Hi,
I have never erected decking before but am told its fairly simple, Joists and Decks. Joists on the floor, Decks on top.
I have different advice about how to erect it, 1 person says Flatten ground, lay weed matting down, then concrete slabs, then joists then the deck.
Another bit of advice was to make a frame just on top of the weed matting then decks on top.
Another was to put matting down then work the joists out from the house and deck on top.
As you can imagine I am a novice and unsure of what advice to take. whether to screw the deck in or nail it? whether softwood is better than hard?
not a scooby.
I have a fair amount to deck from the house outwards in a kind of L shape up to 3 sides fence and two sides house.
Can anybody tell me what the tradesmans solution is to decking as I am fairly confused.com
Thanks
I have never erected decking before but am told its fairly simple, Joists and Decks. Joists on the floor, Decks on top.
I have different advice about how to erect it, 1 person says Flatten ground, lay weed matting down, then concrete slabs, then joists then the deck.
Another bit of advice was to make a frame just on top of the weed matting then decks on top.
Another was to put matting down then work the joists out from the house and deck on top.
As you can imagine I am a novice and unsure of what advice to take. whether to screw the deck in or nail it? whether softwood is better than hard?
not a scooby.
I have a fair amount to deck from the house outwards in a kind of L shape up to 3 sides fence and two sides house.
Can anybody tell me what the tradesmans solution is to decking as I am fairly confused.com
Thanks