Thanks SimondsCleo, yeah was glad the decking is in, its treated pine and will do nicely until we work our way through the other fifty jobs and replace with some nice merbau decking.
Speaking of jobs to do...My folks were down for the weekend and while we were walking around the yard discussing ideas for decking/garden etc we notice our fence line garage and the neighbours back fence were seriously out of line. We went home and grad a tape measure, measured the neighbours fence and its encroaching our land by 15cm! Was sure our garage brick wall wouldn't have been misplaced, but bloody hell now have to ask new neighbour to move the fence. They built it before we bought the block and before anyone started.
grrrrr!