Replacing a Rotten Deck Frame With Steel: A St Ives Retrofit That Saved the Boards
A ten year old, premium 60 square metre Spotted Gum deck in St Ives still looked fantastic from the top. The homeowner’s actual complaint was simpler and more worrying: the boards had started feeling soft and bouncy underfoot in a couple of spots. What ten years had actually done underneath The original builder had put […]
Painting Treated Pine Doesn’t Make It BAL-40 Compliant
A hillside property in Belrose, backing straight onto Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park bushland, came back from the BAL assessment at BAL-40, with BAL-FZ level detailing required right along the boundary edge closest to the bush. Before Serg was engaged to actually build it, the homeowner had already been talked into a shortcut by a landscape […]
Steel Decking Near the Ocean: Why Standard Galvanising Isn’t Enough at Freshwater
Freshwater sits close enough to the ocean spray zone that the air itself is part of the engineering brief. Less than 300 metres from the water, salt doesn’t just sit on the surface of things, it gets into every unwashed corner underneath a deck and goes to work on whatever metal it finds. Standard galvanised […]
Putting a Deck on Top of a Carport: Why the Frame Underneath Almost Went Wrong
A steep corner block in Elanora Heights, a big drop from street level down to the front door, and a client who wanted two things that usually fight each other: a secure double carport at street height, and an elevated entertainment deck sitting right on top of it, opening off the upper living room. That’s […]
