A client would allegedly like some pretty tight radius curves with Trex or Timber-tech decking. The bends are to be with the decking horizontal not vertical like facia, allegedly.
Anyone have any tips on bending or talking client out of it? Or advice on how to phrase a question?
Thanks
Edited 9/5/2009 4:55 pm by treehse
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Was there a question?
shaping trex voids the warrenty..
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
They have a section on bending in their website?
no... not that I know of...
but their tech support says if you shape it you void the warrenty...
soaking it in hot water will make it pliable...
rip it down into narrows and glue it back up into the shape ya want...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
how come you haven't filled in yur profile???
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
If I knew how to do that I wouldn't be in const.
click om yur name
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
shaping trex voids the warrenty..
http://www.trex.com/litcenter/TrexInstallationGuide2009.pdf
Page 17
Yeah, that pretty much lays it out, in pretty good detail.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
didn'y say it couldn't be done...
didn't say that it isn't done...
only passed on what the tech at Trex said...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Who'd apparently never read the installation guide.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
I have a copy...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
didn'y say it couldn't be done...
didn't say that it isn't done...
only passed on what the tech at Trex said...
I never said you said it couldn't be, wasn't being done.
You did say it voids the warranty and wasn't in the instruction manual.
All I said was "page 17"
Edited 9/5/2009 11:54 pm ET by 9ENGEL
ahhhhh.... got it...
when I said.... no... not that I know of...
I have the updated pdf now...
thanks...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Man, I remember the days when I had something better than this to do on a Saturday night, on Labor day weekend no less.
baby sitting 4 dogs besides my own... belive I'm gonna cage one of them...
and 2 lizards and a bird...
not a dull moment here....
sleeping in isn't happening though..
got to fish every day...
geared up and ready for elk on the 17th......
did nicely in the Dove department this week..
just about finished a Ludlow and gonna start a Baldacci...
weather is pleasent... the aspen are changing...
no complaints
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
I wouldn't try to bend it. IMMERC has covered that. What about in the design if the radius is made on the cut ends?
Mark
There was a good how-to article in JLC maybe a couple of years ago. The authors had to bend it for a pool deck. I recall a lot of photos and fairly detailed description of the technique.
I could be wrong but I was at the building supply about a year ago and they had a display with a Trex bending tool. I think it was Trex. It was some kind of heating element IIRC.
And for one-off bending of short pieces you could probably borrow a non-metallic conduit bender from your sparky.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz