Any philosophy for a speedy and trouble-free to build court? I have an weak, very ancient (50 years), wooden patio specifically...

I have an weak, very ancient (50 years), wooden patio specifically rotted and termite ridden. I've been tear it down, piece by piece, but what should I build in it's place. Something jammy, withstanding and has shade for the animals. Any philosophy would help.
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Answers:    After pricing the blocks or the stone for a balcony, something like you want, I be shocked.
I went to the local landfill and found they have a dry dump the local gardeners dumped their trash, no garbage. They agree to my wife and I pick.

We got a few truck loads of remarkably nice brick someone threw out. I leveled a place ten by ten, scraped the sod off and hindmost filled next to sand from a local pit.
We put in the brick and tamp it down. I next get a patio shade tent from Target for $79.00 on public sale, with the indigestible frame work and set the ends in cement so it wouldn't blow away.

I of late replaced the tent, from the same place, duplicate type, after ten years. Cost ? my labor and $79.00 plus the gas to the dump three miles away. You'd be surprised a what people throw away. We are a amazingly wasting society.
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If u have the proper tools, u can built a Plecibo/ or a redwood deck.. Buy a book on that subject and see if u can do it. Make it a do-it-urself project. Good Luck. U will hold to put it up piece by piece...just approaching a puzzle.
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