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 ...

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Wood decks or decks constructed out of a composite product? The debate during the last decade or so has been fierce. At first blush, composite decks appear to be superior: maintenance-free, longer ...

In the late 1990s, Trex became a pioneer in the industry of composite lumber for decks. It used ground-up portions of wood mixed with pulverized plastic, much of which was recycled, and made a ...

Wood-filled/thermoplastic composites, first introduced to consumers in the early 1990s, may represent the largest single consumer growth market for composite ...

If you’re planning to build a deck this summer, and you want that deck to demand as little ongoing maintenance as possible, then you should consider something called composite lumber. It requires no ...

This year, when consumers flock to lumberyards and home centers for their annual supply of more than 4.5 billion linear feet of deck-building materials, they may go home with much less real wood. In ...