Suitable Timber and Finish for Duckboard

[Wood Butcher]

SWMBO would like a duckboard for the bathroom and I would like some advice on what timber I could use and what to finish it with. I have heard people mention WRC in the past but I also have some jarrah that I don't mind the colour of. But I have no idea as to what finish would be the best??

Thanks

Rowan

[Cliff Rogers]

Pick a waterproof one.

[squashedfrog1]

'Scuse my ignorance, but what's a duckboard?

SF

[echnidna]

I got some treated pine plastic framed decking panels from Bunnies. Think they cost $11 each

Couple of good coats of poly and instant duckboards.

Otherwise any of the normal decking timbers will do.

[journeyman Mick]

Rowan,
I made on a few years ago out of some white beech left over from a boat deck job. Put it together with stainless screws (also left overs ) and left it unfinished. White beech has a greasy/waxy feel that repels water and it wears very well, not giving any splinters. For a small jobn like a duckboardit would be worth buying some.

SF,
Duckboard = basically a wooden bathmat

Mick

[MajorPanic]

Hey Rowan,

What Mick said or if you have access to Swamp Cypress (Taxodium). They build jetty's out of it in the Southern US. It's quite a common tree here. Very easy stuff to work, I've had heaps of it.

[journeyman Mick]

Hey Rowan,
only half of what the Major says is worth listening to.

Mick

[Cliff Rogers]

Hey Rowan,
only half of what the Major says is worth listening to.

Mick

And don't believe the other half.

[mic-d]

Hi butcher,
Yellow Cedar decking available from Cedar Sales in Brisbane would be excellent for this application.
Cheers
Michael

[Harry72]

'Scuse my ignorance, but what's a duckboard?

SF

I think its those wooden slat type mat thingys like you see in saunas, or a plank of wood laid across some mud or soft soil

[Cliff Rogers]

'Scuse my ignorance, but what's a duckboard?

SF

[Wood Butcher]

Where the hell do you come up with this stuff Cliff?

[coastie]

[Cliff Rogers]

Nope, friend & I were arranging to go to the Wooden Boat Raid on Tinaroo in 2005 & we planned to sail there towing 2 other boats.
I said we would look like mother duck with a string of ducks behind us.
Several beers & lots of laughs later, we had a duckboard with several plastic ducks glued to it... the glue wasn't very good, we lost a few ducks on the way.
Turned up at the sailing club just in time for the sail past & well, that is a VERY photographed duckboard.