The low-maintenance decking materials currently on the market include hardwoods like ipe and cumaru and metals like aluminum and galvanized steel, but the two most popular are composite and cellular ...

Wood, composite, or... aluminum? There are many deck options out there, and we're here to tell you which one holds up the ...

Composite decking has a lot to offer over traditional wood options. Easy maintenance, for one. Composite decking—an amalgam of ground-up wood and plastic formed into planks—doesn’t ever need to be ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - If you're dreaming of spending the summer outside on a new deck this year, now is the time to start planning. Jason Gioffre, co-owner of Restoration Exteriors, talks about the ...

How a CR home editor dealt with material shortages and higher prices as he searched for the best decking material April 2022: Our finished deck, two years in the making. By Paul Hope In early 2020, my ...

Orlando, Fla. — Deck makers continue to add capacity, launch new products and take leading roles in the circular economy as PVC and composite products carve out bigger shares of the wood-dominated ...

Trex Co. Inc. is working with distributors, builders and vendors to take back scraps of its composite decking, which is made from 95 percent recycled polyethylene and wood, to recycle again into new ...

In early 2020, my family and I hired pros to tear off the stone steps, wrapped with a waist-height rock wall, at the back of our house. The steps were nearly 100 years old, and the entire fixture was ...