Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | Brassring - 4/26/2015 16:44 ok here's the deal, my wife wants a new rear house deck, It now has a treated wood deck that lasted us a good 20 yrs. but now she wants a composite type, I don't but she does and when the wifes happy life is good!! LOL so today we went and looked at Menards and Lowes, Menards has a type that is sort of hollow I guess you would discribe it and reversible, and Lowes had a type that was sort of W shaped on the bottom ( didnt like this one at all it was warped already on shelve. one guy I talked to said get the solid type just like a actual board, now none were cheap and a guy I talked to said the hollow type tends to fill with water and freeze in the winter if the correct screws arent used and used correctly and installed correctly so what say you guys that have put in a composite type deck I would really like to hear a lot of bad so I can use wood, BUT thats not what she wants so tell me the good the bad the ugly TIA Bob
We used the solid stuff from Menards about 3-4 years ago to redo the surface of our deck. We did have to redo some of the treated 2x framing underneath, as the crossmemebers weren't close enough together to prevent unacceptable "give" when walking across the deck. So the hubs sunk some extra 4x4 posts and strung extra 2x6 stringers. We also used the composite post sleeves to cover the existing uprights. It is so much nicer than the treated surface it replaced, I couldn't be happier with it. We used a gray, and it's faded out a bit to look a lot like untreated or unstained lumber. Our house is a deep red/burgundy/gray brick, so the deck looks great. Would do it again. Hubs says this is the last deck I get on this house. It's the 3rd in 40 years.
Edit to add: We went with the solid product because the way the deck lays, we have a lot of exposed ends, and didn't want to do all the little plug-y things it would take to finish off the ends.
Edited by Mrs B 4/27/2015 09:55
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