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Building an attractive timber decking garden feature by David Tattersall
Timber decking can quickly add character to a garden. It is one of the most popular and rewarding ways of changing a bland and uninspiring garden layout into a focal point for pure enjoyment. You can easily build a perfect sun-trap where, after a busy session working to enhance your garden's colourful beauty, you can retreat and relax with a refreshing iced drink.
Timber decking is not one of those DIY tasks that appears either intimidating or beyond anyone's limited building skills: however, it does need careful planning and a thought process involving everyone in the household. Otherwise, it might cause disagreement and become a thorn in your side, forever.
Planning
Timber decking can be assembled and located in the sun or shade at ground level, elevated, or even built over a water feature or slope. People might enjoy split-level decking designs with one or more steps featured in its layout.
Modules of varying shapes can be built separately, and easily bolted together to create a wonderful, inviting, peaceful retreat, with garden furniture and plants added afterwards to form an attractive, decorative focal point in the garden. Designs in squares, or rectangular, hexagonal, or overlapping formats with triangular sections possibly bolted alongside are entirely dependent on the gardener's own imagination and the residents' unanimous agreement. Pergolas for climbing plants and hanging baskets can be built into the design, plus balustrades on an elevated platform.
Variety is the order of the day and it's what inspires everyone's creative penchant which ensures a decking feature becomes characteristically inviting. Timber decking can even be combined with other hard surfaces like gravel or stone pavements to deliver uniqueness in a garden design.
The best advice we can offer any DIY and gardening enthusiast is: 'KEEP it SIMPLE.'
Stick firmly to the following basic principles if you want your timber decking feature to be a resounding success.
Site Preparation
1. Inspect the garden at regular intervals and make a note of the sun's movements across it. Your choices and options become increasingly apparent as the planning and daytime research will highlight the garden's best sun-traps and shaded areas.
2. Decide whether the decking is to be built in a hotspot, or in the shade.
3. Begin your decking plans by measuring and staking the chosen ground area, and drawing your first design thoughts on paper.
4. Do you want complete privacy in a sheltered area of the garden, or do you want it to be out in the open where everyone can relax in the sun? Remember, erecting any timber decking in a permanently shaded area can see it being affected by damp and algae growth.
5. Don't make the design too big for your garden: I've seen enthusiasts create 'A ROAD to WIGAN PIER' across the landscape and wonder why it turned into an unsightly feature?
6. Take my advice: any aspirations towards a new career in civil engineering construction and thoughts of erecting a 'stairway to heaven' will result in problems and criticisms you won't enjoy.
7. Take advice from professional builders' and timber merchants about the deck bearer timbers (80mm x 80mm size) and ensure they are stress graded joists, if the decking is to be elevated. Inspect all the decking timbers (140mm wide) available and decide upon their overall length and surface finish.eg 2400mm lengths x 140 mm wide with a 5mm gap between each board.
8. Having listened to the views of everyone in the home, peg out your final decking design plan in the garden exactly where it is to be built: then get their overall agreement that the site is perfect.
Ground Level Surface Preparation
If you intend laying the decking over a grassy or weeded area remove all surface turf and lay retardant growth fabric over it to prevent re-growth under the decking. Areas that are naturally moist or soggy and retain water should be additionally covered with pea shingle up to 25mm in depth