Thermally modified wood has solidified its place as a leading material for exterior applications. Pairing this ...

But one affordable wood decking material comes with major downsides, like a tendency to splinter, high maintenance requirements, and a lack of resistance to rot and insects: hem-fir. Hem-fir is ...

Almost any decking material will give you reliable (though ... which makes it impervious to rot and the various molds that ...

The best composite decking products, according to Consumer Reports, whose testing experts evaluated planks from Azek, ...

A lakeside deck makes an ideal vantage point for an alfresco meal. If appreciating the scenery is just as important as ...

Maintaining a deck in Naperville, IL calls for the right materials that can endure the region’s extreme climate, which has hot summers, cold winters, and ample precipitation. The everchanging weather ...

At this rate I'll be removing the decking and replacing with wood within a year. Had I known the material was so soft and less durable than wood I would have gone a different route. After reading ...

The Battleship Iowa, a tourist attraction in the Port of Los Angeles since 2012, is among the more recent additions to the ...

Decking comes with trade-offs depending on which brand, material, and species you choose. As a rule, wood tends to resist flexing better than composites. Composites, on the other hand, generally ...