Hi all, anyone ever attempt to inlay a design of composite decking into a composite deck? The boss has a brainstorm about trying this on a clients deck we are building. We are using the weatherbest product and will be screwing it down with trapeze screws. I’m intrigued by the concept and have some thoughts on how to proceed. I would like to tap into the great brain trust here and see if and how anyone has done this before. thanks guys!
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Greetings corncrib, Welcome to Breaktime.
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someone's attention that can help you with advice.
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Thanks Rez, I'm guessing by the lack of feedback to my post that there hasn't been to many instances of someone trying to create an inlay type of design utilizing composite decking materials. Anybody ever hear of this? thanks, oldcorncrib
Sounds like the kind of thing worth pioneering. View Image
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Just my opinion, but somehow "inlay" and "decks" go together like "shoepolish" and "flip flops" (aren't cha glad I didn't say "t*rds"?") Where I'm from (North Cal), most decks are designed to unify the house with the outdoors with minimal fanfare, so I would be inclined to keep it simple. The scale and layout of the decking would usually preclude most designs I could imagine. That said, I could see putting a darker or lighter stripe on the edge of a step, or any level change where there was no railing. You could easily rout a stripe down the length of a board and glue in a strip, but I would probably just rip a whole piece to the width I wanted and install it as an independent course.
An inlay design would be great to look at but I would be more conserned about weakening the composit material by routing it out to inlay a different material or color.
Pattern changes require lots of cross blocking in the framing if you just want to change the direction or color of the same thickness product.
There are 16" stone products available that can be placed on your joists to break up the pattern and add to the design.
Be sure and post pictures of your job,
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob
I'd like to know more about what you have in mind.
I have used a lot of simple inlay strips in cabinets I've built. And a couple of years back, we used MDF for the floor of a 3rd floor renovation -- with 1/4" strips of maple inlays.
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