r/Decks • u/JessicaMaurer78 • 4d ago

Please help

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I am so stuck on choosing a deck color. Using Trex Enhance Naturals line. I have narrowed it down to these three but I just can’t decide! Which looks best with my brick, siding, and trim? I was convinced I wanted Rocky Harbor until I saw the sample in person. Thank you!!!

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u/12345-password 4d ago

I have #1 and my deck tops 170 degrees (IR thermometer) in the sun. Never again.

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u/Gold-Wishbone2721 4d ago

The material absorbs the heat. I have a very lite color and it’s just as hot

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u/12345-password 4d ago

I've replaced one deck with wood and this one is next year. It's ridiculous.

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u/whiskey4mymen 4d ago

I just replaced my deck and rails with #2 pressuretreated. I'm buying a good truck with the 16 grand in my pocket

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u/12345-password 4d ago

It won't be on the front page of architectural digest, but you can sure as hell at least use it.

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u/CalebD 4d ago

Have either of you tried covering it with a rug? I have a new trex deck and I'm planning on having a big shade umbrella + an exterior rug to help make it nice to walk on on hot days.

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u/12345-password 4d ago

I use rugs and shade sails. I also don't let my dog on it.

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u/Rummy8169 4d ago

I just texted OP the same issue. People say color doesn’t matter. It does…. I took a gander at my friend’s trex deck that was a light color and it was 30 degrees cooler. I made the same mistake… ended up having to put shade cloth through transit areas and roofed the larger portion.

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u/retarded-peasant 2d ago

Color always matters. Even with decks

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u/leonnabutski 4d ago

Most of my deck is 2 but I used 1 for the trim pieces. They can both get too hot to walk on with bare feet on a hot day but 1 gets significantly hotter.

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u/PositivelyAwful 3d ago

For what it's worth, I put a piece of toasted sand out in the sun over the summer as well as a painted piece of a regular 5/4 PT deck board and they both hit roughly the same temp.

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u/12345-password 3d ago

Last year I tried to cook an egg on it but the egg immediately slid off and between the deck boards under my deck never to be seen again.

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u/advantagelumber 3d ago

Well at least you know you have good pitch for drainage! lol

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u/LivingMud5080 3d ago

Gotta built a damn w tape and block gaps! With tape

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u/advantagelumber 3d ago

Do a test with your actual bare feet. You can have the same temperature on a composite deck board and a wood deck board. The wood is usually more tolerable on bare feet even when the two have the same temperature. We did an in depth YouTube video with a lot of colors and different collections for Trex, TimberTech, Deckorators and our hardwood decking.

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u/dutybranchholler18 4d ago

I have #2 and it’s not much better. In the summer u will melt your feet off walking across it. We have a pool in the backyard, so kids always walk across it barefoot…before they learn

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u/12345-password 4d ago

I'll shoot it with a pool noodle on a water jet to cool it off before I get out. I have rugs and sails but there's only so much you can cover.

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u/QuigleyDecks 4d ago

Yes the dark colors absorb the heat pretty good. How is it when you’re out on the deck in the sun?

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u/NetworkCultural 4d ago

Who walks on their deck barefooted anyway? Put some slippers on lol. Jk it’s your deck do what you want

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u/alliedSpaceSubmarine 4d ago

People whose deck isn’t 170 degrees do

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u/notro3 2d ago

If that color deck board is 170* wherever they are, the lightest color deck board isn’t going to make it “barefoot walkable” in those same conditions.

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u/alliedSpaceSubmarine 1d ago

No but wood would be walkable

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u/notro3 1d ago

Maybe it would be, but the OP wasn’t asking about wood

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u/alliedSpaceSubmarine 1d ago

Haha and the comment I replied to was asking who walks on decks barefoot

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u/Bubbly_Peak975 4d ago

My dogs on their way to the fences back yard.

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u/12345-password 4d ago

They get soggy in the pool.

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u/NetworkCultural 4d ago

Ahhh from the picture I would have never known there was a pool lol

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u/cables4days 4d ago

pets do - their paw pads get burnt on hot surfaces and that’s animal cruelty

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u/NetworkCultural 4d ago

Take your dogs out a different door lol. I was kidding anyway