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Deck Screws - An Overlooked, But Essential Deck Tool
Building a deck is an investment in both your lifestyle and your home’s value. This is why deck builders know that in order to ensure that your new deck is built to last, they will recommend using deck hardware and tools that will last as long as your deck. In addition to deck fasteners, one piece of essential deck hardware that is often overlooked is deck screws. Simply put, you have to be sure that the decking screws you buy are not going to strip, or break during or after installation.
If you’re a do-it-yourself homeowner taking on a deck building project, buying cheap decking screws will pretty much guarantee that you will have a horrible deck installation experience. This is especially true if you are building a wood deck with exotic hardwoods such as ipe decking, tigerwood decking, cumaru decking, or garapa decking. These hardwoods can be quite a hassle, especially ipe since it is, by far, one of the hardest decking materials you can buy. The same goes for cumaru decking. Both can make inexperienced deck builders and homeowners doing a DIY home improvement project use words that would make their mothers ashamed!
Regardless of the hardwood decking you choose, here’s what you need to know about buying the right deck screws:
Buy stainless screws made of high quality stainless steel. 305 and 316 grade stainless steel are the most commonly used and ideal for exotic hardwood decking. However the grade is not always the difference maker. Screws are typically a product that you get what you pay for. There can be a huge difference between a cheaply made 305 grade stainless screw and one manufactured from top quality materials.
Although stainless steel is a generally soft material, it is required when installing a hardwood deck because other materials can react with the hardwoods and cause corrosion issues or give off hideous stains on the decking surface. 305 and 316 grade stainless steel screws are totally ideal for deck building because they offer great corrosion resistance, have maximum drawing ability and superior formability. Their high corrosion resistance means that these stainless deck screws can last through seasonal changes and inclement weather. Choosing cheaper screws will lead to cam-out, the heads completely stripping and, worse, snapping.
The issue of stripping is one that also needs to be considered. This is where the screw head needs to be your number one focus when it comes to buying deck screws. Why? Think about it. If you buy cheap deck screws that fit a Philip’s head bit and you’re using ipe decking, you’ll run through a whole bunch of screws because of the density of the wood. The force needed to drill in an inferior screw pretty much guarantees that you’ll end up with rows and rows of stripped screws, or worse, very brittle screws that will break over time.
Again, buying high-quality stainless steel decking screws will increase your chances of a smooth deck installation process. Moreover, if you buy torx drive screws you’ll really have a better time building your deck. Torx screws are just the thing for hard wood decking. Any good deck builder will tell you that building a hardwood deck from dense woods such as ipe, cumaru, tigerwood, and garapa, can only be done with resilient deck screws. Torx deck screws have a six-pointed star head that resist cam-out and stripping much more than other head designs.
If you still think you’ll be just fine building your wood or composite deck with cheap deck screws, do yourself a favor. Buy at least one third more in screws so that you can have enough to replace the ones that snap or strip. The last thing you need is to run out of screws and then spend more time and money driving to the home improvement store. At this point, do you really think you’ll save money building a deck the cheap way?
Or, you could follow the advice of deck builders across the country who use both deck fasteners with the best deck screws. If the pros buy deck hardware that makes deck building easier, shouldn’t you? Spending a few extra dollars to ensure that your hardwood deck gets built correctly will not only save you money in the short run, it will also save you time, energy and money in the long term too. After all, wood decking doesn’t stay the same. Over the course of time, hardwood decking contracts and expands as the weather changes and as it ages. Even if you’re lucky enough to install a deck with cheap screws, if they break, you’ll have to spend both time and your hard-earned resources maintaining and repairing your broken deck.
Ultimately, it’s your deck. Hopefully, this advice has geared you toward making the process simpler, easier, and a lot smoother.
About the Author
Dan Schiefer is an expert in deck fasteners, deck screws and all types of deck tools.
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why does some wine come with a cork, while others have a screw top lid?
the screw top has better wine because it seals better on some cork bottles the wine can go awful, and I did drink one of these bottles before. If you don't believe me have a look around, the pricey bottles and brand names have screw tops and for some reason the really cheap stuff in tesco has them too.
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For the people that are saying about the cheap wines have screw top, I am 100% sure that you're wrong.
You can open a corked bottle but when you try to drink it, youo discover that it tastes and smells like damp cardboard or worse. The wine is "corked." The wine industry estimates that anywhere between 2 and 8 percent of all wines are corked, meaning that they are affected by cork taint, a harmless but exceedingly unpleasant mold or chemical taste imparted by infected corks. Despite prodigious eradication efforts, the cause of and cure for cork taint remains mysterious. Nor is the problem limited to the shriveled little stoppers found in cheap swill. Its prevalence is only slightly lower in the highest-quality corks.
It should also be said that the screw top on say a New Zealand Merlot is only distantly related to the crude shard of aluminum that adorns the top of some soda bottles. Modern wine screw caps are highly engineered pieces of packaging technology, developed over many years to do the job that corks seem to do only imperfectly. That job is quite simple: to keep the wine inside the bottle and to seal out the air. For a while, some tried to turn cork's deficient sealing capability into a strength, arguing that a slight amount of air exchange is necessary for aging. However, it is now generally agreed that wine is naturally bottled with enough air dissolved in the liquid to permit it to mellow with age. Even if that were not so, modern screw tops are so precise that the winemaker can adjust the tightness of the seal to allow more or less outside air to enter, without the risk of cork taint.
Because of these and other advantages, many wineries have decided to chuck corks entirely and go with screw caps, even for their best wines. No country has done so more zealously than New Zealand.
In America, however, the vast majority of consumers invariably link screw caps with cheap wine. Why? For the past 30 years, those were the only wines that used screw caps. Once an association is made in the consumer's mind, changing it is an almost-insurmountable task.
4 thumbs down and no thumbs up! Right I'm going to put this down to America hasn't gotten the idea of good wine yet. Try Chile's cono sur pinot noir screw cap and a great wine.
Look I know from a wine taster that if your paying between €15-€30 for a bottle of wine the good ones are screw caps, I'm feeling quite passionate about this because I feel quite passionate about wine and I can spend ages buying some because I read the back, even in the different languages.
I will say Lambrini, Lambrusco and cold water creek I wouldn't even glance at them.
Alright I need to calm down, maybe drink a bit of wine! A good screw cap one!! 
First Mrs GC - Thank you for the thumbs up!
Second Chris - You can get pinot grigio as a screw cap too.