Deck Builders Maroubra
Maroubra is home. I live here, and I have built decks all over it. The two jobs on this page are examples rather than the whole record — they are just the two that show the range best. One is a 46 square metre deck replacement a few streets back from the beach. The other is a small bin and scooter store that solved a problem most builders would not have taken on.
Specifications
Kyogle Street, Maroubra. 46 square metres including the stairs. Full frame and deck replacement. Existing brick piers reused, with bearers and joists set to level off them. Bearers H4, joists H3. All cuts sealed with EcoSeal. Stainless steel fixings. Joist protection through the whole frame. An H4 90×90 post acting as a retainer, with the low framing coated in a bitumen in-ground timber protector. Decking is Trex Lineage, colour Rainier.
Greg's Contractor Take
A deck near the beach is a different job to a deck four suburbs inland. Salt air gets into everything, and it finds the corners you did not seal.
That is why the unglamorous list above matters more than the board you choose. Sealed cut ends, joist protection, stainless fixings, and a coating on the timber that sits low to the ground. None of it shows in a photo of the finished deck. All of it is the reason the finished deck is still sound years down the track.
I am on the tools on every job. No subcontractors, no crew turning up while I am somewhere else.
The Before
The old timber deck had rotted out. The frame underneath was past the point where a new deck could go back on top of it, so the whole lot came out — boards and frame both.
Strip Out
The Frame
The existing brick piers were in good order, so they were kept and the new bearers and joists were set to level off them. No new footings needed.
Bearers are H4, joists H3. Joist protection runs the full length of every joist — that is the strip that keeps water from sitting between the joist and the board, which is where a timber frame usually starts to go. Every cut end sealed with EcoSeal. All fixings stainless steel, because near the beach anything less rusts.
The Low Bit Nobody Would Have Bothered With
Along one edge the ground comes up close to the frame. There is an H4 90×90 post in there doing the work of a retainer, and the framing sitting closest to the ground is fully coated in a bitumen in-ground timber protector.
It is not touching soil. It is still required — timber that close to the ground needs to be treated as if it were in the ground, and the coating takes it up to that standard. This is the classic shortcut. Skip it and nobody can see for years.
Trex Lineage, Rainier
The decking is Trex Lineage, colour Rainier. It is a capped composite, so there is no oiling and no sanding — it gets washed and that is the maintenance.
Lineage is the range with Trex’s heat-wicking technology, which matters when a deck sits in Sydney sun.
The Steps
The stairs are included in the 46 square metres, and stairs are where a deck gets judged. Even risers, boards running true off the main deck, and no awkward junction where the two meet.
Building in Maroubra
Maroubra sits right on the beach, so decks here take heat and salt air. That is the whole reason the frame detail matters as much as it does — the boards will be fine, but an unsealed frame near the coast will not.
The ground is river sand, which is good news. It drains properly, so you do not get water pooling under a deck the way you do on clay further inland.
Block sizes around Maroubra are generally good and access and parking are usually easy, which keeps a job moving. This particular one was a semi, and getting 46 square metres of deck out of a semi is a decent result.
Also in Maroubra — the bin and scooter store, Mons Avenue
A different job entirely, and the one people remember.
New owners, and nowhere to put the bins except in the way. There was a narrow strip beside the garage doing nothing — about 12 square metres, awkward shape. The driveway running past it both slopes and curves, which is the part that makes this harder than it looks. A flat box on a sloping, curving surface reads wrong straight away. The platform had to sit flush with the driveway the whole way along, following it.
Inside: three wheelie bins and a Vespa, out of sight and easy to get at.
The bay is clad in H3 dressed pine, painted to match the garage door. From the street you do not see a bin store. You see wall. That was the whole point.
The gate runs on a hidden pull catch — no handle, no latch on show, just an easy pull and it opens.
Why Choose The Decksmith for Your Maroubra Project?
I am a licensed builder — NSW licence 272840C — with 13+ years building decks across Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. I work alone on the tools. The person who quotes your job is the person who builds it and the person who sweeps up at the end.
Maroubra is my own suburb, so I know what the ground does here, what the salt air does, and how these blocks and semis are laid out before I turn up.
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Every deck is measured and quoted on site. You deal with me from the first walk around to the final sweep.