Wood Deck Water Sealers/UV Protection

[bomelia]

How come the deck does not catch on fire?


Mike

[Wes Tausend]

Originally Posted by bomelia

How come the deck does not catch on fire?


Mike

Mike,

I've heard that some decks not constructed with quality Oregon grown Douglas Fir do catch on fire.


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[1ntCobra]

My deck boards are 100% recycled plastic milk jugs (no wood content at all). The deck is 4 years old and never requires sealing.

[Wes Tausend]

Originally Posted by 1ntCobra

My deck boards are 100% recycled plastic milk jugs (no wood content at all). The deck is 4 years old and never requires sealing.

I had a single-step landing that was constructed of plastic 1x6 inch boards. You could even see flecks of recycled plastic in the sawn core. Ick.

It worked fairly well for a number of years even holding its color which wasn't great. It was a strange light brown. The main flaw with it is that it was unbelievably slippery in the winter.

So I finally used part of it to create a rot-proof containing border for a landing made of driveway pavers. We painted it a more desirable dark brown to match trim. It looks very nice. The first really hot day, it expanded away from my nicely mortered solid bricks about 3/8 inch on each end. Arrghhh.

Should have known. While I used plastic cold lines, I did my hot supply plumbing with copper lines just because of the expansion characteristics of plastic.

[Scott S]

Originally Posted by 1ntCobra

My deck boards are 100% recycled plastic milk jugs (no wood content at all). The deck is 4 years old and never requires sealing.

We use old plastic milk jugs to carry herbicide.

We use the herbicide to make more room for the Doug Fir, it seems we will need more now that the deck building boom has started.

Beautiful Roscoe!

Scott S

[bomelia]

Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

Mike,

I've heard that some decks not constructed with quality Oregon grown Douglas Fir do catch on fire.


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Yeah, so I have heard...most in the Sublimity OR area...

Mike