Cape Timber Works — Timber & Composite Decking, Cape Town

The proof

Six decks. Six suburbs. Six families living outside.

Tap a project to open its story — the material, the build, and how it's ageing.

Balau deck cantilevered over the rocks at Clifton

Atlantic Seaboard

The Clifton Cantilever

Balau hardwood · glass balustrade

Cantilevered over granite with the waves visible through the gaps. Every board pre-drilled, every fixing marine-grade — five winters of salt spray, not a millimetre of movement.

Balau62 m²2019 · ageing to silver

Garapa garden deck wrapped around an oak in Constantia

Southern Suburbs

The Constantia Oak Wrap

Garapa · scribed around a living tree

The brief: don't touch the oak. So we scribed the deck around it — a floating collar with room to grow, honey-gold Garapa under dappled vineyard light.

Garapa48 m²2021 · oiled annually

Teak rooftop deck glowing at dusk in Camps Bay

Atlantic Seaboard

The Camps Bay Rooftop

Teak · lantern-lit entertaining

A rooftop that had to entertain forty and feel intimate at two. Deep amber teak, hidden fixings, and the Twelve Apostles as the back wall.

Teak55 m²2020 · satin sheen holds

Northern Suburbs

The Durbanville Family Deck

Pine · screw-free surface

Built for bare feet at full sprint. Treated pine on an engineered subframe, a braai corner that vents clean — and not one screw head anywhere a small foot can find.

Pine36 m²2022 · kid-tested daily

Composite seafront deck in Bloubergstrand

West Coast

The Blouberg Seafront

Composite · zero maintenance

Full salt-wind exposure, postcard view of Table Mountain. Composite boards on adjustable pedestals — the foundations haven't moved a millimetre in five winters.

Composite44 m²2019 · zero upkeep

Atlantic Seaboard

The Hout Bay Pergola

Timber deck · slatted pergola

Deck and pergola cut from the same timber story — rhythmic shadow lines that move across the boards all afternoon while the mountain watches.

Timber + pergola52 m²2023 · greenery climbing

The timber library

Choose your grain.

Every species has a temperament — how it feels underfoot, how it drinks oil, how it ages through fifteen Cape winters. This is the library we build from.

Balau

South-East Asia · dense tropical hardwood

Hardness: 1 600 lbf
Oil content: High
Colour: Rich red-brown

Yr 5: deepens · Yr 10: silvers nobly · Yr 15: heirloom grey, iron-hard.

Garapa

South America · golden hardwood

Hardness: 1 650 lbf
Oil content: Medium
Colour: Honey gold

Yr 5: mellows to amber · Yr 10: soft pewter · Yr 15: still splinter-free.

Teak

Plantation-grown · the yacht-deck classic

Hardness: 1 070 lbf
Oil content: Very high
Colour: Deep amber

Yr 5: satin sheen holds · Yr 10: gracious silver · Yr 15: still sheds water.

Pine

Local · CCA-treated, honest value

Hardness: 690 lbf
Oil content: Low (sealed)
Colour: Pale blonde

Yr 5: warms with care · Yr 10: rustic character · Yr 15: reseal & it carries on.

Zero maintenance

Composite

Engineered · wood-polymer core

Hardness: N/A · capped
Upkeep: Soap & water
Colour: True for life

Yr 5: identical · Yr 10: identical · Yr 15: identical. That's the point.

Timber or composite

Not "which is better" — which matches your life?

The timber life

You love that it lives.

Real grain underfoot, the smell of oil after a reseal, a deck that ages alongside your family and wears every year with pride.

Sunday afternoons oiling, glass in hand
The warmth only real wood holds
Silvering you'll come to love
Repairable, sandable, forever-fixable

The composite life

You love that it doesn't.

Lock-up-and-go weekends, sea-facing exposure, rental properties — a deck that looks like day one in year ten, asking nothing back.

Soap-and-water maintenance, done
No splinters, ever — bare-foot safe
Colour-true through Cape sun and salt
Best lifetime cost for busy households

Bring us your life — we'll bring the right board.

Where we build

Fifteen years across the Peninsula.

Atlantic Seaboard

Clifton, Camps Bay, Sea Point, Hout Bay — salt-wind builds with marine-grade fixings and views worth framing in timber.

Southern Suburbs

Constantia, Claremont, Newlands, Wynberg — garden decks under old trees, wrapped around the way you already live.

Northern Suburbs

Durbanville, Bellville, Blouberg, Table View — family decks, braai corners, and composite that beats the sea breeze.

The project brief

Let's build something worth standing on.

Not a contact form — an architect's intake. Tell us about the space, and a CTW specialist will walk it with you.

Feel it underfoot.

Obsession, at board level.

Sealed against every winter.

Fifteen years. Fifteen thousand golden hours.

A peninsula of outdoor living.

Six decks. Six suburbs. Six families living outside.

The Clifton Cantilever

The Constantia Oak Wrap

The Camps Bay Rooftop

The Durbanville Family Deck

The Blouberg Seafront

The Hout Bay Pergola

Choose your grain.

Balau

Garapa

Teak

Pine

Composite

Not "which is better" — which matches your life?

You love that it lives.

You love that it doesn't.

Fifteen years across the Peninsula.

Atlantic Seaboard

Southern Suburbs

Northern Suburbs

Let's build something worth standing on.