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Decking: serious alternatives.(Home: your backyard)
Today's houses use an abundance of synthetic materials: vinyl siding and windows, fiberglass shingles, resin molding, and more. However, one place where solid wood still rules is backyard decking. Synthetic planks--plastics or composites of plastic and wood fiber--are a distant second. But our tests clearly show that it's time to take synthetic decking seriously.
Synthetic deck materials have a number of advantages over solid wood:
They're low-maintenance. In our tests--exposing sections of real wood and 16 synthetic materials to the elements for more than a year--the synthetics accumulated less dirt than wood and were usually easier to clean. That ...
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