North End2025
Double-Height Rear Addition
A dark, closed-in clapboard century home opened up with a double-height rear addition, a new kitchen and a 20-foot run of glazing to the back yard.
- Duration
- 16 weeks
Tantallon · 2025
Raised Deck & Outdoor Kitchen
A raised deck with a steel-framed louvred pergola and a built-in outdoor kitchen, engineered for coastal wind load and salt exposure.
- Location
- Tantallon, St Margarets Bay
- Service
- Outdoor
- Completed
- 2025
- Time on site
- 4 weeks
The brief
A raised deck and roofed outdoor kitchen on a Tantallon property with real coastal exposure. The clients wanted somewhere genuinely usable through winter, not just a deck.
The challenge
Coastal salt exposure means the wrong fixings fail within a few years, and the deck height required proper engineering rather than an eyeballed post layout. The clients had also pre-selected composite decking without knowing how the cost compared to hardwood.
What we did
Engineered the raised structure, installed footings and structural posts, and used fixings rated for the actual exposure of the site. Built the pergola framing, roofing and screening, then the outdoor kitchen joinery and BBQ bench. We priced both hardwood and composite and let the clients choose with real numbers in front of them.
The result
Four weeks on site. They went composite and have not had to touch it since.
Gallery
On site and finished
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Tell us what you want to build
A site visit, a proper measure and a fixed-price quote, at no cost and with no obligation. If your budget will not stretch to your brief, we will tell you at the first meeting.
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