[Misc] Decking? What is the ******* point of it?

[essbee1]

I don't understand the point of putting decking in a garden.

Am I missing something? All people are doing is creating a
small wooden platform to somehow create an illusion of minimal height
and grandeur. All that you get though is something that you trip over,
will be a fashion faux pas in a few years and to my mind something
that looks shit anyway.

 

[Springal]

Bit like those with patios, pretentious wankers

 

[A mex eyecan]

and can be a slippy as **** when it’s wet

 

[A mex eyecan]

Bit like those with patios, pretentious wankers

what about gravel

 

[Springal]

what about gravel

That’s a driveway

 

[WATFORD zero]

The bloke in B&Q asked if I wanted decking

So I thought I'd better get the first punch in

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Middle class frippery

 

[Deleted member 22389]

I don't understand the point of putting decking in a garden.

Am I missing something? All people are doing is creating a
small wooden platform to somehow create an illusion of minimal height
and grandeur. All that you get though is something that you trip over,
will be a fashion faux pas in a few years and to my mind something
that looks shit anyway.

Absolutely right. In the end it just rots and looks horrible. Our house came with decking at the back. Last year I had to replace the beams as they where rotted and the board's where coming loose. Trust me if I had the money I would rip the stuff up and have proper slabs.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Unless you spend absolutely shedloads of money on the very best quality, these things rot in a couple of years, take loads of maintenance, are dangerous when wet and impossible to stand on when icy.
Nowt quite as good as a proper patio!

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Be grateful you have a garden ffs

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[Icy Gull]

So 90s. Excellent for moss to grow on to enable you to fall arse over tit on in the winter

 

[dazzer6666]

Something for the rats to live under isn’t it ?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Be grateful you have a garden ffs

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Quit ya moaning and get ya pinny on ..ironing to do

 

[LamieRobertson]

Good for a bonfire?

 

[GT49er]

Something for the rats to live under isn’t it ?

..... is the right answer. Other vermin and insects too.

 

[Acker79]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/decking-90s-alan-titchmarsh-tony-blair

 

[pearl]

Quit ya moaning and get ya pinny on ..ironing to do

kinky

 

[Bakero]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The bloke in B&Q asked if I wanted decking

So I thought I'd better get the first punch in

Simple tap-in for the boy [MENTION=396]WATFORD zero[/MENTION]

 

[AmexRuislip]

It's great for building raised beds.