A deck is a structural element of a garden or terrace that could be called in Spanish as a deck. A deck is a terrace made of natural wood or wood made from recycled plastic materials that may or may not be elevated on the ground. For the installation of a deck, a set of wooden or aluminum pillars are firmly supported on the ground. The pillars will support a wooden slab or aluminum anchored to them. The plastic or natural wooden flooring is finally placed on the slab
Depending on the characteristics of the deck, it can provide habitable or practicable spaces both above and below the structure. The work material allows adding design elements such as pergolas, lattices, benches or planters, obtaining harmonious environments made entirely of wood.
For this reason, it can be said that a deck is a terrace made of wood or composite wood. It is installed cleaner and faster than a ceramic terrace. At the same time, the structural material itself aesthetically completes the structure without the need for other waterproofing, draining, structural or aesthetic elements; as may be necessary on-site.
The materials
The wood used in this type of structure must always be prepared for exposure to the outdoors. We will differentiate between the wood used to form the structure and the wood that forms the flooring. The structure is generally made of aluminum or of, previously treated for the exterior.
The deck can be made of ipe, cumarú, lapacho, yellow pine, team or other conifers, tropical woods, or composite woods previously autoclaved and preferably finished with oil for a wooden deck, already open pore, which allows us to obtain the color we want; or tropical woods such as Ipé, with high natural resistance to external agents due to its high density, in this case, the most common treatment is based on teak oils and the finish color is the natural color of the partially darkened wood by the oils. In recent years, synthetic decks have become popular in the market, whose advantages over natural wood make them suitable for making outdoor floors.