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We currently rent and the house has a decent size garden but it is built in 3 sections with each section higher than the last. So there is a small patio outside the back door with steps up to a concrete section and then more steps up to a section with trees and lined with gravel.
It's not a very child friendly garden, I got our two year old a slide/climbing thing and I put down foam tiles on the second section which is fine but we can't let him go out there on his own as it's just dangerous. What I would like to do is deck the small patio and put up a gate to stop him going up into the upper sections of the garden. The patio section is pretty grim as the tiles have been down about 30 years plus there is a 6 inch drop from the back door so I want to make it a little nicer. As we rent I want to do this as cheaply as possible and obviously it would have to be removable (unless the landlord like it) when we leave.
The patio section is 490cm x 265cm and I was going to get some of the Ikea Platta wood decking tiles but I think I would need about 50 to deck this section (although maths was never my strong point so I may have worked that out wrong).
I then found this pallet wood deck which doesn't look too bad and I could probably find some palets but it looks a lot of work and I think drainage would be a problem in an enclosed patio.
So do you have any tips on cheap decking?
It's not a very child friendly garden, I got our two year old a slide/climbing thing and I put down foam tiles on the second section which is fine but we can't let him go out there on his own as it's just dangerous. What I would like to do is deck the small patio and put up a gate to stop him going up into the upper sections of the garden. The patio section is pretty grim as the tiles have been down about 30 years plus there is a 6 inch drop from the back door so I want to make it a little nicer. As we rent I want to do this as cheaply as possible and obviously it would have to be removable (unless the landlord like it) when we leave.
The patio section is 490cm x 265cm and I was going to get some of the Ikea Platta wood decking tiles but I think I would need about 50 to deck this section (although maths was never my strong point so I may have worked that out wrong).
I then found this pallet wood deck which doesn't look too bad and I could probably find some palets but it looks a lot of work and I think drainage would be a problem in an enclosed patio.
So do you have any tips on cheap decking?
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