Composite decking has been evolving for nearly 30 years. If you're considering it for your deck project, here's an overview ...

The two main types of deck boards you can buy are composite, which costs between $15 and $38 per square foot, and wood, which averages between $10 and $25 per square foot.

Composite decking has a lot to offer over traditional wood options. Easy maintenance, for one. Composite decking—an amalgam of ground-up wood and plastic formed into planks—doesn’t ever need ...

Composite decking is a great choice vs. wood for a variety of reasons. People choose wood plastic composite (WPC) or even plastic lumber (PL) over wood because they want the finished project to ...

Q: Our deck was installed in 2007 with EverGrain composite. (We chose the redwood color.) One of the planks is deteriorating. Replacing the whole plank is one option, but we’d have to take apart ...

Apart from a few types of cement, carbon-negative composites are scarce, according to David Heldebrant, an organic chemist who is one of the project’s principal investigators. The composite decking ...

If the 3.55 billion feet of decking sold in the U.S. every year were replaced with the researchers’ CO 2-negative composite decking, he says, 250,000 tons of CO 2 could be sequestered annually ...