Decki

(Topic should have been ' Decking as a fence' - anyway to change the topic once you've posted?)

The floor level at the back of my house is about 1 metre off the ground and there is currently nothing covering the open space
I was thinking of putting decking boards horizontally around the exposed areas. As the space under the back room is useful for storage, there's a concrete slab there, I need to be able to remove sections of the decking. I was thinking of just being able to lift out the necessary section for access as there is no room to swing out a section on hinges.

The biggest section I'll want to remove is about 2.4 metres in length. How heavy would a 1 metre by 2.4 metre section be - assuming I use 90x22 treated pine decking? Supporting frame will be minimal.

Still not sure what fittings I'll use to allow these sections to be lifted off.

Rear view (with steps) will be enclosed with only the section where the wheelbarrow is to be removable.
Side view (with lattice) I want to be completely removable.

(and yes, I am going to paint the house :B )

Other ideas welcomed.

A 1 metre by 2.4 metre section will be unmanageable.
Could you put a lift out door in one of the sides?

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Originally Posted by echnidna

A 1 metre by 2.4 metre section will be unmanageable.
Could you put a lift out door in one of the sides?

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A door would work, I thought of being able to remove the entire section as it make access under the house easier. There's no reason that the 2.4 section has to be in one piece, I could put a support of some sort in the middle. Would a 1 x 1.2 metre section be manageable? (I couldn't find any tables that tell me how much this amount of timber will weigh).
The other reason for having a single panel was aesthetics, a single unbroken panel looks neater than 2 or 3.

Radiata is about 600kg/m³ dried. At a nominal 23mm spacing, a panel 1000×2400×19 is about 22kg plus nails/screws, plus framing. However, it's likely to warp and carry on due to being less rigidly attached than most similar panelling.

For ease of handling, maybe make it in two full-width panels, one above the other, and accept it will wriggle about some as it ages?

Is there any reason you couldn't add a few battens and screw the timber on? Then , when you need to access a section, grab the drill, rip out a few screws and your set.

Trav