Deck Sanding Sorrento

Decks in Sorrento take a hammering. Located a few streets in from the water at most, and with typical stock of 1880s limestone heritage homes, federation cottages and postwar holiday shacks, the average deck here sees hard summer sun, southerly wind and salt spray year-round.

The finish that was on it two summers ago is very likely silver, splintering and starting to lift. Left much longer and boards start splitting through the fixings — then the job becomes replacement rather than restoration.

Near Sorrento Front Beach, we’ve done a lot of work on both original 1970s decks and more recent hardwood rebuilds. The process is the same: sand back to raw timber, replace anything split, then oil with a system chosen for your specific exposure.

Deck work in Sorrento is quoted turn-key from $70/m² (Peninsula band, typical whole-job $10,500–$18,000). That figure is the same turn-key basis we use for interior floors here — it covers the strip-back, board replacement, fixing punch-down and the oil system itself, priced after we have walked the deck. A $22–$35/m² promotional rate covers a single sanding pass and nothing else, which is why those quotes grow once the split boards and lifted fixings turn up.

A refreshed Peninsula deck should last two summers of full use before it needs another top-up — and that top-up is a quick job compared to a full strip-back.