Composite decking
Board surfaces where a slab will not work — over slopes, spas and pool equipment.
Decking earns its place where paving cannot go: over a fall, across a slope, or on top of something that has to be reached again later. What you are really choosing is what happens to the board in fifteen years of San Diego sun, because the frame under it will outlive several of the cheaper options.
On photographyWe hold no photograph of a composite deck on one of this company’s own projects, so this category shows none. Everything here is described in words and colour families instead of illustrated with somebody else’s deck — and a board sample in your hand in full sun tells you more than any photograph would.
5 of 5 composite decking in this category
- CompositeColour families — we hold no photograph of this finish on one of our own projects
Capped composite board
A wood-flour and polymer core wrapped in a hard polymer shell. The cap is what resists fading and staining, so a capped board and an uncapped one age nothing alike despite looking identical on day one.
- PVC & mineralColour families — we hold no photograph of this finish on one of our own projects
Cellular PVC board
No wood content at all, so there is nothing in it for mould to eat. Lighter and generally cooler underfoot than composite, with a slightly more plastic look and a higher price.
- AluminiumColour families — we hold no photograph of this finish on one of our own projects
Aluminium decking
Interlocking extruded planks, usually with a drainage channel built into the joint so the space beneath stays dry. The obvious answer over a garage, a store or pool equipment.
- WoodColour families — we hold no photograph of this finish on one of our own projects
Tropical hardwood
Dense hardwood, genuinely beautiful and genuinely demanding. Left alone it silvers to grey; kept brown it wants oiling on a schedule. Ask where it came from before anything else.
- WoodColour families — we hold no photograph of this finish on one of our own projects
Thermally modified wood
Softwood cooked at high heat until the sugars that fungus and insects want are gone. Real wood, more stable than the board it started as, and it still weathers if you leave it to.
Nobody should pick composite decking off a screen
Colour on a monitor is a guess, and a surface you will walk on barefoot for fifteen years is not a guess worth making. We put real samples in front of you at the design consultation, in daylight, next to each other — including the ones we would talk you out of.