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