colours. This decking is a wood free decking board so is also imperveous to rot and insect attack. Millboard decking is installed with rust free Stainless Steel screws.

Oilcanfinish Outdoor Living are Millboard Approved Installers. We have extensive experience working with Millboard Decking and Cladding, we have undertaken Millboard training, and we have a strong list of previous clients who have used our service to install their Millboard designs.

You will find numerous composite decking projects we have completed in Wandsworth SW17 within our portfolio.

Visit Millboards Website for more ideas on their Composite Decking and Cladding products.

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The client wanted decking which was smooth without any sharp edges. They both are very busy so the idea of spending significant amounts of time cleaning and maintaining the deck was not an option. Also, one of the considerations was the time and disruption a new deck installation entails, specifically as with Balconies everything has to go through the flat

We put down our flooring protection, cut up the old deck, bagged it, and carries it out. The bagging is essential to avoid leaving a trail of dust, dirt, and wood shavings behind.

The new deck frame was measured out, and we cut the timbers prior to bringing through the property. This means a more rapid install but equally important, a quieter one to avoid disruption to the neighbors. We co-ordinated our materials delivery with the property concierge to ensure we stayed well out of the way of the other tenants.

We installed Trex Transcend Lineage decking in their Biscayne colour. This decking is a wood and plastic composite and comes with a 50 year guarantee. It is splinter free, very easy to clean, and features a cooler to the touch capping on the board, making it more friendly for bare feet.

The design was a picture frame with breaker boards separating the sections for a clean, contemporary finish. The colours of these boards shifts and changes slightly as the sun hits them, giving them a very natural appearance, natural with all the benefits of composite.

It was difficult to leave this job, the views across South-West London are superb with the Glass Ballustrades.

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The back of this garden was largely unusable. Healthy lawn struggled to grow due to a lack of daylight, the side fencing had collapsed. The clients decided to turn the rear of their property into a highlight of their garden with a beautiful multi-use garden work out room with heating and air-conditioning, wrapped with beautiful composite decking, with a multi-use exercise ladder frame projecting through the decking, and new premium fencing to complete the transformation.

Fencing

Jacksons Fencing Tongue & Groove. Our most popular Fencing products.

For the fencing the clients selected Jacksons Fencing Tongue & Groove Panels with Jacksons Planed Smooth Posts and Capping Rails. While these can be stained in any colour you would like (once the Preservative has fully dried) they will naturally silver from exposure to UV light. No staining, painting, or treatment of any kind is required for Jacksons Fencing Jakcure 25 Year Service Life Guarantee. Learn more about Jacksons Fencing Jakcure Guarantee by clicking here: Jacksons Fencing 25 Year Guarantee

Decking

Trex Transcend Tropicals Island Mist.

For the Decking, the clients selected Trex Transcend composite decking in Island Mist. This decking is one of our favourites due to its colour tones and for it’s durability. All of our clients love it as it is so straightforward to clean. A Mop and soapy water, a quick rinse afterwards with the garden hose and it’s ready for company. Learn more about Trex Transcend Decking by clicking here: Trex Transcend Decking

This decking comes in Grooved Edge boards, Square edge boards, with matching Fascia Boards for the front of the deck. One of the key advantages of Trex Transcend Decking is that it is a 24mm thick solid decking board which also has a compatible Screw and Plug system as well as the Trex Hidden Clip system. The Screw and Plugs mean you can secure the boards to your decking frame, covering the screw holes with the plugs which blend perfectly with the rest of the deck. No visible fixings with the strength of face fixed decking screws.

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Rot Free Decking Subframe Supports Installation

This project had a combination of soil and also a large concrete pad underneath the old decking. As we always work to have no timber in contyact with the ground we used our two most popular rot free post options. For the decking over the concrete pad we used 100mm x 100mm Plastic Composite Posts, notched for the joists to sit on, which are 100% rot free. For the decking over the soil we used Supreme Concrete Dekposts which are made with notches for the joists to sit on. Supreme Concrete Dekposts are factory made of preformed concrete with 2 bolt holes and are 100% rot free.

Timber Decking Frame Installation

For our higher level of decking we used Use Class 4 Treated Timber Joists which are 50mm x 150mm dimension. For our lower level decking we used Use Class 4 Treated Timber which is 50mm x 100mm dimension. All of these timbers are treated to a much higher level than standard Treated Timber to ensure they last longer against insect attack wood rot.

We tape the top of the joists with Trex Protect Joist Tape. This tape protects the joists:

1. Trex Protect Joist Tape protects the timber decking joists and frame from water which pools on top of the flat surface of the decking joists between the decking boards. This prevents it from soaking into the wood as it stays on top of the tape until it evaporates naturally.
2. Trex Protect Joist Tape forms a watertight seal around the decking screws to prevent water from travelling down the screw thread into the middle of the decking joists and getting into the middle of the timber decking joists.

Trex Composite Decking Installation

For this project the clients selected Trex Enhance Naturals in Toasted Sand (light brown) for their main decking areas. The picture frame border around the deck is Trex Transcend Spiced Rum.

1. Trex Enhanced Naturals decking is installed using Trex Hidden Fixings and Trex Starter Clips with no visible screws.
2. Trex Transcend decking is installed using Starborn ProPlug screws which are hidden with a cortex plugs.

This combination, using Trex Transcend as the picture frame border, combined with any Trex products for the main body of the decking, means no screws are visible on the deck. We always recommend clients use Trex Transcend for the Picture Frames on their Trex Deck project for this specific reason.

The darker colour of the Spiced Rum also highlights all of the elevation changes, from the turf to the lower level deck, and from the lower level deck to the upper level deck. By the rear doors we matched the height of the door drip tray for a seamless transition between indoors and outdoors.

We also had an unusual ledge alongside the garage to contend with which was at varying heights and included some unattractive visible pipework to the garage. We boxed this in using Trex Transcend decking and made a shelf alongside the garage.

Rear Garden Jacksons Fencing

After discussing the decking, the clients also decided they would use Oilcanfinish Outdoor Living to install their fencing in the rear garden. Their neighbors were in the midst of a House Extension so part of the old fencing had already been removed.

The clients selected Tongue & Groove effect fencing from Jacksons Fencing. This is by far our most popular fencing over the years due to its contemporary appearance combined with the classic style of tongue and groove. As always we used Jacksons Fence Posts and Gravel Boards. Jacksons Fencing Capping Rails, which run along the top of the fence provide the polished finishing touch.

One of the bid advantages of replacing your fencing prior to completing your decking or paving project is that you can then build your new deck or paving right up to your new fence safe in the knowledge you have a 25 year guarantee from Jacksons Fencing.

Front Garden Picket Fencing

One additional section which needed attention was in the front garden between the house and the curb. The old fencing was long gone so a new Jacksons Pallisade Fencing was installed. There was some scaffolding blocking the fence route so this section will be completed once the scaffolding at the neighbors comes down.

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The clients knew exactly what they wanted, Venetian Hit and Miss from Jacksons Fencing. This included a rear gate to access the rear passage. We used Jacksons standard Slotted Posts, Gravel Boards, and Capping Rails for the superb finished topline.

Explore the range of Jacksons Fencing at https://www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk/

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The wider plank size offered by Millboard gives the boards a more plank-like appearance. Millboard can be installed with smaller gaps required between decking boards. The finish of Millboard decking is an authentic, non-reflective matt finish which gives a stronger wood appearance.

Millboard Decking is not a wood-plastic, or WPC, decking board. It has different properties which make it more likely to keep its positioning and shape with less contraction and expansion than WPC decking. This gives the installers confidence in strong mitre joints in the corners which won’t contract over time.

The Pergola decking and frame was to be inset, with the decking level with the ground. This creates a frame environment which has high humidity and low air circulation. The best solution for this environment is a non-wood frame for complete rot resistance. The clients selected Millboard Plaspro Composite Decking Joists and Posts.

The final touch was the installation of a Louvered Aluminium Pergola to give the area some shade as needed throughout the day, with the option of making it waterproof.

In the end we have a very straightforward 3mt x 3mt beautiful decking area which requires almost no maintenance beyond sweeping up.

The second section of decking, set with a new hardwood bench, was slightly smaller and creates another Feature Sitting Area of the garden in a 3mt x 2.5mt space.

Oilcanfinish Outdoor Living are Millboard Approved Installers. We install Millboard Decking, Cladding, PlasPro Composite Decking Frames, and Duospan Aluminium Decking Frames.

Explore the Millboard Range here at https://millboard.co.uk/

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