Customer Reviews for Veranda 15/16 in. x 5-1/4 in. x 16 ft. Brown Square Edge Capped Composite Decking Board

I have used this product on several jobs .All this talk left on previous reviews about how guys had to trim the ends on these boards is just ridiculous.Let me say I use composite and wood decking and any carpenter will tell you that ALL decking should be cut on both ends to the dimension required due to the fact wood is typically rough on the ends (sometimes slightly cracked or out of square).I just finished this Deck with staircase using Veranda brown square edge decking and rail kits and it came out nice! Highly recommend pre drilling the vinyl decking but then again I also pre drill wood as this makes it easier to install screws and makes the finish appearance much nicer.Take you're time to do it right ,after all its going to be there for 25 + years!

I am very happy with the composite decking so far.It was nice putting it down, although the ends were not factory 90*s which was OK with me because I was cutting them to fall on my double joists (for a Hot tub) anyway, and the walls are not exactly 90*s either. The deck measures 17ft. by 15 ft. and I'm about halfway done. Working alone. One thing I will say is that they are extremely heavy and I had to get them up to the second floor so that was awful. I kinda made a ramp out of the old decking material (Cedar from 1986) that has seen better days, and used a rope to pull them up along this ramp. I'm still sore from that. But it does look very nice. I'll try to take a few pictures of what's finished. Probably the video of pulling them up would have been better, very comical, I should have had some help! And don't judge because I alternated the wood grain!! We do like it. I would recommend to others even with the ends out of square it's just a small step to get them right and they measure an eighth inch or so long, so if you need exactly 16 footers you will be OK with these.. Also I almost forgot they are very slippery but with a large hot tub on this deck we won't be doing a whole lotta walking around on it.

Deck looks great and feels great on my bare feet too. The epoxy screws were a bit challenging so we pre-drilled holes and then screwed them in.

I like is look good

As a contractor using this for the first time I was disappointed in this product. It looks great finished, but was very hard to work with compared to wood. My project was a 16' deck, framed out so that we'd have 7/8" overhang. The boards I received ranged in length from 16' 7/8" to 16' 4+ inches. Half the boards curved badly upon taking the shrink wrap off after delivery. It adds time to the job to be constantly be re-spacing the boards to keep em straight. My most major complaint here is the uneven lengths and the uneven cuts, honestly do you guys have inspectors. On my 16" deck, one side should not have to have been cut. If those boards, being composite were indeed square I could have got em up, then just a little trim in the end, nice and clean. Nope had to square up every (insert any swear word here) board. 32 unnecessary cuts, DO YOU PEOPLE NOT HAVE INSPECTORS, OR DO YOU JUST NOT CARE ! Because the boards were wiggly I had to use hundreds of nails to set the space, about twice as many as I'd usually need. All this extra work added over 30 % labor to the job and I'm a contractor who doesn't go back, I just eat it. Okay now the good part, looks awesome, install came out perfect, (yes, I got it on straight and square) I like the pattern. It's hot under the sun, but wood is too. I'm going to give this product a two because it looks so nice finished, and I would recommend it if the boards all came in a standard length and were square on the ends which in my case they were not.

Just to hard to work with

Product is strong and easy to cut

The color of this brown material seems much darker than that shown in this website site image.

Boards needed to be straightened when installing - all said done it looks nice. Will update this review in a few years to see how they are holding up.

I spent a lot of money on what I thought was a nice deck. This past winter I was shoveling a path for my door to get down the deck (seems like a normal behavior). It completely scratched up the entire deck. Now it looks awful. I called and they said their warranty does not cover. Spend the extra money for something else.

Overall a great product, looks great and we are very happy with it. It was easy to install and work with, make sure to use a really nice quality blade when cutting it to keep the sharp edges. I would recommend doing your joists at 12" on center when using these as you can feel a little bit of the give when the joist are at 18" on center. Overall once it is properly attached, even with joists at 18" on center, it feels nice and firm in place. The material does get pretty warm when in direct sunlight for extended periods of time, I feel like more then our previous standard pressure treated lumber deck. That is just something to keep in mind, the sun doesn't directly hit our deck until about 2 PM, so we can be out there barefoot until 3 ish and then we just make sure to wear flip flops. A quick spray with the hose will cool it down pretty quickly again. Overall we are extremely happy with the look and feel of the product, we did the install and it was easy to work with and I would buy it again. I'm going to purchase more when we decide to resurface our smaller deck as well.

While this product looks nice once complete you have to make sure when lining up two sections that you measure the width of the boards. I had to increase the spacing on my second section because the majority of the boards in one batch were 5 5/16 or even 5 3/8 while a second batch were mainly 5 1/4. This also makes it hard when trying to frame out the deck and figure out your measurements. Also, none of the ends were squared off, and the length of boards were very inconsistent.

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Good quality.

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Good solid deck, out come was excellent,,,,, would buy it again

They delivered it promptly, The decking was easy to install. Looks great!

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Worked well so far

Ok, if you use the disappearing screws and something to cover the cut ends. However, most of the boards are warped with a horizontal bow. Really odd considering this is plastic wood.

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Great product

its made nice looks nice easy to put in only hangup it gets way to hot for your feet

Durable and looks great.

Good product for decking if you don't care about hidden attachments.

The product looks great on my newly installed deck

Slippery when wet. I used it for stairs for deck at my trailer in campground, hope I'm not disappointed. I like the color.

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