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Is decking just a fad?
ey143
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Is this going to fall out of fashion, anyone thinks?
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I hope so, I hate the stuff
but after 25 years (that I know of) it just seems to keep on going0 -
Maybe it will go out of fashion, but it is relatively cheap and useful.
We have patio, grass and decking in our garden - the deck is most useful throughout the winter for my toddler to ride his trike, run around and his little slide is on it.
Grass would be too messy, patio possibly too hard/dangerous.0 -
who cares? it serves a purpose and can look good0
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A near new neighbour has just ripped out the lot, said it was too slippery.0
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The price of wood is on the up. It was relatively cheap when the fashion started, so decking was sold at a good mark-up, and was still relatively cheap. There's less profit in it now, so it may get hyped less by the manufacturers, and prices are higher.
Personally, I don't like it, but I can see a use for it in some gardens. I do feel it is vastly over-used in general.0 -
Slippery when wet. And the ground underneath gets waterlogged and nasty.
We have one at the moment, and it's nice enough to sit out on when the grass is wet, but I'd rather have a paved patio.No longer a spouse, or trailing, but MSE won't allow me to change my username...0 -
I always thought that decking was loved by rats who lived underneath it. I would have a paved patio by choice but the new composite decking looks nice.
http://vannplastic.co.uk/ecodek/"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
We're having a wide 15m patio to our extension built in the garden, 3-4m deep. Wife detests the idea of decking. I bough IPE decking looks good and posh but she wants porcelain tiles. Might now go for the latter but maybe put decking in a small corner of our large garden for effect.Be ALERT - The world needs more LERTS0
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Re rats - yes that is a concern for me too. We have lots of fox issues in Herts and I want to avoid that. Remember seeing a house for sale where we were told to mind the hedge hogs / badgers nesting under the decking - they were protected species!Be ALERT - The world needs more LERTS0
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If I had the money, I would like something like this.
Or this
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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