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Should pressure treated decking be gapped? There’s been a big debate on our YouTube channel lately. Find out why we gap our pressure treated decking on a deck.

Installing deck boards crown up or down can impact how the deck ages. So what do you do with crowning deck boards? Here is how to lay deck boards.

How to Build a Deck Video Series part 3 focuses on some finer points of decking, stairs and rails. Here’s what you need to know about building a deck.

I love how this pergola makeover came out. Clean, pretty, and a LOT better than before. We made the base out of wood and we…

Are you heading to the Remodeling Show / Deck Expo / JLC Live? We’ll be there, too. Mark is psyched. His favorite project is building…

Why Choose Real Wood Decking?

Maybe it’s because one of the most formative periods of my home improvement life was building swim-floats and docks in Cape Cod’s salt water bays…

What You Need to Know: New Decking Preservatives

In 2004, after dominating the market for more than 70 years, wood treated with CCA (chromated copper arsenate) was withdrawn from residential use due to…

So what is new in decking?

I remember when there were roughly a billion fewer choices of deck boards and railing systems. The first decks I worked on as a carpenter’s…