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In Ontario April and up to mid May is terrible time to build a deck as it's raining, temperatures vary from -1 to 80°, having employees dependant on hours during these two issues...you will lose your business. Always schedule right after mother's day.
Hi! I live in Stouffville, Ontario. We are redoing our deck this season and we decided to go with composite. Our deck is between our house and garage. We walk through it as our main entrance to the house. So in the winter it has to be shoveled and salted. Do you find that composite will withstand melting salt and shoveling? Any tips for maintaining the deck during the winter? Our current winter deck got destroyed because of winter and salt.
Hi! We honestly never had to salt our deck so I can’t speak to that. But we did shovel it and it held up well to that. We used a plastic shovel though so you may just want to avoid anything with metal (which could scratch). Happy deck building :)
I would definitely look for a shovel without a metal edge. If you are in harsh conditions, consider pvc decking. It has no wood fibers. So it should last as long as those plastic bags we sent to the dump over the last 50 years! Honestly, some decking is made from recycled plastics
One of may customers has duradek plank style deck. I live in Alberta Canada, and once it starts getting -1degress Celsius the deck gets very slippery. I always us a blower to make sure there is no ice or snow on it all winter. I'd like to get any advice to rectify this problem, without doing any damage. My customer is retired and a fall could be life threatening.
I just got an estimate to build a new deck, 12x24, 9 feet off ground. For composite (brand unknown), they wanted $56,000. I asked what wood would cost. $27k. Now, these guys were incredible installing windows and doing other carpentry. But this was outrageous. I called another person with good reviews. For Wolf Composite decking, 6x6 posts and 12 inch centers with picture frame edge, aluminum railings: $22k. I have one more person coming over to do an estimate. I'm guessing he's in the same ballpark. Area of country: Lancaster, Pa. The $22k (25 with deck removal) is affordable. The first estimates are not. Shame. I really liked that company.
Update: My deck was finished a month ago and it looks great. Final price was $32,700. Final size was 12x23 with black aluminum railings. Justin Shelton of Evergreen Carpentry did the work. Picture frame edges around deck. Each step was mitered so the raw edges of the pvc were hidden. After he was done I put landscape fabric over the ground underneath and dumped 4 tons of red tipple stone under the deck. Then I built walls on each side, leaving a gap in the back.
Good review on the deck, but can I ask about your pergola? Is it made of metal? Is it dark grey? Looks exactly what we may need and I was wondering what store you got it from? Thanks.
We got a free standing pergola from Home Depot. It came with a sun shade but we removed it. Something kind of like this - www.homedepot.ca/product/sojag-yamba-10-ft-x-10-ft-pergola/1001656482
Am I the only one that's had a bad experience with Trex Composite Decking material.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V7IGdt4dHs4.html
This really has more to do with install than the boards themselves. It was my partner's first time working with this material so it's not 100% perfect...but what is :)
It's called the English language FFS! You Yanks should learn how to speak properly.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qWrpOFPstBs.html
And nobody noticed the board she moves with her right hand fingers during the intro? Just her fingers? If it's that loose after 3 years, I might just stick with wood.....
This doesn't have anything to do with the material. It just has to do with a miscalculation of the length of this particular board and not wanting to waste a whole piece. What moves is just a little filler piece that we didn't bother to glue or nail down b/c we were lazy haha
It’s nice, A 60’s ranch gutted and replaced with a nice new trendy track home ranch. Bungalows have a upstairs. Would at least need a attic space with windows to call it a traditional bungalow. Would make a good air b&b. Lol, I’m all for vintage. Just not in my house!
@@ericcajo No, there isn't. Did you have to look it up in the dictionary to work that out? If you pronounce the word properly, there is no confusion. If you learnt to pronounce it the wrong way, well you would think that.
with Trex you wont have the sun/heat issue --- the cheaper deck materials are more recycled plastics in them thats why --- my Trex deck in leather soled shoes was hot on the feet yet when I walked bare foot that same time it was just warm/ cool to the touch on the feet !
Trex also gets plenty hot in direct sunlight. Of course, the lighter the coloring, the less pronounced this will be. Also, Trex is 95% recycled materials, more than most any other brand, and they actually pride themselves on that fact.
@@mockingbird187 my comment -- our deck got 100% full sun ... like I said it was not hot to bare feet at 3 in the afternoon - it was a dark gray deck -- I never felt it hot--- sure warm but hey its in the full sun -- The other brand at HD when I picked up a piece out side was too hot to hold that brand had 95% plastic in it --- Trex at the time said 75 to 80% sawdust and 15 to 18% recycled milk bottle plastic
@@MrPaultopp aside from the deck boards getting warm, we haven't noticed any splitting or fading. It's held up incredibly well in our Canadian winters/summers. Sadly, I can't say the same for the 4 x 4 PT wood posts we used to anchor our privacy fence, which were installed at the same time.
@Jay E - it's called the English language! We can't help it if you Yanks don't know how to use it properly.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qWrpOFPstBs.html
May 2022 prices. per 16' 5/4x6 board, (Trex is 15/16") Trex is 3.5 times more than Cedar and 5.5 times more than Pressure Treated. Just Sayin',as a Deck Builder.
@@robertviens6104 with wood going up like crazy, it's hard to imagine composite rising exponentially with barely any wood in it. But I guess it is, like everything.
Hi Rachel , I’m currently working with Mat on a Reno for a duplex conversion. This helped tremendously in picking out design elements and seeing them work together. We did a PowerPoint last night for our project after watching your video and it made all the difference with picking certain design elements. Great video and thanks for sharing your tips and tricks !
The staging really did make such a big impact! Especially when you showed the main floor empty vs staged... so nice!! 🙂 Now that you guys have your own staging company, do you have a little team to help move the furniture in and out? Or is it just you and Mat?
For our rentals we use a base model from Frigidaire but for our flips (which are featured here), we go with a more upgraded model - most recently, we've gone with a flat top /front control Maytag one :)
