The goal was to expand the upper area to provide a more functional outdoor seating area for this foodie family. It quickly grew arms and legs with a vastly superior staircase, glass and stainless steel ballustrade, refinishing their exterior Larch cladding, doors, and windows, installing Jacksons Fencing in the front garden fencing, and that’s just from us. Another great group of landscapers redid the rest of the lower garden with a new path, rotivating and returfing, a new shed, and more.

Decking Frame & Bearers

We extended the existing decking outwards into the garden. This Yellow Balau Hardwood Decking Installation required adding new joists, bearers, and a new run of posts to support the leading edge. For this job we used 6 Millboard Composite Posts and Jacksons Fencing Decking Joists and Bearers.

Hardwood Decking and Staircase Installation

We used smooth Yellow Balau Hardwood Decking to match the existing decking. In a short amount of time the colours of the old and the new will match perfectly. We created a herringbone pattern where the old and the new decking boards met to make the transition a feature versus trying to hide the joint.

The Staircase was custom built with three bespoke stringers made on site. The previous staircase was running parallel to the rear of the house, we extended it directly out into the side of the garden.

Glass Ballustrade Installation with Stainless Steel Posts and Handrail

The Glass Ballustrade and Stainless Steel posts and Handrail are from Q-Railing, supplied by oue good friends at Arbordeck. The Glass Ballustrade is the main feature of this deck project now as it provides a continuous view from the Kitchen and Dining Area out to the rear of this garden. It no longer feels like several separate areas, which was always the goal. More information on Arbordeck Railings is available here https://www.arbordeck.co.uk/railing/

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The clients decided on a double picture frame layout with one wide step across the entire width.

The frame was build with Use Class 4 treated softwood timber, with Walther Strong Decking Tape to protext the top of the timber. The decking tape resolves a typical weakpoint on softwood decking frames. Water drips down from the decking and sits in the shade, on the joists between the decking boards. This moisture build up in a shaded area leads to moss and algea growth and is the first point of deterioration on a deck frame. So we taped it, so the water sits on the decking tape, then evaporates naturally without sitting on the timber at all. The tape is designed to seal around the screws to prevent moisture getting in through those holes.

The bearers under the timber frame was a combination of aluminium and composite bearers and posts. There is no wood in contact with the ground as this is another weak point in the majority of decking installations. The wood in contact with the ground gets dirty and wet. This leads to wood rot which travels upo the supports to the decking itself.. Without any wood in contact with the ground this does not occur.

For screws we used Stainless Steel decking screws, all with a corresponding pilot hole drilled to avoid the wood splitting or cracking.

Quality Garden Decking lasts longer and looks superior

Whereas budget garden decking lasts a very short amount of time and looks inferior. Unlodess you have firm plans to replace the decking area in the next 10 years, choose your materials carefully and remember replacing the decking twice over 20 years means paying for waste removal twice and installation twice as well as the material cost.

In the end, this decking frame will last 25 Years without maintenance. The Yellow Balau Decking Boards will last in excess of 40 years provided they are oiled to prevent the wood cracking. Yellow Balau is naturally resistant to wood rot and wood boring insects, as are most hardwoods, so that will not be an issue.

The investment in quality materials and planning is a larger upfront cost, however almost any softwood decking would need to be replaced 2-3 times to last as long, and no softwood decking will ever look as good as this does.

Yellow Balau Decking from Champion Timber

Decking Frame Composite and Aluminium Bearers from Millboard

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