Decking in Halifax
Nestled among the rolling hills between Leeds and Manchester, the town of Halifax often goes unnoticed as a potential lure for house-hunters and property enthusiasts. But the bustling conurbation offers an impressive mixture of history, style and progression to attract many different sectors of the housing market.
Halifax built its reputation as a leader of the woollen manufacturing industry in the 15th century, and there are still plenty of reminders of that proud legacy in the town’s architecture, infrastructure and range of period properties. Some of Halifax’s most prominent current buildings originate from that influential past, with Dean Clough – a half mile long retail, leisure and office complex – being renovated from a former textile mill, and the Piece Hall – a public market and magnet for independent arts and craft shops – also a stately remnant of the wool trade.
Of course, Halifax is not just famous for its industrial past, it has a banking heritage as the birthplace of Yorkshire and Halifax Building Societies, a confectionary reputation as the place where Mackintosh originated and an eye for the innovative, as home to the ground-breaking children’s museum Eureka!
Such a diverse, multi-cultural identification is reflected in the range of properties available in Halifax, with traditional stone houses on cobbled streets and modern housing developments mixing with refurbished mill buildings and lofty apartments. The modern regeneration of Halifax has allowed for the characteristic population to be supplemented by a thriving housing market, looking to take prosperous contemporary living out of the big cities.
One of the best ways to advance in the property market in current times is to add value to your property, and there are many ways to do that. Installing decking has been found to be the most cost-effective home improvement in terms of adding value, mainly because it recoups more cost than the outlay on more expensive home improvement projects such as extensions, extra bathrooms or loft conversions.
The benefits of decking don’t end there, however. There is an increasing desire to make a feature of garden space, with people needing facilities to hold parties and barbecues, and decking provides the perfect platform for extending outside. Furthermore, it offers a great extended and safe family space, and also provides dry and flat storage options for garden furniture in the winter.
In addition to the affordable initial installation costs, decking has the added benefit of being easy and quick to install, you can even do it yourself if you so desire. This minimises disruption to the inside of the house, and installing decking won’t rid you of essential services during the process.
Many people prefer the neat, flat lines of decking to the cluttered nature of a landscape garden or the less homely feel of a concrete patio. Certainly decking offers more options in terms of sizing and levels of flat surfaces and also enables you to change colour through paints and stains. Let’s also not forget we are doing our bit for the environment in using natural resources instead of concrete.
As Halifax continues its quest to remain a town offering versatile properties in terms of style, size and affordability, decking plays an important role as a home improvement feature that combines convenience, flexibility and an eye for contemporary design.