Screw Nails for Treated Pine deck

[pfuller]

I've got my Treated Pine sub-frame together for my deck, and now need to buy some budget fasteners for 19mm/90mm Treated Pine decking.

After a bit of searching the archives, i've decided to go for 65mm Screw Nails on a coil, pulling them off and hand nailing them after drilling the decking timber.

Can anyone recommend a cheap distributor/website i can buy a coil of these from? How many nails are their on a coil and any estimates on how many i will need for a 30 square metre deck? (13 joists, 4 bearers - 5 metres wide). I'm thinking 1000 nails will well and truly cover it. Sound about right?

Would screws be a better option? And how much more expensive will it be to use screws?

Thanks in Advance.

(New to all this chippy stuff - pete)

[addo]

What width are your decking boards?

If width is 5m, then number of boards is 5000/90 or 56 (rounded up).

Run of the deck is 30/5, or 6m. I'd allow one join per run.

So you have 56 boards times 14 joist crossings times two nails, if the butt joins are factored in. That's 1568 nails, but allow 5% wastage and you get about 1650.

Cheers, Adam.

p.s. Now you can also time the nailing off - after measuring how long to do the first couple of runs, extrapolate to the remainder of the deck.

[sol381]

Why buy a coil. You can buy the exact same nail loose in various size packs.. Ripping them off the coil is a pain in the butt. Also make sure you get ring shank nails. Twist shank are for hardwood joists.

[pfuller]

Thanks guys. I musta forgot to times my calculations by 2.

I ended up getting 7kg of loose domehead 65mm Titadeck's from Mitre 10. They matched the price bunnings were sellling there comparitive brand for, and by the sounds of what i've read, Titadecks are a much better nail, so i think i've done pretty well. Time to get a set of kneepads and start nailing.

[dazzler]

Why buy a coil. You can buy the exact same nail loose in various size packs.. Ripping them off the coil is a pain in the butt. Also make sure you get ring shank nails. Twist shank are for hardwood joists.

I thougt twist shank were for pine so they wont pull out