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That was going to be one of my questions, they recommend laying on a concrete base and then on their system, but if i'm doing that I might as well just lay a patio, so was going to do the traditional decking method of posts in the ground and then make a frame for it to sit on.
Did you source the millboard yourself or get your builder to get it? And any reason why you went for Millboard or any of the other composites?
Sam_w-
Posts in the ground and frame is what he did for the bit sitting on the soil base.
The builder sourced as he got a discount; we were going to pick it up from Champion Timber but he was ~10% cheaper.
We went for Millboard because it looked the nicest. We wanted it to look as much like natural wood as possible whilst still looking clean and sharp.This is the only pic I have of the ground before. You can see the old, rotten scaffold boards the previous owner used. The decking goes all the way to where the fence is painted so past the concrete base and onto soil...
Soul
Yup - we've got Millboard for our decking area.
Ours has a couple of levels as it sits on top of the concrete base of an old garage as well as a concrete walkway and just a lower part of the original garden.
The builder who installed it used normal pressure treated timbre underneath rather than their super expensive proprietary system.
Obviously, we didn't do the installation but it seems like a super easy material to work with.
This is ours: