Installing Trex Transcend Composite Decking – Part 1

is Tuesday June 11th and this morning Chris is returning to continue building the deck well look at this you're dressed for the heat today so they did good this time same lot that the golden hue stuff was from so and I there were three pieces yeah well it's supposed to be that's exactly what it's supposed to be yeah we don't have to mix and match and try to make it no that's how to make it flow much easier than yeah me having an alternate carefully without any sort of a pattern now you can clearly see the difference in the colors I was staging in a shaded area so I had to make sure that I had the ends of them in the sunlight so when the rep looked at it he could see yeah when you bring it out of the truck it's clearly nice and gold when it comes here in the shade it looks different yeah beautiful morning put us a hot and humid day so today you're gonna lay down the the main boards yep these main runs laid down right now I'm putting in the starter cleats for the hidden fastener system these are designed to catch the one grooved edge since the perimeter framing is a grooved material the other ones are a tee can't go into this material here I want to make sure I get it in a spot so as expansion occurs of the board it doesn't slip out again so I got to begin just a little bit good quarter isn't it get my spacing even this way if I start with good even spacing and then as I install my hidden fastener system everything's just gonna parallel all the way through and I won't have to sit here and measure and adjust with every board I lay down I'll always check it of course to make sure that things are being relatively consistent but starting out right away tassels on the road individually-wrapped huh just keep the screws in the bag without tearing it open so they don't spill all over the place the xm8 I need to grab when I just poke it through and tear it out Dec board member 1 harvest gold separator [Applause] these little fellers are shaped like a tea so that they hold both edges of the tracks the groove tracks with a quarter inch space in the middle these handy-dandy little guys that the crews are preset into they'd to snap off you could call it a turbo clip because it speeds up the process so I'm hidden fastener systems you have to take an individual fastener insert the screw into the fastener and then screw it down this simplifies that entire process greatly much to the favor of deck install dollars [Music] [Applause] that's a perfect spacer the first trek deck board is now installed now you got a place to walk you got a square up both ends of your cut because from the factory these cuts aren't aren't necessarily square this would be my starter for my next run after this finisher [Music] finishing up the fifth deck board [Music] it's just a little bit cooler on the lighter color you can feel the noise yep you sure can you can bake your potatoes out there my first walk on this section of the deck Wow dunk your head in the Dungeness River yeah it's not as cold as I thought it was gonna be oh really yeah well plenty cool enough to make my brain to starting board number six after a lunch break and a cooling off and then Dungeness river I couldn't even eat all my sandwich though it was just too hot had I finished that thing at it I'd have been ready for a nap yeah love that little handy holder thing yeah it's great today they don't so screw themselves in that would be really nice if I just put it there and did the word yeah well maybe then I could do the job yeah put me out of a job I can like really run and lay this stuff superfast but if you do that in the sunlight you find you start chasing that gap and you get these weird variations in the winter it doesn't matter II go as fast as you want it's not gonna expand you know without some direct sunlight it will heat it up a little bit but not like this Summer Sun it looks like I did my math well and I don't have to cut that one that was my intention but I thought I for sure have to trim it a little bit but it's gonna fit here perfect Chris is gonna run one more board up to the porch and call it a day it's just getting too hot to continue sit and then apply some of those starter clips considering I got a push that thing through four and a half feet it might be difficult might be I don't know I might I might experiment and try it maybe didn't leave it works just leave it here for today wait when it's cooler just a fat my brains working on it so okay you got it I'm gonna try something out here I gotta see it's like a puzzle you know yeah hard to walk away from the puzzle I think maybe like I have to space that if I got to put screws in there it's not that it's a big deal but it's just kind of I'd like to avoid it so I can have the consistent appearance through this field of the deck Wow nice yummy put a little leverage on the backend when you say so no it's alright yeah that I think was my tightest spot now that I've got this line straight it should slide right in there pretty easy look at that's gonna be very successful that's what I was looking for there that is slick well the first time that was a success that's what I was hoping would happen that's a nice even reveal there's no screws yeah good yeah I like it when a plan works out was that Hannibal from the a-team I love it when a plan comes together yeah I didn't even have to do any creative editing here no first time last cut for the day [Applause] just like that I love it when math works alright that's enough for one day that is more than half the deck yeah I didn't expect to get that far all right like I said I I'm a fan of have these turbo clip fasteners having everything you know 20 pieces or whatever all in one strip you can hold on to instead of handling like a handful of this yeah with an individual screw they have to insert it into each fastener that really really speeds up the process really pleased with the progress and the beauty of this deck I'm really glad that we return the discolor decking because this all gold color makes it really look sharp

Channel: Randall Wingett

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Keywords: Trex Transcend Decking, Installing Trex Decking, How to Install Trex Composite Decking, Front Entrance Deck

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Length: 14min 52sec (892 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 01 2019