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The board is the first real decision, and out here the winter decides it more than the look does. Warragul sits in cool-temperate West Gippsland, wetter than metro Melbourne and damp for long stretches through the colder months, so timber moves and coatings wear faster than they would on a dry metro block.
Merbau and Spotted Gum are the usual hardwoods: dense, good colour under oil, happy with traffic. Treated pine costs less and more often ends up as the frame than the finished surface. Left uncoated, all three weather to grey.
Composite, Ekodeck, Modwood and WoodEvo among them, takes the oiling off your list entirely. No rot, no splinters, colour without a coating. What it does not change is the sub-floor of timber or steel underneath, which decides how long the deck lasts. Nor does it stop a shaded board staying damp, and anything damp through a Gippsland winter grows a film.
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Only Kane Dalman from Big Fella Landscapes was able to confidently answer all our questions. At every step of the way we were consulted by Kane Dalman ensuring no surprises. Three years later we still receive the WOW comments when guests experience our back yard. We even contracted Big Fella to come back and landscape our front yard and gave them free reign as we were so confident in their style and professionalism.
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Not only have the team at Big Fella Landscapes exceeded my high requirements, but we valued the property before and after their work and are thrilled to not only have an amazing cutting edge landscape, but coupled this with a return on our investment in excess of 30% !! I look forward to using them again on my next project.
Mark & Aurelija
I wish to thank you for the wonderful landscaping job done by Big Fella Landscapes. Your company was a true pleasure to work with. Everyone in your team was professional and courteous, on the job each day and competently led by yourself. As an owner builder, I had to personally deal with many contractors during the construction of my new house and I can truly say that out of all the contractors I have used Big Fella was the best one.
Elie
Area is the figure people arrive with, and it is rarely the one that decides the price. The same forty square metres laid at ground level and lifted a metre up a falling block are two different builds, the second carrying footings, posts, engineering and steps.
It is how you check a corner is square without a builder’s square big enough to reach. Measure three units along one edge and four along the other, and if the corner is true the diagonal between those marks comes in at five. Any consistent unit works, millimetres or metres.
Twenty by twenty is an imperial footprint, and decks here are quoted in square metres, so converting it comes first. Once converted, the same drivers apply: height off the ground and the sub-structure under it move the price further than the footprint does.
On flat ground a concrete or paved surface is usually cheaper, because there is no sub-floor to build. On a falling block it often flips: concrete needs fill, retaining or a suspended slab to reach a level finish, while a deck can be framed out over the drop. We hold both trades, and the slab side of it is the work we do as a concreter in Warragul, so the answer is about your ground.
