It's not showing in the Ozzie forum. You need to change your country to oz, then start a new thread, with the photos and post it. If you go to the Ozzie forum, you won't be able to find it. So what I think you have done, is just change your setting...but you need to post fresh I am afraid! So you will have two posts, one in NZ forum and one in oz...but the Ozzie peeps will only see your oz one, so don't mention posting previously Keep that between us. :)

Hi there, I am building a deck which will be level with the ground and enclosed on all sides. I understand this is a big no-no, but it's the design we have envisioned. I'm just wondering what I can do to increase ventilation? The deck will have 300mm clearance from the ground. We are planning on doing 140 x 32mm pine decking. For spacing between boards we were looking at 6-10mm spacing. We will slope the ground towards a drain and connect it to the storm water drain. The ground is a combination of sand and dirt, then 100mm below that is clay. Would we have problems with ventilation? Should we lay down some polythene so all the water will flow into the drain? Is there anything else we could do to increase ventilation? Thank you

Hi. I have a concrete patio 85m2 fairly good condition and mostly under suffet. Slopping away from house My understanding I cannot put joists directly to concrete needs 12mm clearance min for air and water run off, I was going to use a dampcourse underlay and set joist perpendicular to houseany ideas nurajacks are pricey and there calculation I needed 300 or so, thanks in advance

Our builders have picked up on a problematic weather tightness issue where the free draining deck meets the house. Due to this steel being a C section steel there is no real way to put flashings in around this area and be 100% confident water would not track back in along the steel. Given the location of this being north facing it is exposed to very high winds also making this issue more highlighted and we are not prepared to build the deck without weatherproof details that will not fail. The suggestion is to move to a more conventional non draining TPO Deck which is a huge price increase. Anyone have any other options??