The Simple Trick That Adds Decades to a Fence Post’s Life
Fence posts fail from the ground up, almost always in the same place: within the first six inches below the...
Year: 2026
Why Wood Fences Actually Fail (And How to Build One That Doesn’t)
If you search for information on building a wood fence, you'll find no shortage of advice — and most of...
Real Copper Post Caps vs. Cheap Fakes
It's impossible to make a genuine copper-clad post cap for $20 and if you've bought one at that price and...
How to Build Curved Cedar Decks — Lessons from a North Kawartha Project
This deck, built by Gary Douglas near North Kawartha (close to Peterborough, Ontario), is one of the better examples we've...
Sometimes Composite Decking doesn’t live up to expectations. Composite Failures are more common than you expect.
Composite failures tends to repeat itself every few years: new product generations launch, and the same failure modes resurface —...
An Article on How to Design Decks in Deck Specialist Magazine!
Part 1 as it appears in Deck Specialist, May/June 2026. Click the spread to read the full article in the...