Hot Weather

 With the weather hotting up timber will shrink, beprepared for this whenlaying your deck in what ever timber you are using. 

cost of living

 Its all getting too much these days,put the news on and all we hear is wars, energy bills going up, the hot weather, hose pipe bans to name but a few, its enough to drive anyone up the wall.  

You might be forgiven if you are neglating the garden, but this space is a sanctury for all of us, somewhere we can all sit for a while in peace and quiet, if you are luck enough to have an outside space make the most of it, and if you canb afford it build a timber deck, it does not have to be anything major, a deck is a wooden platform, so you can use almost any type of wooden planks to build it, so long as it serves the purpose of allowing us all to sit down and just relax. 

If the expense of deck boards is too much, use timber gravel boards instead,it may not be as smooth but with a lick of paint and the wearing of outside footwear then do it that way. 

I have seen even pallets being used to create this type of structure with fantastic results, pallets can sometimes be purchased for very small amount of money, sometimes free.

Go for it!!