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Originally Posted by 1ntCobra
My deck boards are 100% recycled plastic milk jugs (no wood content at all). The deck is 4 years old and never requires sealing.  |
I had a single-step landing that was constructed of plastic 1x6 inch boards. You could even see flecks of recycled plastic in the sawn core. Ick.
It worked fairly well for a number of years even holding its color which wasn't great. It was a strange light brown. The main flaw with it is that it was unbelievably slippery in the winter.
So I finally used part of it to create a rot-proof containing border for a landing made of driveway pavers. We painted it a more desirable dark brown to match trim. It looks very nice. The first really hot day, it expanded away from my nicely mortered solid bricks about 3/8 inch on each end. Arrghhh.
Should have known. While I used plastic cold lines, I did my hot supply plumbing with copper lines just because of the expansion characteristics of plastic.