What is a good choice of wood or composite decking for covering my front porch? This is a covered porch; however the steps will not be covered. Since I will be laying the product over ¾ plywood on the porch, I would like a tongue and groove product to keep the dirt and debris from collecting between the boards. A couple options I am considering are 1×4 finger jointed cvg, which I will paint or 1 x 4 mahogany. Will these products stay tight or will expansion and contraction cause excessive gaps. I also have left over rift and quartered white oak that I used indoors, would that make a good option? Please suggest any other good options. I live in the Pacific NW.
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Thank you, jerry h
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Whoa!
anything you put down over a plywood subfloor for an exterior deck will be rotting out in a few years so forget that
CVG Fir is traditional for covered porches
run it perp to the house for drainage away and seal all edges before putting it down - on the joists!
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I agree with you on the adding something over plywood, not a good idea.
I have a porch floor that needs replaceing back in Iowa and was going to do it with VG fir but then when I read this thread 73915.1 it made ne wonder, what do you think went wrong with this guys floor?
Is the CVG fir as good as it used to be?
Doug
I like Tendura for covered porches.
Its a composite T & G product that looks good installed.
I have it on my own front porch- 4 years and absolutely no sign of rot, and the joints are still tight.
getting harder to fiond real vertical grain. then I have to figure on culling 15% out. That makes Ipe` very competitive
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ipe is a great product although you are inviting trouble sandwiching any two materials in a potentially wet area with no drainage.