Composite Decking Project Ep1: Recycled Plastic Frame  

Best explained video on RU-vid about installing composite decking. Top man.

You're like the father I never had. Thx Daddy!

I've built loads of frames in timber, but my next one is plastic. You covered every point I needed! 👍

Loving the content Simon 🔥 Clear, concise and very instructional 👏

Been looking at deck sub frames and by far this has been the best explained and detailed esp. for UK. Liked the step feature explained. Added to my clients new deck design. Great job Simon. 🤜

Give it a few years mate, it wouldn't surprise me if you were offered a tv slot (If you wanted to go down that route) Great vid 👍

Thank you so much. Preparing mentally and physically to tackle a similar project. Such a helpful video. I am off to watch Part 2!

Nice job guys, clear concise and to the point. 👏👏👏

Professional guy👍

Brilliant work again Simon, got a composite deck coming up and your videos are a great refresher 👍

Well done for getting by onto utube Simon! Should have been here long time ago. 😊

Another great video MR Bowler 👏 keep them coming I take it Mark not getting in on the RU-vid videos🤣

Another great video . Smashing work 😊

Brilliant video again 👏👏

Great video again, I have recently found you on instagram and am enjoying all of you content. Very well put together.

Superb mate!

Lovely work 👏

Amazing and very helpful video!

Wait a minute no Mark LOL

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That deck will still be there when we have up and left this planet. I hope you have scribed your name into a joist

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About to start my new decking, (yeah, its taken a while to get here!) I note you secure your deck frame with screws, some sites suggest allowing 4mm expansion joints when using composite framing?

When building any deck is it advisable to build with a surface fall? To avoid rain water sitting on top? Or does the water make its way through the gaps in the boards? Great job and looking forward to the next episode

Nooice!

Great job Simon, Question. Could you create an elevated deck with this subframe product? I need to go up by about 1.3 meters.

Very informative video. I want to lay my decking boards at 45 degrees - will I ave t0 build a decking frame to suit this angle of final decking?

notice you use no sub base for the concrete which the concrete blocks the attach onto is that wise as any where you read you require 75 to 100mm of sub base mot 1 compacted down, for patios pathways and shed bases especially with clay?

Is the frame attached to the ground in anyway to stop it moving?

Great content as always Simon.👍 Does the frame just rest on top of concrete blocks? No fixings needed?

Very impressive mate I’m going to use this in my garden and clients as well, where do you get your materials from

What bit size are you using for pilot holes for the 6.7 construction screw?

Great job mate, just a quick question, where do you get your work trousers ? Thanks 👍🏻

Hi what is the best for the environment? Plastic or wood 😊

This is a fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. Can I ask you is there much expansion? I am intending on using plastic as joist but I will have ledger boards so worried about possible expansion.

Does it cut the same as wood .or do you need specific blades

Could you please mention where to buy it from including the base.

Do you attach the frame to the blocks?

there's a funny thing about recycled polymers. Doesn't matter which one it is. When they are injection molded the resin pellets (that's what the plastic bits are called n the industry) is heated to about 700 or so degrees F. Then, under the force of the injection Ram, the polymer is heated even more to upwards of 800 to 900 F during the shoot. Heat degrades all polymers. The injection m molding process is a heat cycle. To re-cycle the polymers, they have to be reheated to whatever temperature (in the area of 700F) to get them to blend together and is required to get a good mix and to pelletize it into resin pellets. Each heat cycle degrades the plastic more and more and more. You can't know how many heat cycles any given bit of recycled plastic might have already undergone. So anything made from recycled plastic is doomed to an early failure, thus necessitating the re-manufacturing of whatever product that it was made into in order to replace the failed one.. In the end, it's more costly, uses more resources, and really doesn't save anything. But at least it isn't like metals which, thanks to recycling, have all been contaminated with Radioactivity from 1944 Japan and Chernoble and other places. Who'd have thought the human race would wipe itself out by recycling?