When you make furniture in wood, making a hardwood deck can't be too hard. Right?
As one does, I drew everything in SketchUp first. We opted for 145 mm wide Bangkirai boards, flat side up. The deck wraps around the end of our swimming pond.
The design for the hardwood deck.
We dug out the area, installed a landscape fabric and started building the frame.
We put in a landscape fabric as weed barrier.
We started off with small heaps of screed on which we placed two pavers. On top of that came the pvc deck supports and the hardwood beams.
We made sure everything was level.
And then we fastened the boards with deck screws in pre-drilled holes.
We used 5 mm spacers to ensure even spacing between the boards.
And before you knew it, we had all the boards in place and just had to do some edge trimming.
Of course it started raining when we finished the deck.
