Timber Decking Camden

Why Camden Owners Call Us for Decking

What makes decking in Camden different is the combination of rich alluvial river-flat soil with reactive clay on the rises underneath and, on a great many blocks, the need to work around working rural land within sight of the town centre.

Half the skill in decking around Camden is knowing what not to disturb. Established gardens, old services and timber post-and-rail frontages that suit the district and look wrong in steel all sit in the way of the obvious approach.

Owners in Camden tend to call us at the point where patching has stopped working. By then the underlying issue is usually a substructure that has rotted where it sat in contact with damp ground, and a repair only postpones it.

Book a free on-site measure on 0492 879 796. You get an itemised written quote for your Camden property, not a figure over the phone.

Why Camden Owners Replace Decking

Most decking enquiries we take in Camden come from the same place: boards that have cupped and split after years without oil. It is worth understanding why that happens here before deciding what to replace it with.

• Boards that have cupped and split after years without oil
• A substructure that has rotted where it sat in contact with damp ground
• A springy feel from joists spanning further than they should
• A deck that traps moisture underneath because it was built too low without ventilation

What Happens After You Call

Access is planned before pricing. On flat river flats framed by low hills in Camden, whether a truck can get close or whether everything is barrowed is the largest single variable in the program.

Rubbish and old material leave with us. Around Camden, dealing with mature elms and established gardens with protected root zones makes storing a pile of demolition on site awkward for everyone, so removal is priced in rather than added later.

• Composite and capped composite boards
• Galvanised and hardwood substructure
• Elevated decks with balustrade
• Hidden fixing and pre-oiled finishes
• Merbau and spotted gum hardwood decks
• Pool surround decking

Site and Ground Conditions in Camden

Local housing stock is largely a heritage town centre with Victorian cottages, plus surrounding acreage, and that tells you a lot about what is already in the ground: original service runs, old footings and the occasional buried slab nobody remembered.

Tree cover and root zones matter around Camden. Roots are worked around rather than cut through, both because the tree matters and because a cut root under a footing is a future problem.

Nothing about Camden is standard once you get past the front gate. We measure the whole site rather than the section you called about, because Nepean river flats with flood planning levels that decide what can be built low has a habit of turning up mid-job otherwise.

Decking Styles Suited to Camden

What We Specify and Why

Everything we install carries a manufacturer specification, and we install to it. Warranty claims fail on installation detail far more often than on product defect.

The parts you cannot see once the job is finished are the parts worth paying for: footings, drainage, fixings and substructure. That is as true in Camden as anywhere.

• Merbau bleeds tannin for the first few rains, which is why a pre-coat before laying saves staining on light paving below.
• Any deck more than a metre above ground needs balustrade designed to the relevant height and infill rules.
• A deck is only as good as its substructure, and the substructure is what nobody sees when comparing quotes.
• A deck built low to the ground needs ventilation underneath or the substructure will hold moisture and fail early.
• Composite boards expand along their length more than timber, so end gaps are set differently.