Mad Mike
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I like to water tamp the base of small slabs and enter lock. Run a sprinkler over the stones for 10 min, then retamp.
In 50 years the house's owner won't be calling you Kevin.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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In 50 years the house's owner won't be calling you Kevin.
I’m digging the colour very much….wasn’t sure when we originally ordered it…
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You and your dad should take over running the Eglinton Ave botch job. It would have a better progress rate and actually get finished
We haven’t finished yet…..
I always have grand schemes to start up my own contracting gig…but then I realize I don’t know
Neither do most of the other contractors. Finding companies that are competent at what they sell is almost an impossible job. Lots of sales and promises, little skill, care or technique.but then I realize I don’t know
100% agree, and it will only get worse as time goes on...
My dad actually wants me to have a sign made that says ‘another project by XYZ complete!’ Or something along those lines.
He’s got a company set up and it’s just sitting there being used to get us contractor pricing where possible.
I’m honoured!I have lots of work for you
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Run if someone suggests pt it is garbage now and will look old in 6 months. Trex can be very affordable if you shop around not much more than PT.
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When did it go wrong? I built my last deck out of brown pressure treated. It got some black funk on some parts after a few years but that washed off pretty easily. That deck was built in 2015 and I sold the house in late 2018.
Not sure I did a small deck in 2019 ish and ripped it off and replaced with trex in 2020 as it looked 15 years old the second spring.
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Only downside is trex gets hot 
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Build misters into the deck. Press the button before you walk across (or leave it on for a bit on really hot days).Only downside is trex gets hot
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Friends of my parents put in a trex deck decades ago when the price was to the moon. They kept talking about how awesome it was and then they dropped a hot bbq grate on the deck. That obviously left a huge scar. Luckily, that product was symmetrical and installed with clips so you could flip the boards that were damaged.
Only downside is trex gets hot
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Trex has a new product a available this summer with solar reflective technology. I don’t know how it works but for docks and pool decks it’s a game changer .
I’ve tested it back in January , it’s amazing.
Trex makes 4 levels of product to compete with Asian product coming in and some lower end ( and upper end) composite decks . Always be sure what your looking at when price shopping. Trex transcend is probably the nicest thing on the market right now , it’s going in my back yard .
Current pressure treated is “ok” , when they first introduced PT lumber they only used a specific pine that absorbed the chemicals uniform and well . Then they started treating spruce /pine/fir and the quality dropped. Some producers will treat #2/3 that would not qualify for structural lumber when doing fence board ect . And it’s pretty awful. Stuff from bigger producers is ok ,
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I have the cheap Trex Enhance and it looks like new after 3 years. We have a hose and spray it off before swimming to save the feet. the 20' boards make install very nice only 3 joints per run. https://www.homedepot.ca/product/tr...d-decking-board-saddle-1-in-x-6-in/1001400851. was cheaper when i used it but still not bad.
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The kicker for most people now , there are many that can’t / won’t do there own deck , so you put down Trex and it’s there , looking ok for 30? Yrs ? The labour cost doing things over will never go down. And it’s legitimately a selling point .
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Assuming you hired a competent contractor that didn't cheap out on joists. A deck thats wavy doesn't have nearly the selling potential.
On the 30 year deck front, joist tape yah or nay? I've seen reasonable arguments for both. I am more in the yah camp but could be persuaded that in some situations (deck boards with minimal contact, few trees to drop crap on deck), no tape may last longer.
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