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Originally Posted by lawn psycho
We had the Azek at our last house. I see someone mentioned the heat issue. If it gets direct sunlight it does get hot on the feet.
I found that mold would build up on the deck as the water gets trapped between the boards and the joists. Drove me nuts keeping it clean.
If I were to do decking again I would go with standard PT wood and just use composite for the handrails (no splinters, etc). Since the structural pieces will be pressure treated (posts and joists) I found no big improvement of composite over regular PT. Both still required maintenance.
Go 12 or 14 inchs on center to avoid the sagging boards as well.
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The Azek does not get as hot on the feet as some of the others. It also does not get the mold because it does not have wood in it as some of the others do. I also went nuts trying to keep the mold off it. I would never use PT again. The worst thing about that to me is after a few years it gets very splintery and who wants to get splinters in their feet??
That is why I am saying be very careful and do your research.