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We added a deck safety gate to our front veranda to help keep the kids from falling down the stairs. The gate can also be locked for added security if desired.
I was lucky in that I had some railing left over from the old landing that was torn down when they lifted our house. [...]

It was a sad day a few weekends ago when we finally sold our deck.
It took us almost two-weeks to sell the deck after we first advertised the deck for sale in the Townsville Bulletin. We had a lot of people call and say they were going to come, and not show up. We had [...]

We have had two extremely heavy days of rain  the last month or so. They have highlighted to us our leaking front veranda and leaking upstairs windows. The first day was the heaviest recorded in over a decade, and the second day was 18cm, or 7 inches of rain.

As you can see, not everyone thought [...]

We finally came to the tough decision to sell the deck instead of putting the deck up on the back of our house.

I was really looking forward to the elevated deck off the back of our Queenslander, but we will still be able to use the pavers from our old house to put a patio [...]