In early 2020, my family and I hired pros to tear off the stone steps, wrapped with a waist-height rock wall, at the back of our house. The steps were nearly 100 years old, and the entire fixture was ...

Start-up problems in Virginia for a new line of composite decking and equipment failures at a manufacturing plant in Nevada cost Trex Co. Inc. about $10 million in the first quarter. Production of the ...

Composite decking has a lot to offer over traditional wood options. Easy maintenance, for one. Composite decking—an amalgam of ground-up wood and plastic formed into planks—doesn’t ever need to be ...

In one region, at least, plastic decking now leads pressure-treated wood. Half of the decking in the northeastern United States is now made of synthetic materials such as plastic composites, according ...