Decking on a Sloped Block: Why Steel Subframes Beat Timber
Most decking advice on sloped blocks focuses on the wrong problem. It talks about design, cantilevers, split levels, without ever addressing why the subframe underneath so often fails first on a real Sydney hill. We’ve built enough of these to know the slope itself is what breaks a timber frame, and it’s also exactly why […]
Steel Deck Framing: DIY Kit vs a Custom Professional Build
Search “steel deck framing” and you’ll mostly land on kit sellers: Bunnings’ own Steel-Deck range, SmartKits, a few others selling light gauge modular systems you bolt together yourself. Fair enough, they’ve got a real market. But after years of pulling apart decks that started life as a DIY kit, it’s worth saying plainly: a kit […]
