"Mapanari" stunningly gives constructive and
helpful advice...

Composite wood is shit. It's top layer spalls and frays and comes apart
like
old solid fiberglass and it looses it's color and turns grey.
Better ones are the solid planks made out of recyled plastic, solid color,
but expensive.

I myself would do one of two things;

1. Bricks. Since the bricks themselves can be had on sale for .25 each
if
you wait or go get a business lisence and get the wholesale price, the
rest
is labor. A crew of 4 meskins for one day can do the whole patio if you
have
all the materials.
a. Have a dump truck bring you a lot of fine sand and gravel, rent a
vibrating machine to tamp it down hard, then have the meskins lay the
bricks
and use one course of bricks standing upright as a permanent edge.

2. Poured solid color concete patio, stamped.
a. Or basic concrete with river rock spread on top, let it milk up and
wait 20 minutes, hose off the milk, set, then come back the next day and
use
muritic acid and water to polish and clean the last of the concrete milk
off.


The advantage of pouring concrete is that your imagination has no bounds
on
forming and shaping walks, steps, bends, flower boxes, circles in the
middle
to plant a large tree etc.


hth

mapi


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