[ANTHONYD]

ZTWsquared,Jul 3 2009, 10:01 AM Wrote:

ANTHONYD,Jul 3 2009, 08:55 AM Wrote:

paolo,Jul 2 2009, 06:48 PM Wrote:PT lumber is good yes.  I would check your local Aikenheads store and see what size and how much you would need for a job that size
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Awesome.
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^^ LOL Anthony ... but you never know - I might have missed that step (the part about figuring out the size and how much material I'd need) and just gone straight to digging holes and pounding lumber LOL.

Does Aikenheads still exist ... IIRC they were bought by Home Depot like a thousand years ago. In any event, they wouldn't be on my top ten list of places to buy decking material.

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Bryan you are dead on the money in terms of where my priorities are LOL - this is more about keeping my wife happy than saving money or anything else for that matter - which is why I was considering the synthetic stuff in the first place - it was her suggestion.

Having said that I think I'm shying away from the vinyls or composites the more research I do ... there's the class action lawsuit against Trex, the biggest manufacturer, for making s***ty product and false claims ... and although there seems to have been some significant technical improvements in vinyl in the past couple of years, it's still too early to tell how well it will stand up over the long-term.

At least with wood you know what you're getting (for the most part) and you know what it will take to keep it looking good for decades to come.

Having said that I'm also now going to consider the possibility of using one of the exotic woods for the decking (PT for substructure FTW) like one of the Ironwood species like Ipe, or Cumaru, or even going all out and using number one clear cedar which isn't much less expensive.

Thanks for everyone's input ... if I do something unusual I'll take pics and post them up.
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i had a friend use some sort of exotic wood on his porch. It looks absolutely stunning. I'll see if I can get a hold of him to see what it was he used exactly. I know he got it locally too!