To think decking is NOT a selling point anymore?

[neonyellowshoes]

We have crap decking. It's rotten.

I think we should just rip it out but DH seems to think that decking in general is a selling point. House is going on the market soon.

I hate decking anyway and this in my way.

It's not fashionable anymore, it's bloody inconvenient and a bugger to maintain. If this was our forever home I would have no hesitation about getting shot of it.

Decking is grim. I'd get rid.

He wants to get it repaired, nutter

rotten decking is not a selling point.

Non- rotten decking?

I hate ours, slippy and horrible. Going to take it all out this year.

Very 80s! Very Alan Tichmarsh. Neither of those things are good when trying to sell.

Attracts rats - never good!

Wooden decking is evil. Ours was lethally slippery when it rained and gave me a massive splinter in the bottom of my foot when it was sunny. We ripped it all out in revenge

We now have paving and a smaller area of composite decking that is much better behaved!

Haven’t seen one yet that doesn’t have a permanent puddle in the centre. Much like a municipal car park. Rip it up. Garden equivalent if that Smilie woman and her godawful MDF.

I would get rid of it if it's rotten, we would have kept the decking when we bought our house but it had rotted right through and needed to go. The patio underneath looked quite nice once we cleaned it up, is that a possibility for you? I think most people would prefer a nice patio to rotten decking.

New or well kept decking would be a selling point if the garden was large / sloping / prone to getting muddy due to bad drainage or clay soil.

Old tatty damaged decking is not only not a selling point but it may put some people off because they would have to rip it out

Rip it up. Hideous stuff

We're about to buy a house with old decking in the garden and will be ripping it up asap.

Slips, trips and broken hips.

And Rats.

Get rid.

It wouldn’t be a selling post for me , I’m not a fan of decking

I see decking and think rats, I'd not bother booking a viewing with a house with decking unless it had something every other house didn't so very unlikely.

I want to thank @neonyellowshoes for this thread.
Our garden patio area is dreadful and we've been considering our options.

Thanks to these posts, Decking has just been crossed off the list.

My mate gets rats under hers every year. It's also incredibly slippy as it gets moss/algae on it over the winter. I would plan to rip it out were I buying a house with it.

YANBU. We bought a house with it. I didn’t dislike it but on moving in day both of us nearly fell over on it as it hasn’t ever been treated. It was rotten in patches, slippery as hell and had a (thankfully empty) rats nest under it.

When our neighbour told us it had been built on top of a patio it lasted about a week before it was ripped up and a lovely patio was exposed!

So, no I don’t think it’s the selling point it once was as you just don’t know how it’s been looked after.

It's coming out!

Butlins for rats

We have no choice because of the way our garden slopes. I don't mind it.

Glad it is coming out

I would not want to buy a house with decking unless I took off the price of removal from offer price

New or well kept decking would be a selling point if the garden was large / sloping / prone to getting muddy due to bad drainage or clay soil.

^This

BTW I think of bifold doors being the decking of future - in about 10 years time

In our old house we had a wall of glass with a sliding door taking up half the wall iyswim

It stopped opening (was about 20 years old) and as it was double glazed was very heavy, so was a nightmare