Publications

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Professional Designers' Manual: sample pages

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Professional Designers' Manual

The Timber Decking Manual is the definitive professional guide for decking designers and builders providing best practice guidance to ensure long lasting performance. It covers both domestic and commercial situations and includes span tables for commonly used species and profile sizes.

If you like to purchase a digital edition of this manual please contact us.

£36.00 (UK) / £40.00 (Europe/ROI) / £47.00 (outside Europe)

List of decking members

A list of Timber Decking and Cladding Association DECKING sector members and Approved decking Retailers.

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List of cladding members

A list of Timber Decking and Cladding Association CLADDING sector members and Approved Cladding Retailers.

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How to keep your deck looking good

TDCA guidance on how to rejuvenate a timber deck and keep it in tip top condition.

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A Builder's Guide to Timber Decking

An 8 page brochure outlining the key principles of deck design and installation the TDCA way. The information given in this publication is based on those guidelines for installation on domestic properties. Commercial decks require more robust design, materials and construction to deal with the loads placed on them and are not covered by the guidance in this brochure - please refer to the Professional Designers Manual.

This publication is available as a free download to Registered users. Register / login

£3.00

Building a timber substructure to support WPC deck boards

An 8 page brochure providing guidance on what to consider when building a timber substructure for wood plastic composite (WPC) deck boards. Commercial decks require more robust design, materials and construction to deal with the loads placed on them and are not covered by the guidance in this brochure - please refer to the Professional Designers Manual.