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Deck Safety Tips – How to Grill On a Hardwood Deck

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Keep Your Owner’s Manual
Read your owner’s manual from cover to cover. Because there are so many types of outdoor grills, you can’t assume that they all work the same. Your grill’s owner’s manual will tell you the best way to use and maintain your grill. It also should guide you to proper safety guidelines that will keep you and those around you safe. Your grill’s warranty and customer service information are important pieces of information that your grill will contain.

Look Up…Do You See The Sky? GOOD!

Don’t grill under a covered porch or other enclosed area. Carbon monoxide poisoning is not something you want to take a chance on, ever.

What’s a Really Quick Way to End a Good Party? Start a Fire, of Course!

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Building Smarter Decks is Easy with DeckWise™

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AdvantageLumber.com is proud to announce we are a distributor of DeckWise™ decking products. When the good folks at Ipe Clip® Fastener Company showed us their new brand of decking screws, color-coded gap spacers, and other decking essentials, we knew right away we had to carry them. DeckWise™ offers builders and the do-it-yourself mavens everywhere premium …

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I LOVE Lumber Photo Contest Winner!

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Congratulations to the winner of our recent “I LOVE Lumber” photo contest. She won 25 board feet of Padauk lumber for pictures of these wonderful exotic hardwood canes. We ran this contest for our newsletter subscribers and received some wonderful entries (view the lumber contest entries here). We want to thank everyone who entered the …

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Pressure Treated Lumber Drives Sales For Lumber Company In Slow Building Economy

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Buffalo, NY April 18, 2011 In today’s sluggish construction industry, there are still bright spots of growth. One such example is with Advantage Lumber, LLC who is experiencing an increase in sales thanks to their new inventory of pressure treated lumber. According to Sales Manager, Jon Fletcher, “Previously, customers who saved with our hardwood decking …

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The Deck Economy

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According to Wikipedia, the definition of “Economy” starts:

An economy consists of the economic system of a country or other area, the labor, capital and land resources, and the economic agents that socially participate in the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area. A given economy is the end result of a process that involves its technological evolution, history and social organization, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions.

When you decide to build a deck, you are pretty much creating your very own micro-economy. That one decision to improve your home’s value and your overall quality of life triggers a whole set of events that have a positive impact on people’s lives.

How does it all work? Generally speaking, the Deck Economy has two phases:

PHASE 1 – The Deck Building Phase
The Deck Economy - Phase 1

The reality of your specific situation might be different. But, generally, this is how the great majority of deck installations affect your local economy.

Even after your deck is completed, your living on it has an economic impact. The second phase of the Deck Economy is all about outdoor living and commerce.

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