Ok… you guys tell me. I’ve never used it, simply because I am not convinced the products are ready and my father in law is an engineer who has worked in the plastics industry. He’s confirmed many of my suspicions, but lets hear from you guys.
Good bad and the ugly. Have you used composite for decks and fences, have you gone back after 3 years to see how it ages? Failures? Successes?
Just to stir things up… here’s a couple of photos of a composite plant here in Canada… I was able to zoom in and shoot these from the road. This is their demonstration display out front of the plant.
The interesting part-they used steel fencing to close in their yard. Are they trying to tell us something when they don’t even use their own products at their plant?
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I love these... Related topic, but regarding a page I have on my website begging for success stories about composite decking. I just want to know if there are good products... so I can start using them too!
Brad T. writes under the heading of Biased Much?
composite fenceing offers little or no security... steel does...
proud member of the FOR/FOS club...
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I don't buy it IM, they'd have to drive across the lawn to break in that way, besides, composite decking is dense and hard to cut. I think it was a matter of durability. An 8' composite fence would sag something horrible-unless they used steel supports to carry it.
Then again... if someone wanted in they could use a screw gun and remove the screws fastening the siding to the metal fence too... might be easier.
The point is... why would they leave that eyesore up as an example of their wonderful product?
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