The layout of your deck sleepers will depend on the layout of your decking. If you want a standard decking design — all the deck boards running one direction — all you need are rows of parallel ...

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In early 2020, my family and I hired pros to tear off the stone steps, wrapped with a waist-height rock wall, at the back of our house. The steps were nearly 100 years old, and the entire fixture was ...

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What are the guidelines for installing a deck off my house? More so than the "what" are the guidelines of installing a deck, is understanding that in New York City, the Department of Buildings (DOB) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our extensive tests expose aluminum, composite, and wood decking to extreme conditions, to see which ones hold up for the long ...

Pretty much any deck will look great when it’s brand new, but a deck built with subpar materials will start showing its age in a year or two. Fast-forward a decade, and a wooden deck that was ...