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Fighting Fastener Corrosion

by Jefferson Kolle
What’ll you have with that wood preservative: Hot-dip galvanized, polymer coated, or stainless steel?

DECK LEDGER: Creating Upselling Opportunities

by Kim and Linda Katwijk
Creating upselling opportunities

If You Heat It, It Will Bend

In this YouTube video, PDB contributing editor Kim Katwijk shows how to heat and bend plastic decking.

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Is it spring yet?

The spring peepers are out where I live, and like every year when I first hear them, I put John Foge ... more