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Menards Composite Grade Board?

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K-Mo

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Menards sells a composite grade board for pole buildings.
Does anyone have first hand experience with Menards/Midwest Manufacturing/Ultradeck Composite Grade Board and Centermatch? The only reviews I find are on the deck material and the reviews are consistently not good.
Does it hold up? Does water enter the inside cells, freeze and fracture the material?
General comments?
 
The intent of that specific material is to provide a backing for vertical steel siding (a ledger at the bottom of the steel). Other components attach the center and top. The decking boards are also hollow. Steel fastening systems are used.
The recycled wood and polyethylene composite has two issues with desirability in my opinion. The first is that Polyethylene cant be successfully painted. What color it is will change as it fades, and it will fade at different rates based on UV exposure. Second is life expectancy. A 10 year guarantee isn't much. Polyethylene is not a premium "in the sun" material, and the product has (what they call) a protective finish. Third is its flammability. The material is pretty much a hydrocarbon in a cellulose matrix. Pretty much melt and burn. (opinion) I do not know the fire rating of the material. Jim
 
Friends of mine put the plastic deck boards on their deck and then had to put a roof over it because it got so hot in the sun you had to wear shoes any time you were on the deck.
Dave
 
They weren't from Menards, but ended up with some misc. boards several years ago at auction. 2x4's, 2x6's and a 1x6, but just a few of each. My mind went racing at the possibilities of wood that could get wet, wouldn't rot, wouldn't warp, etc. Had thought about putting them down on my old lowboy trailer. Then I read an article about this type of lumber. It said how these boards cannot take the bearing loads of conventional lumber as they have to "grain structure" - they are simply compressed together using heat and pressure.

From my limited experience, they will hold a screw amazingly well, but don't expect the same characteristics as solid wood.
 
Besides all the above it's expensive, at least the deck boards the big box stores sell is. I also thought wow how cool till I saw the price they were charging per board.
 
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