cookstar

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We are currently doing our garden, and I have had it in my head for some time now that I will be having a decked area out the back, last week though the wife decided out of the blue that she doesn't like it and has demanded a patio.

She and a few other I have spoken to seem to reckon that decking has had it's day.

What are your thoughts on this, I need to make my mind up in the next week or so, as I need to have the whole lot finished in 6 weeks.

Clarebabes

I like decking, but a patio will probably last longer and need less attention. Use some nice cotswold stone slabs of different sizes etc. My brother and sister in law have done theirs and it looks fab.

Camoscooby

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+1

My mate has just made a patio and used some expensive yellowish stone, sounds dodgy I know but looks the b*llocks

Clarebabes

cookstar

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^^^ That I like, the pool would be nice to.

We only have an area of 21 square meters though, and I thought it may look a little silly if it was too fussy. I may just go for square slabs.

Midlife......

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I decked out an area when I lived in Manchester.......slippery when wet and a real pain to clean

I was looking at some of the circular patio kits you can get for my present garden.

Shaun

David Lock

Decking was always and will always be Chavsville IMHO

Also as slippery as hell after a while. Kids, grannies and adults with three glasses of claret inside them will keel over like nine pins

Go for a traditional slab patio, decent lawn and an Iroko or Teak outside table. If there is room puts some posts up and grow a vine or something over the patio area.

dl

Leslie

Don't you have to keep painting it with preservative as well? Sounds like a nuisance to me.

Les

Midlife......

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Les, the only thing I found to keep the crud of my decking was Jeyes Fluid........smelt like an Elsan Loo ...... but then again, didn't the old "Iron Triangle" have a chemical toilet !!

Paving the way to go

Shaun

Leslie

I am afraid it didn't. Each crew member had a rubber container with a chromed funnel and a closeable lid. You were responsible to empty your own after each flight.

Deeper needs were not catered for so you had to learn to hold it!

One bloke was known to use the box for the crew rations once which was pretty anti social and he got a name throughout the force which he was never allowed to forget!

Les

cookstar

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Just ordered a bunch of this.

http://www.pavingsuperstore.co.uk/st...moor-249-p.asp


I think I'll have someone in to lay it though.

skoobidude

As decking is raised I don't like the void left beneath and the potential shelter it gives for rodents.