The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[Steve85]

My dad and our neighbor built decks at the same time, neighbor painted and dad left ours natural. The next year, our deck was the natural gray that happens to treated wood and their deck needed painting. The year after that, our deck was gray and there's needed painting...again. This went on for 20 years. Yeah, not as pretty but I'd rather not have that BS every year.

And the heat thing is for real on these plastics an composites. This is an extreme case where I think it was more straight plastic than the Trex composite but if you're deck gets heavy sun, be careful.