Decks, built by
the builder who quoted them.

Plenty of deck builders Perth-wide are booking someone else’s carpenter and adding a margin. Carpentry is the trade GPD self-performs. Hardwood, composite and modified timber, with the substructure sized properly underneath and the licence in the builder’s own name.

Scope

Carpentry, fit-out and minor works are self-performed rather than sub-let, so timber is core business rather than something bought in. The honest question on material is not which is best, it is how much maintenance you will realistically do once the novelty wears off.

The natural look most people picture, and it ages into something better rather than worse. Wants oiling once a year to hold its colour.

Board layout set out before fixing · Hidden or plug-fixed to your preference · Oiled at handover, ready to use

No oiling, wash it and leave it. Worth knowing it warms up underfoot through a WA summer, which matters on a west-facing deck with no shade over it.

Concealed clip fixing systems · Expansion gaps set for WA heat · Colour and profile chosen at brief

Accoya and equivalents. Long service life and dimensionally stable, meaning less cupping and movement over the years. Premium price for it.

Stable underfoot in wide boards · Suits exposed and coastal blocks · Priced as a lump sum, not a guess

Deck with an open-roof or louvre-roof structure over it, in timber, steel or aluminium. Adding a roof changes the wind engineering and the approval path.

Framed now for a roof added later · Engineered to the block’s wind rating · Tied into paving, lawn or existing slab

The part that decides whether the deck is still sound in fifteen years, and the part that disappears first from a quote that needs to look cheaper.

Spans worked back from the actual load · Treated to H3 minimum, stainless fixings · Stirrup posts into footings dug to depth

The approval lead time decides that, not the build. A site visit costs you an hour and commits you to nothing. We look, then come back in writing with what we would change and what it would run.

Under the boards

Not from the top down. They fail where nobody looks, and by the time the symptom reaches the surface the repair costs more than the original build. This is also the only reliable way to separate deck builders Perth-wide when two prices look the same. Four things decide it, and all four are settled before a single board is laid.

Members sized to the load
Bearer and joist spans worked back from what the deck will actually carry, to AS 1684. Not copied from whatever was there before.

Treatment to H3 minimum
Everything exposed or near ground contact treated to the right hazard class. Untreated substructure is a five-year decision dressed up as a saving.

Footings dug to depth
Stirrup posts set into concrete footings at the depth the soil type requires, not surface-fixed. Cut this and the post lifts within a few WA summers.

Fixings that survive the coast
Stainless or galvanised throughout. Coastal Perth eats plain steel, and fixings are a fraction of the cost while being first to let go.

Recent work · Decks & patios

Three builds off the project register with real values and real suburbs. Fixed-price contracts against a signed scope, not a rate per square metre applied to a photo. References available on request.

$7,500 · Hardwood deck delivered to a residential home in Bayswater. The lower end of what a properly built deck costs.

$12,000 · Hardwood deck integrated with the existing dwelling. Tying into an existing structure is what moves a deck up a band.

$27,000 · Roofed outdoor patio engineered for coastal wind exposure. Adding a roof changes the engineering and the approval path.

Brief us

Comparing deck builders in Perth? No gatekeepers, no call centre. The builder reads every brief himself and replies within one business day, including the honest version where the budget and the block do not agree.

Mon–Sat · 7am–6pm AWST

Same number · escalation queue

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Common questions