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TimberTech

on my deck and docks (which goes under saltwater with a good nor'easter. Trex would never survive. It depends on your environment. The Atlantic dishes out the harshest punishment.

Dumped Trex and installed ipe 4 years ago; requiries oiling every other year, but it's a day to pressure wash and 1/2 a day to roll on the ipe oil. About 2,800 sf of 5/4 decking

Will definitely outlast me, and my children.

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on my deck and docks (which goes under saltwater with a good nor'easter. Trex would never survive.

and exactly why would you think that. Trex has done fine for me under water in nor'easters for a couple of decades?

The Trex on my parents' dock is 20 years old and survived being underwater from 4 hurricanes and 130mph winds from Hurricane Charlie. Granted, it wasn't moving storm surge. The Trex on our deck at our house on the northern part of Lake Huron is doing fine after 8 years.

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Originally posted by aileron:
Dumped Trex and installed ipe 4 years ago; requiries oiling every other year, but it's a day to pressure wash and 1/2 a day to roll on the ipe oil. About 2,800 sf of 5/4 decking

Will definitely outlast me, and my children.

Ipe is very expensive but a very good wood for a deck. Some marinas here in South Florida use it for their docks...…..just spray the oil on with a pump up spray bottle. Here they don't do anything to it, don't pressure clean it, don't oil it and some are 15-20 years old and look fine.