not4sale-
Possibly, but the decking wood is rotting (my dainty 95kg has broken a few boards where I've stood right in the mid point between joists). Removing the hundreds of decking screws from the wood is going to be a ball ache.
Given I'll have a 5m x 6m patch of bare earth where the decking used to go I was just going to pile up garden waste there for the time being. I'll have a load of that black matting used to stop plants growing (which I'm 99% sure is below the existing decking) that I can sit it on until there's a chance to get rid of it.
Can't imagine how busy the local tip will be when the lockdown is eventually eased. All of that garden waste plus crap from houses/lofts/sheds/garages that people have had time to sort through and get rid of.
Anyway, it's a relatively nice problem to have in the grand scheme of things.
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We were also about to get our garden redone:
I also have a Trimetals bike store out there with some old bikes, it's currently screwed down onto the decking to secure it.
Gardening bloke has come back to say that they aren't working during the lockdown (fair enough and it suits us). He said he'll come back when it's safer to do so and can reassess (and requote). Good news is this means I've got time to sort out a load of stuff myself and save myself some money.
I've contacted the council to try and rent another store shed in the estate opposite so I can move the bikes that are in the Trimetals bike store out of the garden for good. (I'm happy with the security now but they'll be even more secure in something brick with a big metal door - they'll also be chained with BFO chains a ground/wall anchor).
I'll then rip up the decking myself (saving £500 or so) and putting the few bits currently in the shed (mower, strimmer, garden tools, football/cricket stuff, etc) in the Trimetals which can just sit on some of loose wood from the decking to keep it off the bare earth. The shed can be dismantled too. Although nothing (shed, old decking, garden waste) can go to the local council tip as that's shut for the foreseeable.
I can even do some work to clear other parts of the garden but, again, no way of disposing of it for the moment so I won't go too big on this (council are stopping garden waste collection from the end of this week). Don't really want too big a pile of ugly stuff as we'll be wanting to spend some time in the garden this spring/summer.