Trex Deck

I have hear the same comments about the surface temperature of this material.

For all of the expense, it seems the only real advantage is minimum maintenance.

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It’s a good looking project tho. I heard about the heat thing too. I’ve been considering making a glider out of trex. Do you think that it would be an appropriate choice for that?

-- gjd Southcentral Wisconsin

I’ve thought about benches and the like out of Trex, using those wrought iron ends you can get from Harbor Freight. It makes sense from a low maintenance viewpoint for a glider, just be prepared to toast your buns if the sitting surface has been in direct sun. If the glider is covered in some way, then you should be fine.

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From my experience with Trex (and like material), is the that it does retain heat, and it stains maybe worse than regular wood decks boards do. By stains, I mean Birds dropping berries, of the berries on bushes near the decking, have stained pretty badly on one of the decks I built for someone. There’s definitely pro’s and con’s to using either type for decks.

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Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Capt. – lots of hard work and great effort on behalf of your friend/neighbor – If there is ever another one, and to all three parties above – you would do well to check out Weatherbest as an alternative to Trex. it’s properties in all the areas you mention are better – heat, stains wash off, and most of all it is solid material where I believe Trex is hollow core. Thus you can cut curves and the like without working with a jagged Erector Set sort of limitation. See the Weatherbest web site for photos of decks. Weatherbest also has two grain patterns one on each side to choose from.

As to the present deck, I would like to suggest the deck boards should all run parallel in whatever orientation and trim at the end instead of the geometric patterns – far less work, less wasted material and cost.

No, I don’t think I would try using engineered stuff like any of these for the swing/glider. It is also exceptionally heavy.

-- Regards, Steve2