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Three-Level Western Red Cedar wood deck makes effective use of a sheltered corner of a house in the Lincoln Near South area.
Homeowners face a wide range of choices when planning a wooden deck. Some wood products are extremely costly – particularly tropical hardwoods. Others, while inexpensive, may require more maintenance than most homeowners prefer.
The new pressure-treated pine results in more attractive decks that are brown rather than green. The trade off is that pine treated with the new, safer processes requires special corrosion-resistant fasteners.
Pine is not naturally a decay-resistant wood. Exposed to the elements, pine will decay to uselessness in about two years. To make is more resistant, the surface of a pine board is infused with a chemical solution containing copper. The former standard treatment containing copper and arsenic (Chromium Copper Arsenate or CCA) is no longer used. The trade-off however is that pine boards treated with the new technology — Alkaline Copper Quaternary or (ACQ), Copper Boron Azole Type A (CBA-A) or Copper Azole Type B (CA-B) — contain so much more copper that they corrode steel nails and screws very quickly. Special coated fasteners must be used these days to build treated pine decks. But one nice feature of the new treated "greenboard" is that it is no longer green. The new boards are usually a more attractive "brownish" color.
Red cedar is stable, decay resistant wood very suitable for decks and porches. Both Eastern and Western Red Cedars weather well, and can be expected to last up to 15 years with proper care if unsealed, and for a lifetime if sealed and maintained.
In Nebraska, however, we have more choices because of our locally harvested rot-resistant deck woods. The most common is Eastern Red Cedar ("ERC") (Juniperus virginiana), which is, interestingly enough, a juniper, and also a member of the Cypress family. (Obviously the Cypress has a large family.) It has all of the same insect and decay-resistant properties of WRC and looks and even smells like WRC. Eastern Red Cedar grows throughout the Eastern United States and most of the Midwest. In fact, it enjoys the widest geographic distribution of any American conifer. As a consequence it has so many known common names that we will not even bother to list them here. Nearly every region of the country has its own pet name for the Eastern Red Cedar.
Cypress decking and railing. Cypress is probably the most rot-resistant native wood for decks, but it is not being managed well and is fast disappearing.
North American Cypress (Taxodium distichum), can be found in wet, swampy areas along the East Coast from Delaware south to Florida and west along the Gulf Coast and up the Mississippi River Valley. It grows best in the swampy areas of Florida and the lower Mississippi river where it can reach heights of up to 145 feet. Common names for cypress include: Bald Cypress, Swamp Cypress, Southern Cypress, Red Cypress, Yellow Cypress, White Cypress, Tidewater Cypress, Gulf Cypress, Black Cypress, and Cow Cypress.
Tamarack is becoming a more important deck wood in places where Western Red Cedar is getting expensive. It is used mostly in the Northeast where it is abundant.
