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Installing Trex Transcend = unsquare ends ? (Picture Included)

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#1 ·
Just getting ready to install TrexTransend decking and noticed that none of the ends on the decking are square, requiring a cut on both ends to square things up.

Is this standard for Trex Products? It's got me bothered.

Thanks
 

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#2 ·
Any material is like that, if you measure it you will see it's longer then what you think you bought. A 12' pieces is longer then 12'. Just trim it and move on.
Just make sure to use a speed square and check your own saw.
 
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DO NOT router a CAP layer decking product, it'll look like garbage and remove the protective cap. And please don't use face screws, use the HFS their designed to allow expansion/contraction and they make the deck look so much better.

It's common for every decking and wood product to come like that. Like others have said let the ends hang over and cut them all at once.
 
#5 ·
With Trex you always want it to hang over, it grows so much in the sun it will push out anything you try to band it with. Also leave a good 1/2" at your railings so it doesnt push them out too. Longer the board the more it grows.
 
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Depending on how big that deck is and how many butt joints, by the time you get to later cuts you may be more than a 16th off yourself, or ready to just say, "It's close enuff."
Question for robertcdf, aside from the looks, and I agree, that can leave it looking like a chewed up rubber eraser, what's the difference between routing and just cutting? There's no protection on that raw end.
 
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