My wife loves flowers. She may be a little out of control with the April showers bring May flowers thing. But, in her defense her birthday is in May. So I guess some flexibility should be put forth on my part when she decides to decorate the entire house in flowers for May. I mean it, inside and out.
She is even more excited because we just put a new Trex Deck on the back of our home giving her yet another thing to decorate on our home. But you know what they say – happy wife, happy life. I am just making jokes, it really does make me happy to see her do something she loves to do.
I should give thanks to our Trex Deck Pro that installed our deck. He suggested to her to design some flower pots into the rails and deck so it would be easy for her to plant and maintain. It didn’t even really change the budget we had either, which was a huge plus. She has even stated to me that she is going to do seasonal plants and flowers all year long.
Ok, I will admit she worked really hard for a long time, and now that the flowers are blooming the deck looks amazing. Plus the Trex Deck can handle any water seepage or potting soil spills no problem, so maintenance will never be an issue. So, thank you Trex Decks for making my wife happy and giving me an easy going spring.
Then it hit me, like a lightning bolt (no pun intended). I should just put a roof over part of my deck, that way when it rains I can still enjoy being outside! Well, my first question was if my Trex composite decking would be strong enough to hold a roof. My Trex Pro assured me that it would hold a roof and then some. So the next step for me was to choose a design. There were a lot more styles than I thought there would be, so I picked one that would give me the most options as far as amenities I could add under the roof.
For over twenty years, Trex composite decking has been made from 95% recycled wood and plastic. Trex saves 400 million pounds of plastic and wood from landfills each year, making it one of the largest plastic recyclers in the US. Trex never has to cut down a tree for use in its decking material. The wood comes from reclaimed wood and recycled sawdust. This recycled wood is combined with recycled plastic from a variety of sources: the overwrap on paper towels, dry cleaner bags, sandwich bags, newspaper sleeves, and grocery and shopping bags. The average 500-square foot composite Trex deck contains 140,000 recycled plastic bags!
Now, that being said I am not looking to build the world’s largest deck off my basement door. I think the thought or just one monstrous space is a bit too much. So I went back and talked to my contractor who built my first TREX deck, and he recommended we put another level on top of the current deck. As soon as he mentioned it bells starting ringing inside my head. I can use the bottom level strictly for grilling and hot tubing, and the top level for sun and fun!