Last summer, I helped a carpenter buddy tear out a rotten deck. The joists were pressure-treated lumber, so I was surprised at how badly decayed they were. But my friend wasn’t. He sees it all the ...

Regardless of the material used on a deck’s surface, the vast majority of substructures today are built with wood. If not ...

If you’d like to take advantage of the area under your deck for additional living or storage space, plan ahead to incorporate an underdeck drainage system like Trex RainEscape to keep that area dry.

FastenMaster, a division of OMG, Inc., has introduced the FastenMaster ICON ScrewJoist, a hybrid deck joist system engineered to combine the strength and durability of steel with the lightness and ...