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0:05 hi everybody chris here for new tech
0:07 wood and today i'm really excited
0:08 because we are talking about one of our
0:11 flagship products new tech wood ultra
0:14 shield natural decking this stuff is
0:16 mold resistant it's stain resistant it
0:18 holds up great to the weather you never
0:20 have to paint it you never have to stain
0:22 it this is a tough deck and it's made
0:25 from recycled materials like milk jugs
0:26 and detergent bottles
0:29 the interior here is actually made from
0:32 recycled plastics and wood fibers and
0:35 this coating has a natural wood grain
0:37 and a straight grain on the other side
0:40 and what's cool is that that coating it
0:44 coats all four sides of the board so it
0:46 wraps it completely and keeps it
0:49 protected it also comes in multiple
0:51 colors as well as custom colors for your job
0:52 job
0:54 now you have four boards here that
0:56 provide different options for your
0:58 project and all of these are five and a
1:01 half inches by point nine inches and
1:04 they all come in eight foot and sixteen
1:07 foot runs now this fascia over here
1:10 comes in six foot and twelve foot runs
1:13 it's 11 inches by 5 8 inch and we use
1:15 this again with screws designed for
1:17 composite decking now we recommend that
1:20 all of these ends get treated with a
1:22 moisture seal that way you can make sure
1:24 and protect all of these from the elements
1:25 elements
1:27 now all of our decking boards have to be
1:30 installed at 16 inches on center that's
1:32 important the boards need to be at 12
1:34 inches on center if you're using them on
1:37 stairs now we don't recommend using the
1:39 hollow boards on stairs so make sure
1:41 that you're using one of our solid
1:43 boards if you're doing a stair application
1:44 application
1:47 now your fascia is going to be installed
1:50 with screws screws every 12 inches each
1:53 board will need two screws we have
1:55 fascia screws that are specifically used
1:57 for the fascia now i want to get started
1:59 talking about our decking boards and
2:01 we're going to start off with the us-07
2:04 this is the cortez series it's a solid
2:07 deck board and there are no grooves on
2:09 this one it's solid all the way around
2:11 all right now you're going to attach
2:13 this with screws that are designed for
2:15 composite decking so you're actually on
2:16 this one you're going to screw down into
2:19 the board to attach it to your deck substrate
2:21 substrate
2:23 the next one is our us-01 magellan
2:27 series now this is also a solid deck
2:29 board and again just like this guy here
2:31 it's got both sides
2:33 so we got that natural wood grain look
2:35 and we got the straight grain look over
2:36 here but this one
2:38 it has grooves
2:40 on either side
2:42 and those grooves are there if you want
2:45 a truly screwless or screw-free look on
2:47 your deck
2:49 we have a variety of fasteners to choose
2:50 from we're going to get to those in a
2:52 minute after we finish talking about the
2:55 deck boards the next one is the uh-02
2:56 and it's the voyager series and it's
2:59 this guy over here this is our hollow
3:01 core deck board this is our lightest
3:04 deck board and it is also grooved on the sides
3:05 sides
3:06 for those hidden fasteners and you can
3:08 see here it has these holes that go all
3:10 the way through the board making it
3:11 really lightweight but it's also
3:13 incredibly strong and then if you want
3:15 to finish it off we provide these handy
3:18 little caps that go right in there along
3:21 with your sealant keeps it in place
3:23 provides a really nice finished look
3:25 so one thing to note about the hollow
3:27 board because of the way that it's
3:29 engineered you don't want to use screws
3:31 with this one not that you probably
3:33 would with a screw-less system anyway
3:35 but just make sure you don't screw down
3:37 into this guy right there
3:40 finally we have the columbus series now
3:43 this is a solid board and we really made
3:46 this to complete that screw-free look so
3:48 we made this to be kind of the last
3:51 board that you need in your run columbus
3:53 board only has a wood grain finish on
3:56 one side because on the bottom we have
3:58 this groove down here that's going to
4:05 finally we got our fascia board this is
4:08 our us-05 it's a solid board
4:10 it's 12 feet long
4:13 it's 11 inches by 5 8 inch and we use
4:15 this again with screws designed for
4:17 composite decking and with our fascia
4:20 you're going to attach this using
4:22 composite decking screws and you're
4:25 going to screw it in every 12 inches and
4:26 you're going to have one on the top and
4:29 one on the bottom
4:30 now i'm going to take a minute and talk
4:33 about these clips as i mentioned with
4:35 most of our boards here these are
4:37 designed to go with that screw-free look
4:39 so you don't have to screw down into the
4:42 board you actually screw these into your
4:45 substrate and it allows the board to be
4:47 held in place without seeing any of
4:49 those screw marks screw blemishes or
4:51 nails or anything like that on top of
4:52 the board
4:53 so we have two systems that we're
4:56 working with we have the t-clip and the
4:58 mini gap system i'm going to start by
5:00 talking about the t-clip
5:02 the t-clip
5:04 leaves you with that kind of classic
5:06 deck gap you know when you take the nail
5:07 and you slide it between the two by
5:09 fours and you get that gap that's what
5:11 the t-clip is going to give you
5:14 it's a 7 32 inch gap
5:18 the mini gap system is a 3 64th inch gap
5:20 it's very narrow now so you should only
5:23 use this if you have very little debris
5:25 because that debris is not going to be
5:27 able to fall into those cracks like it
5:29 will with the t-clip system
5:31 one thing to note with the mini-gap
5:34 system you see with these clips here
5:37 it's designed with these three holes
5:39 you only need one screw so don't think
5:40 because there's three holes there you
5:42 gotta fill every hole with a screw you
5:44 just put one in that center hole and
5:45 you're good to go
5:49 now both the t-clip and the mini-gap
5:52 system have two different kinds of clips
5:55 so there are locking clips and there are
5:58 cec clips let me explain what that means
6:02 cec stands for contraction and expansion clip
6:03 clip
6:05 a locking clip as you might guess it
6:07 locks it so
6:09 like any material on planet earth deck
6:12 boards expand and contract now our
6:14 system allows you to control that
6:17 direction it allows you to control which
6:19 way the boards are going to expand and contract
6:20 contract
6:23 so typically we recommend using the
6:24 locking clip
6:27 in the center and allows the boards to
6:29 expand away from center so it's going to
6:31 expand and contract evenly so here you
6:34 can see with our t-clip system this is
6:36 what our locking clip looks like for the
6:38 t-clip system
6:40 and this is what our locking clip looks
6:43 like for the mini-gap system so let me
6:45 explain the primary difference between
6:47 the t-clip system and the mini gap
6:49 system and really what it comes down to
6:51 is thickness so if you look at this
6:54 right here you can see the t-clip system
6:56 has this thicker gap here and that's
6:57 basically going to be representative of
7:00 the gap in between your deck boards this
7:01 is going to be more like what you're
7:03 accustomed to seeing in terms of a
7:06 traditional deck layout like when my
7:08 grandpa used to make decks way back when
7:10 uh in his carpentry days he would
7:11 actually take a nail and he'd use that
7:13 as a spacer in between the deck boards
7:15 this is kind of what you get with that
7:17 with the mini gap system you can see
7:20 here you have a much thinner gap between
7:22 the two deck boards let me show you what
7:23 i mean down here on the table we're
7:25 going to come over here to these two
7:26 boards and i'm just going to show you to
7:28 give you an example of the difference in
7:31 thickness so if you were to lay this in here
7:32 here
7:34 and then this one comes in here
7:37 you can see here on our close-up shot
7:38 this is what your gap is going to look
7:40 like with the t-clip system now i'm
7:48 so now we take our mini gap clip
7:59 you see with the mini gap system you
8:02 have a much narrower gap in between your
8:04 deck boards still plenty of gap to allow
8:07 for drainage but it gives you a much
8:10 thinner look
8:11 all right so now i'm going to move over
8:13 here and talk about these clips so this
8:15 guy right here this guy that looks like
8:17 a little uh sled this is your starter
8:19 clip so this is what you're going to
8:20 want to use for that
8:23 first board in your run and the reason
8:24 why is
8:28 this can go right up against the wall so
8:30 imagine that
8:32 this is the the wall of your house
8:34 you're gonna put this guy right up here
8:37 against it and then
8:39 you can slide this right in there and
8:40 you can see
8:42 it's still going to secure it in place
8:45 but you're not going to see it so nice
8:46 nice
8:54 next we're going to talk about this guy
8:56 this is the columbus clip it really has
8:59 one job and that is to keep our columbus
9:03 board secured and we designed this to go
9:05 up against the edge of your deck just
9:07 like this so imagine this was the edge
9:09 of your deck and then you see this
9:11 little clip here it kind of looks almost
9:13 like a z it goes right into this groove
9:16 so if you see like this that goes right
9:17 in there
9:19 and then it's held into place just like that
9:20 that
9:22 so again it's going to be invisible to
9:24 your guests so you don't have any screws
9:25 or anything like that showing but it's
9:28 going to keep it perfectly secure
9:30 so imagine that was screwed in but it's
9:32 going to keep it perfectly secure
9:34 so that that board is in place it's not
9:35 going anywhere now
9:36 now
9:38 the starter clip works on the columbus
9:41 board as well however if you're ending
9:44 the deck with the columbus it's almost
9:47 impossible to use the starter on both
9:49 ends you can use the starter clip on the
9:51 first board but you're going to want to
9:54 use the columbus clip to install the
9:55 last board
9:56 all right so now i'm going to tell you a
9:58 little bit about how we want you to
10:01 handle breaker boards breaker board is
10:02 how you're going to kind of join a
10:04 couple of runs so just a note about
10:06 breaker boards if you have a run that's
10:09 longer than 32 feet it's mandatory that
10:11 you install a breaker board
10:14 so let's say you have a long run of
10:16 boards going this way and you're out of
10:18 board and you want to continue it but
10:20 you don't just want like a seam like you
10:22 don't want to seam like that you want to
10:24 install a breaker board down the middle
10:25 so basically
10:27 your setup would look
10:28 like this
10:29 so you'd have
10:31 long runs going that way long runs going
10:32 that way and you've got your breaker
10:34 board down the middle to kind of make a
10:36 nice beautiful seam right there in that
10:38 center so how do you use a clip to
10:40 install there on the breaker board well
10:46 so let's pretend that this is our
10:48 breaker board right here and this is our
10:50 long run
10:51 what you would do
10:54 is you would take your clip
10:56 you'd install it right here and then on
10:58 the ends of these boards you'd use a
11:00 plunge router and just route out a space
11:02 right there
11:04 those would come together right there
11:06 and you just screw straight down and
11:09 that would hold both in place
11:12 now we have a really good installation
11:14 video that gets into all the specifics
11:16 about how to use all this stuff and i
11:17 recommend you check it out when you're
11:19 ready to take on your next project
11:23 thanks a lot good luck [Music]
