Lumber - Home Store or Lumber Yard?

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Originally Posted by oldman

How long are you going to stay in the house? If you're in for 10+ years, buy the good stuff at a lumber yard. If you're looking to stay 3-4 years and trade up, hit the box stores.

We plan to stay here for the rest of our lives. We looked at the composite stuff. It was more expensive but it wasn't a lot more expensive. But....and there's always a but...you have to add joists as it is not a strong as wood. Joists would have to be 16" apart rather than the 24" that they are now. I would like to do this and have it last 10-15 years at a minimum. And then perhaps we would have a professional company replace it with composite decking.