so if you want to build your terrace yourself, I think you should really reconsider. Or be prepared to have a lot of endurance.
Actually, we wanted a wooden terrace from the beginning, but many people advised us to choose stone because of its durability. We stuck with the wood idea and informed ourselves. The board prices (of the usual "suspect woods") were too expensive for us – or so we thought.
so we used our own wood. We seem to have tons of it lying around at the moment. We had suitable beams and boards cut at the sawmill and then seasoned them over the winter.
setting the beam layer was still the easiest part...
We felt like we ran the boards through the planer a hundred times to reduce the thickness from 5cm to 4cm. Then each board was painted multiple times all around... My husband then screwed these tricky, occasionally twisted boards onto the beam structure. It would have been much easier with bought boards. well, hindsight is always 20/20.
Then we painted the surface twice more and "quickly" (which actually went pretty fast) assembled a garden table.
Material costs for the terrace (sawmill, paint, screws, cement, and whatever else you need) were about 1000 euros. The terrace stain made up about half of these costs.
Working time: I’d rather not even think about it... maybe 50 hours? but I don’t think that’s enough.
