anyone paint plastic deck chairs?
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Has anyone installed Last-Deck?
Comments (21)Hello everyone. I just ran across this thread while doing a Google search looking to see if anyone other than us has had problems with "Last Deck" aluminum decks. I realize this is an old thread but hope others will find my comments about "Last Deck" decking. We live in Idaho, near Boise. We purchased the "Last Deck" decking material in 2012 and installed it the next summer in 2013. We bought it to replace the aging redwood planks on a 16' x 25' deck that I had previously built in 1990. The "Last Deck" installation process was straight forward and fairly simple and went down with no problems. However, the powder coating on the decking planks is absolutely terrible with extremely poor adhesion. I'm not for real sure it's even powder coated as claimed. I have a few other powder coated products that get much more abuse than our deck does and they show no problems at all. Our deck is attached to the N. side of the house foundation with lawn (grass and shrubs) on the N. and E. side of it with a large pavers patio on the W. side which situates the deck where no sand, gravel, or any course grit gets tracked onto it that could cause chips, scratches etc. Just the same, we have many, many, spots of what looked at first glance to be chips but when looked at closely, it's simply the powder coating that's basically just peeling up in several spots. A few of these are the size of a nickel and a couple are quarter size. The powder coating (which again, I almost think is just a paint and not a powder coating at all) also stains, even water from washing it will leave stains when the water dries in the sun. This summer we now have what looks like small scratches in several places but are actually small lines where the powder coating is simply coming off from poor to no adhesion. These chip looking spots started within the first summer of installation and started out as small and then continue to get larger. We have a table and 6 chairs on this deck as well and we put felt on the bottoms of the legs as soon as we finished the deck. My wife has called the Co. 3-4 different times describing the problems. We finally sent some photos of the problem areas as they requested. "Last Deck's" final response was that we tear off the decking material --20 foot and 5 foot-- lengths and send it back to them. They would then evaluate and possibly replace the material. This was not and is not an option as we live in Idaho and they are in Minn. The shipping alone makes this option prohibitive. Our only other option was to let then send us a bottle of touch-up paint. The deck looks worse by the month. Buying "Last Deck" decking has turned out to be a very expensive mistake. In hind site, the old redwood decking looked better than our new "Last Deck" decking does...! I would definitely NOT recommend "Last Deck" products to anyone unless you're very close to the Co. when replacement time comes. D. Walker...See MoreTrex decking disintegrating - anyone have experience with this?
Comments (18)Consumer Reports: For certain items, their advice is good (things like digital cameras, cordless phones, some appliances, etc.). The advice seems unbiased and reliability data is gathered from consumers. But for things like cars, I believe the editors have a strong bias against US manufacturers and the "scores" in their ratings include subjective categories like how the car feels and its styling---things that don't mean a hill of beans. Somehow, someway, an imported car (typically Japanese) will always "perform" the best in their tests, even if objective data like 1/4 mile times and braking distance is better on the domestic. The overall score ends up lagging if the GM product is "long in the tooth" or has "shiney plastic on the interior trim" or other nonsense. Honda somehow does everything perfectly as far as CR is concerned. It cracks me up to read their ratings of wine and ice cream---things that they have no business rating since it's all a matter of personal taste. Then for something like a mattress---part of it is comfort but part is price and how well it's made---they seem to have no opinion at all. Decking? Well, I think they pretty much admit that they don't know it all. I evaluated a bunch of them for a deck and screened porch I'm having built. For a variety of reasons, I wanted composite on the deck portion instead of wood (wood in the porch). In the end, I settled on Fiberon Professional Series with the slots to accommodate hidden fasteners. The contractor I hired seems most comfortable with this particular material as he has specified it many times before and seems to have satisfied customers. I liked the darker brown color enough to go with it. I tested it against the Fiberon "Tropics" which looks nicer to me, but I didn't like how easliy "Tropics" scratched. Pro Series took harder keying before showing gauges. Also, he gave me a better price on Pro Series. One material I liked is Pro Cell which I guess now is called Azek Deck. It's lighter weight and I think all plastic with no wood fill. The colors were a little light in shade---like pastel---but the material was nice looking, like painted wood. Evergrain was nice, but not reversible. I heard good things about Geo Deck, but didn't like the look as much as the Fiberon, and it didn't feel as substantial. I might regret not picking the Azek Deck because over the long haul, it probably ages better than the Fiberon, but I do think the Fiberon is a good product in its own right. "Veranda" is made by Fiberon and appears to be the same product but with the HD label on it. Fiberon is 2nd to Trex in Sales, but has not had nearly as many issues reported as Trex has....See MorePlastic Adirondack Chairs - Who has 'em
Comments (18)Snookups, we got them all off of eBay from the same seller, a link to her eBay store is below. They are drop-shipped from the factory. The first order we placed during the winter got here in a week. The two we placed in spring took about 2 weeks (she said the factory gets pretty busy with orders in the spring). The material for the chairs is made of recycled soda bottles and milk jugs, so it's a nice green alternative :-) The hardware is all stainless steel too. Gorilla X, I can certainly understand the price issue. One of the problems we have here are extreme wind conditions with some regularity, even our wrought iron patio set gets displaced sometimes! We had to rule out lighter stuff because of that. Here is a link that might be useful: eBay polywood...See Moreplastic white chairs
Comments (6)I have used them on chairs and a small table with great results. I wish the local stores carried all of the colors that are offered online. I did write the Krylon people. They are not offering the brush on YET. But plans are in the works! I can not wait. I stenciled a recycling logo on my trash can but it bled through.Needs to be neatened up. I will share my idea, I always wondered why trash cans were so ugly that people had to build fences to hide them. Why not make them pretty?? I always wanted to paint my cans to look like flower pots. ( I don't have room for a fence) Or just paint them to look like the siding on my house to camouflage them. I sent this on to Rubbermaid, but no reply. If any of you can patent this, please remember me in your will... hee hee Lori...See Moremaddiemom6
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