Deck renovation project

[Rick-o]

Very nice! (tu)

How long are those plastic things supposed to last?

[RAMd®d]

WOW, you are quite the handygirl, rg!

The deck looks amazing

And you did it on the comparative cheap Well done!


but not a lot hotter than the regular deck boards, which were also too hot to walk on.

Once you reach that threshold, it doesn't matter which is hotter. Once in Hawaii, I tried walking on the sand on a particularly sunny day and it was waaaay too hot. The pain didn't go away for quite awhile.

I love teak.

[rgG]

Rick-o wrote:
Very nice! (tu)

How long are those plastic things supposed to last?

The ones sold on the HD site, made by the same company, have a 10 year warranty.

[tuqqer]

Really good work. Thanks for posting

[Racer X]

I, for one, are somewhat undecided. Sometimes, you need to put an item into context to truly apriciate the whole package. Any chance your daughter will fly in for a bikini photo shoot so I can judge based on real-world conditions?

Maybe with Minnie Mouse high heels?

[rgG]

Racer X wrote:
I, for one, are somewhat undecided. Sometimes, you need to put an item into context to truly apriciate the whole package. Any chance your daughter will fly in for a bikini photo shoot so I can judge based on real-world conditions?

Maybe with Minnie Mouse high heels?

Should have known. Lol

[Michael]

Very nice!

A couple of years ago I spent many, many hours pulling nails from pressure treated deck boards and flipping them over and screwing them back down. They looked like new when I was done but it was a huge amount of work. Yours looks very nice and would certainly be much easier. Nice job!

[rgG]

Michael wrote:
Very nice!

A couple of years ago I spent many, many hours pulling nails from pressure treated deck boards and flipping them over and screwing them back down. They looked like new when I was done but it was a huge amount of work. Yours looks very nice and would certainly be much easier. Nice job!

I actually thought about doing what you did, but it just seemed like too much work, so I took the lazy way out. Lol

[Rick-o]

rgG wrote:
[quote=Rick-o]
Very nice! (tu)

How long are those plastic things supposed to last?

The ones sold on the HD site, made by the same company, have a 10 year warranty.
That seems fair. I was wondering how well they hold up to sunlight after a few years.

I'm also curious how slippery they are with a coating of rainwater or snow. Any texture to them?

[rgG]

Rick-o wrote:
[quote=rgG]
[quote=Rick-o]
Very nice! (tu)

How long are those plastic things supposed to last?

The ones sold on the HD site, made by the same company, have a 10 year warranty.
That seems fair. I was wondering how well they hold up to sunlight after a few years.

I'm also curious how slippery they are with a coating of rainwater or snow. Any texture to them?
There is a slight wood grain texture to them. I would say they feel pretty much like a brand new piece of pressure treated wood that has a slight grain to it. They might be slicker, I would think, if they were installed in a vertical pattern where all the tiles were going in the same direction, but with the slight texture, and the alternating directional pattern like I used, they don't seem very slick. I was just walking around on them this morning, and they were soaking wet from the torrential rain we had last night. They did not seem slight at all. I push broomed the water off the deck, just to speed up the drying, since the water does sit on top and doesn't soak in at all.

As for snow, that really isn't much of a concern for us in the Deep South, but I can see why you would want to know. I did read a review of the 12x12 tiles, I think on HD or Amazon, from a lady in Canada that said they held up well in the snow.

I am hoping they hold up to the sun. They are a "cap" composite, and I have read that the material they use to encapsulate the composite is akin to what is used for the casing of a golf ball. We will see. I would hope that they have been around long enough that bad reviews would have cropped up by now, if they didn't hold up, but who knows.