[Fred Mertz]

Plastic decking?

[SLB]

Plastic decking?

Lowe's and Home Depot have been selling it for several years. The price is at least 50% greater for plastic.

[HamiltonJay]

Yep, already on the market, fiberglass, plastic epoxies etc.... there are other pressure treatments that aren't CCA as well... Government flubbed this one as usual, but hardly a situation where there will be no options.

[microgood]

Plastic decking?

Usually it is the structural components of decks that are pressure treated more than the decking surface itself. These structural components will need replacing much more often.

[Wally Cleaver]

Plastic decking...but it wasn't too long ago I heard a report that is you put blue vinyl on your house it would kill you. Would not surprise me if the "plastic industrial complex" aka the beast is behind this conspiracy.

[farmfriend]

Plastic decking?

Trex Deck. We use it all the time.

[ChefKeith]

It already exists

[FrankR]

"Plastic decking?"

I have heard that the "cereal companies" stated the rumor about cholesterol in eggs, to sell more breakfast ceral; and I heard the maker of that new coolant started the rumors about freon and the ozone layer.

Now, do you 'spose those fake deck folks are behind this new "discovery"?

Most "cancer scares" over the past few years have later been disproven, and recanted...this one will be too. Unless you saw off about 3 feet of this lumber and eat it, I seriously doubt if there is more than an ice cube's chance in hell of getting cancer from it.

Every time I see these "scares", I think of George Carlin saying", "...scientist have discovered that saliva causes cancer...but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.".