Anyone Out There Had Problems With Eon Decking?

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I have been installing decks for a long time. I haven't done a lot of composite decks, I don't care for them myself, I did offer them to my customers however. I just recently looked at a deck, the customer was looking to install composite decking material. So I went to my supplier and was told Eon in out of business, boardwalk is discontinued, as well as a few others. And the companies that are still around are looking into new materials for there composite decking. The biggest problem I was told was mold growth.

To take care of this mold growth you had to wash the deck with a bleach and water mixture, sometimes 2 - 3 times a year, doesn't sound like the low maintenance to me. now hearing about cracking, uneven fading, and other problems I will no longer offer this to any customer. I am also glad I did not push any of these products on my customers, simply said I didn't want them to be Ginny Pigs.

deck king

I used the product once, to build a display for a supplier, What I Didn't like was how slippery it was when it got dusty (like walking on ice).
I did notice a tendancy to chip while cutting.
All composites will have a high static rating (because of the plastic) and will stain if any petroleum based substance is put on it ( olive oil, kool aid, wine, cooking grease) all of the are high protein (high proteins = petroleum base)

This knowledge is a great way to sell against any composite or vinyl product!

RobertCDF

I love it when people say stuff and they dont know what they are talking about... I really wish that most of the people on this forum were my competitors. Most of you have no clue about the GOOD products out there and I could sell Correct Deck CX against you all day long. Using a blanket statement when you dont know what your talking about will eventually put you out of business.

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deck king

I think you would be better off saying that most of out there, are relating a couple of experiences and not relating statistical information.
I do beleive you are giving an emotional response to this subject.
my post is proven scientific data ( except the slippery baords and chipping)
It is a fact that High proteins have a petroleum based. ( not the gasoline type but the gelatin type)
if you don't believe it, dump some on any vinyl made product.
I don't think I need to explain my quailfications, but I did work in the developmental phase of the composite!

RobertCDF

Blanket statements are made that ANY man made product is junk. These are just signs of ignorance.

I have personally dumped MOTOR oil on CX and left it for MONTHS. I then rinsed it off and used it on a project.

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DecksEtc

Just consider the source Robert

deck king

I will take that advise also!

Warren

A shorter post would have been " Anyone out there NOT have problems with Eon decking?

neolitic

Buy a dictionary, or go to a library
(they will let you use one for free.)
Then look up "petroleum,"
and report back.

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DecksEtc

That would be the noun "advice", not the verb "advise".

deck king

Go to school for 12 years, get you degree in biochemical engineering, get a basic understanding of , lets say... anything... than realize that Vinyl is a resin, plastic or synthetic fibre made from a vinyl compound! that compound is made up of natural gas, complex hydrocorbons! as is most made made products that are combustable!
now... lets see what MR WEBSTER says about petroleum, an oily liquid mixture of complex hydrocarbons, natural gas.
now get out you pen and write this down.... gases are created by the breaking down of living cells, which are breaking down because of the loss of Amino Acids.
Lets see what MR. WEBSTER says about proteins...any of a class of Amino Acids that are essential constituents of all living cells.
So, I believe if was you that said in a post on this thread something about
people not knowing what they are talking about, and making generalizations..
Thanks for the opertunity, to show all of us, what an uneducated, hipocritical, self endulgent, fool looks like. An just to clearify my position on this topic, I will explain it in laymans terms.
Nowhere, in you incohereant rambelings, have you said anything remotely
close to being a rational thought.

Warren

know i shouldn't but..........................................

Thats a lot of misspellings!

neolitic

Nonsense?
OIlive oil, Koolaid, wine are petroleum based?
Not in this universe.

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deck king

Actually, they are! but, its a high protein type. ( oily liquid ) as in gelatin, which is consumable. gelatine- a tasteless colloidal protein.
this is a natural process as compared with man made.
Now, which universe are you living in !
Oh, I'm getting so tired of KICKING ASS.
This is why I never argu with morons, Eventually, they bring you down to their level, than beat you with experience!

deck king

Neolitic, I'm not calling you a moron!
the correct response would be igronant-knot knowing // lack of knowledge
on this topic.

neolitic

Would you be so kind as to
provide a couple of citations
for this....definition of petroleum?

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deck king

A citation, is a sommons to appear in court or a quotation.
I believe what you mean to say is, would you cite that information.
Sure, I already did that a couple of posts ago when I defined petroleum
directly from the " New Webster Dictionary" copyright 1993 by Lexicon Publications, Inc.
LOOK, none of this is opinion, it's fact, the deeper you look ,the more you confirm the facts. I didn't discover this stuff, so I don't have an emotional claim to protect. I didn' attack anyone, ... first. I am actually educating you to the fact...free of charge. An intelligant person would absorb this information and use it to the best of their ability.
If new data comes out and proves me wrong, I'll admit I'm wrong. I just can understand why you would argu when your not prepaired to give facts. The ones I gave, are the easiest to verify. I don't want to explain the Periodic Tables, quantum phsyics, or microbiology to anyone, Even if I were able to, you would understsand it!

neolitic

Perhaps there was a misprint in that edition?
"Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged"
and
"Brittanica World Language Dictionary"
and
"The American Heritage Dictionary"
All seem to be pretty much in line
with these......
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...4269/petroleum
"Main
complex mixture of hydrocarbons that occur in the Earth in liquid, gaseous, or solid forms. The term is often restricted to the liquid form, commonly called crude oil, but as a technical term it also includes natural gas and the viscous or solid form known as bitumen. The liquid and gaseous phases of petroleum constitute the most important of the primary fossil fuels. ......."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petroleum
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/petroleum
http://www.businessdictionary.com/de...petroleum.html
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictiona...rude+petroleum
http://www.yourdictionary.com/petroleum
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...4269/petroleum

I will however attempt to locate
a copy of the edition you cited.

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deck king

Thanks for the offer!
There is a reason it is called "crude oil", it is in this stage that the solid and liquid forms start the process of the cellular decomposition, ( the breakdown of the amino acids ) that transforms the substance to a gaseous form. it you go futher down the cycle you get into atomization then into other infinate form of nueclear and sub-atomic breakdown.
do you think this is how a nueclear war will start? all because someone does not want to say "sorry, I was wrong"
O.K. I'll say it "sorry, I was wrong" but all the scientific evidence is still in support of my statements.
and I'll also admit, the sun is really an orange on a stick and the stork actually does deliver babies! just because I say so, doesn't make it true!
I can, however, go on spanking you all day long.
I will end this now and look for someone more challanging. thanks

Greg Di

You anti-synthetic guys are basing your posts on the fact that Eon was junk.

Eon WAS junk. We all know it. That does not mean that all synthetics have the same issues.

You might as well be arguing that all cars are junk because you had a Yugo, once in 1984, and it was a piece of crap therefore all brands are crap.

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