Profitable Plastics

I used it on the kitchen patio - looks good and zero maintenance in years to come.

No pitch bleeding out or any of that.

No one ever said, ""There's a great future in plastics" in The Graduate.

That's a fabrication and a misquote.

His admonition was a single word, "plastics".

Now, someday plastic flooring will be common place. It will take a combination of price increases of wood products and more "woodlike" properties of plastics.

I can't imagine walking of a wet deck made of plastics. Too slippery.

A plastic patio deck is like a fake turkey hot-dog. It is a fake, it looks fake, it tastes fake, and everybody knows it's fake.

Ultra low maintenance? I don't know about that. The burned spots on my neighbors fake deck (where coals dropped from the 'que) are pretty evident. They cannot be sanded or stained out, and he is too lazy to replace the boards... that is, after all, why he used plastic in the first place, believing it is ultra low maintenance.

To each his own - the shapes and surface texture are quite fine with me.

Not interested in teak or redwood - too expensive and I never have liked pine - too messy and looks ugly after a few years.

Actually, I don't think anyone is trying to fool anybody that it is wood.

To each his own is correct, and I should have given you a little more.

I have lived nearly my entire life in the American mountain states of Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming. Timber and wood products are abundant and moderately priced (reasonable, anyway). So, I have a bias towards real wood that will be difficult to sway.

It seems the manufacturers feel that a wood appearance is beneficial. From this site:

"The look of a wood deck with smooth, soft, splinterless comfort", and "A deep, lush wood grain pattern in an eco-friendly material."

Similar here - born in Washington and grew up in Oregon. From the front windows of the house we had a great view of the snow caps of the Cascades. Loved being in the woods exploring. For a couple of summers during college I worked on skidding crews bringing out the monster ponderosa pines - beautiful trees.

However, most of the world does not have access to reasonable priced wood. My roof support beams are all steel profile - cost being one reason.

The texture and looks of the finish - all people really have to compare with is wood.

try a tropical hardwood like jatopa, cumaru, ipe, tiger wood they also are expensive but last over twenty five years.CEW