Great job!

Looks pretty light and stylish! Great job!

Love the update! Deck railing looks fabulous with the home!

Fantastic update! Good work!

Great update!

Very well done. What is the material used for the deck?

Trex Transcend, Color Tiki Torch.

Susan,

If the subframe of the deck is good and installed correctly we remove the old boards and go over it. We also change 4x4 post if they need to be changed and we add Z-flashing at ledger connection to the house to keep the water away from the dwelling.

Is the white plastic or painted? If its painted I want to see the after after picture in a year. I already know what its gonna look like. from the pics, looks like the posts are plastic but the ledger and stair risers are painted.

As an example, just a few days ago my neighbor came to see my deck(its in the before and after). she said her deck was painted last year and was promised/guaranteed it would last. Now just a year later she said it looks terrible.

I have never seen a painted deck look good a year later even with the best paint and properly prepared. You have to stain if you want it to last. Otherwise your gonna be painting every other year.

but anyway, real nice job on the redo.

Tony,

The deck skirt and stair risers are Certainteed Restoration board. The beauty of it, the material can be cut, shaped and routed like wood, only it's made from cellular PVC. With this material there is no worry about rotting, moisture or warping and you also get a choice of Smooth or Woodgrain finish. I use this stuff all the time for column wraps, door surrounds, around bay windows, toe kicks, you name it. It cost more, but you install it and you can forget about it.

As painting goes, I would never consider or advise anyone to apply paint on the exterior deck... But using Color Stain being solid or transparent, Yes, it's perfectly fine... When surface is properly prepped and stain properly applied, it can last up to 3 years or more and it will have to be redone after that.

Of Course various elements have to be taken into consideration i.e. weather, usage, trees, etc have lots to do with wear and tear, but properly maintained deck can last for a very long time.

My painter has a custom built home with cedar siding and and a wood deck. He applies new strain on the siding every 6-7 years and he does his deck a good cleaning every season and when the deck was built he did 2 coats of stain, restaining after first 3 years and after that new stain every 5 years and if you look at that deck you can walk around barefoot, the boards are nice and tight without splitting or splintering and it looks like it was done yesterday.

The maintenance on the wood deck is not that bad if stay on top of thing and it's very inexpensive average staining cost for an average size deck is about $300-500 dollars, over 3-5 years that's like a drop in the bucket.

I had a composite deck at an old house. Nice cause there is virtually no maintenance but its very cold when its chilly out and extremely hot when the sun hits it. We could literally feel the heat radiating into the house. Wood don't do that. It has a little maintenance but feels better and don't feel like your walking on cheap plastic. Everyone has their preference, I think it really depends on how much you use your deck and what you use it for.

Nice, looks great!

Composite decking been a trend for the last 15 or so years. In the last 15 years I did 2 wood decks, everything else is composite decking, new or refacing or people do pavers if the house is at lower elevation.

Most decks in the 70's, 80's, 90's early 2000 we build was out of pressure treated or cedar materials, some IPE but it's harder to get and to expensive on the East Coast.

When Composite start hitting the market it was a huge switch over, everyone wants composite and people with existing decks started to do refacing, taking the old boards up and doing composite decking and new railings.

Here is a few more refacing jobs we did

One more

I was considering composite railings but when the only options I could find were square or oval spindles I ended up doing PT with S&L spindles. I don't like how plain square spindles are and EVERYONE has them lol.

What a gorgeous new deck.

Beautiful, love the railing.

Wow! This looks amazing... really livens it up! Great work :)

Big improvement.

Looks great.