Outdoor living · Brisbane
The room you’ll actually live in, eleven months of the year.
Hardwood decks, pergolas and covered outdoor rooms built for the Brisbane climate. Designed with you, engineered properly, and approved through council before a post goes in the ground.
Free design visit. Expect a call within a business day.
Licence
QBCC licensed
Number to come demo
Where we build
Brisbane, bayside and the western suburbs
First step
Free design visit, about an hour
No deposit, no design fee
Warranty
Workmanship warranty
Terms to confirm demo
Recent work
Decks, pergolas and covered outdoor rooms, built by one carpentry crew.
Covered outdoor room
Deck and roof built as one room
Pergola with a roof
Open timber frame, sheeted overhead
Roof framing
Beams and sheeting, from below
What we build
Three ways to make a Brisbane backyard usable
Hardwood decks
Spotted gum, blackbutt or merbau over a hardwood or steel frame. Built high off the ground on a sloping block, or low and wide off a slab.
Pergolas
Open-batten shade over a deck, courtyard or poolside. Oriented and spaced for the sun angles your yard actually gets.
Covered outdoor rooms
Insulated roof panel or Colorbond over a full deck, with fans, lighting and power. The one that becomes the room you use most.
How it works
From first visit to first barbecue
Design visit
We measure, check the ground and sketch options with rough costs.
- About an hour, free
Drawings & fixed quote
Plan, elevation, timber and finish selections, one fixed price.
- Within a week
Engineering & approval
Mostly waiting. A private certifier is faster than council.
- 3–6 weeks
Build
Footings, frame, deck, then cover, electrical and finishes.
- 2–5 weeks on site
Certify & hand over
Final inspection, certificate issued, and how to oil it. Site left clean.
- Certificate issued
Beams and sheeting from below. Photo from the Blackbutt content pack.
Why Blackbutt
Most deck problems in this city are drainage problems.
A deck that traps water against the house will rot from below, however good the timber was. We design around that first.
Ventilation and fall, designed in
Airflow under the frame, a gap at the house, boards laid so water runs off.
Engineered and certified, always
Footing sizes from a real engineer for your soil class and wind rating.
We do the council paperwork
Plans, engineering, private certifier and final inspection, all in the quoted price.
One carpentry crew, start to finish
The same two or three faces for the whole build.
The short version
What to expect, in numbers.
Free to start, and the same carpentry crew from footings to finish.
Free design visit
1 hr
To drawings and a fixed quote
1 wk
On site, depending on size
2–5 wk
Carpentry crew, start to finish
One
What clients say
“Our block falls away steeply and two builders said they’d need to drop the deck a metre. Blackbutt engineered it level with the kitchen floor, and now the whole back of the house opens onto it.”
Dave M.
Camp Hill
“They talked us out of the bigger pergola we asked for and into an insulated roof over half of it. Completely right: we use it in the rain now, and it cost less than the original plan.”
Priya N.
Ashgrove
“Our old deck had rotted where it met the house. They found the cause was a blocked gutter, sorted that first, then rebuilt. Anyone else would have just replaced the boards.”
Ken R.
The Gap
Demo testimonials from the content pack.
A Brisbane street from above. Photo from the Blackbutt content pack, not a map.
Where we build
Brisbane, bayside and the western suburbs
We keep the radius tight so one crew is on your site every day of the build, rather than splitting between jobs across the south-east.
Book a design visit before spring
Approvals take three to six weeks.
So a deck you want for Christmas needs starting now. The visit is free.