Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 May 10, 2009 12:20 pm Ah, the choices. So many choices. I need about 75m2 of hardwood decking for my place in northern Sydney. Parts of the deck will be undercover, but most of it will be exposed. Price and durability are the priorities. Currently we're looking at Spotted Gum (from BBS), Blue Gum (from Northern Rivers Timber) or Stringy Bark or Forest Reds (from Barrenjoey Timber). They're all roughly the same price (~$50 m2). Any advice, or other useful sources of information? Thanks in advance for any help. Re: Which Decking Timber 2May 10, 2009 4:54 pm Find out what lengths they come in, because it can vary a lot. Some suppliers will provide specified lengths, or close to it, others won't. If oyu don't want a) joins everywhere or b) a lot fo wastage, that can be important. Go have a look at the actual timber and see what the quality is like. Warped, split and bowed lengths can be hard to work around. We used spotted gum because it was cheapest and available, but we had to hand-pick all our lenghts to avoid the badly bowed ones. Re: Which Decking Timber 3May 10, 2009 7:28 pm I would stick away from blue gum, its a durability 3. If durability is an issue look at ironbark, merbau, tallowood or grey box etc (all durability 1). Stringybark and spotted gum are durability 2 so will be fine too. Re: Which Decking Timber 4May 16, 2009 11:46 am Merbau and Ironbark would be 2 of the strongest varieties, spotted gum is still very strong but a class below You can get finger jointed merbau in long lengths that is kiln dried that is cheaper than random length merbau. The only downside is that sometimes there are a dark and lighter piece joined so you see the variation. Very strong though Re: Which Decking Timber 7Sep 09, 2012 2:16 am We did our decking in forest reds and got them from Bunnings, from memory it's was very reasonably priced. Hi, as per the subject. Does anyone have any recommendations for the best value decking oil (Bunning is close to where I live) for a treated pine deck? Thanks 0 10970 Thank you. Do I use timber floorboards for stairs or do people use timber treads? Or is both the same? 6 7258 Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 15887 |