Composite decking - options?

[Little Bob]

Zippee said:

We ended up using future dek from deckplus.
Looked at pretty much every sample from every manufacturer, some looked great quality but were way too expensive, others looked good but felt cheap. Some of the expensive boards just looked plasticy.
About 26m2 in total

Looks good - are you happy with it?

[Zippee]

Little Bob said:

Zippee said:

We ended up using future dek from deckplus.
Looked at pretty much every sample from every manufacturer, some looked great quality but were way too expensive, others looked good but felt cheap. Some of the expensive boards just looked plasticy.
About 26m2 in total

Looks good - are you happy with it?

95% yes, just a couple of finishing bits but the actual deck is fine.
Being essentially plastic coated it holds water on the surface a lot longer than wood - obvious I know but still worth noting.
The fixings supplied though - torx screws are made of chocolate and even with proper pilot holes it was a PITA.

[Steve Campbell]

Thread resurrection….anyone had Trex down a while and recommends ? Which product ? We have a Trex fitter coming back end of next week to review and quote to strip out old decking and replace.

It’s 26m2 ground level and needs to support a hot tub. Any thoughts on what I will be looking at for costs ? South Bucks. (Will revert when I know).

[Hoonigan]

Not TREX, but we went with Envirobuild frontier, the solid stuff.

I installed it all myself and it went down pretty well and I’m really pleased with the results.
One year in (took me a year to install start to finish, so some bits are two years old) and it still looks as good as it did on day one.

https://www.envirobuild.com/collections/composite-...

[Steve Campbell]

Edited to update :
Quote 1 : ~£7000 for Enhance Trex. Not VAT registered so all in price.
Quote 2 : ~£7500 + VAT.

Price includes full strip out, dig down & a 2.2m square concrete slab for hottub.

Edited by Steve Campbell on Monday 30th October 11:48