welcome back to brazilian wood depot’s

youtube channel my name is sam and i

talk about everything regarding

brazilian hardwood decking and siding

today we’re talking about ipe deck tiles

and i’m very excited about this because

this is a product i feel very very

strongly about we’re going to talk about

its uses a little bit about the basic

installation

we’ll talk about sustainability

availability and a little bit about

pricing so ebay deck tiles let’s get

started

the tightening

um

the tightening points here

should be minimum three-quarter inches

so fine so the bottom expands out uh i

don’t want to go into too too great at

detail

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like i said folks welcome back to

brazilian with depot’s youtube channel

my name is sam today we’re talking about

ipe deck tiles the deck tile i have in

front of me uh is two feet by two feet

so this is four square feet total it

consists of eight individual boards

fastened together by three on the back

with a bunch of screws uh like i said

i’m very excited about this video

because i feel so strongly about ipe

deck tiles

they are incredibly durable just like

ipe is of course

and they’re nearly indestructible

deck tiles can be used on any deck

structure however they’re really

designed for certain

situations they’re designed for low

ventilation areas so if you have an area

around a pool and you want to be

basically ground level

deck tiles work very well also rooftop

epdm

rubber membrane roof decks this product

is really designed for that anywhere um

where you can’t get a whole lot of

elevation off of the ground you’re

working on maybe it’s a concrete slab

and you can’t put a two by six under it

for a standard deck frame

this comes in really handy one by sixes

as we know and you may have heard me

talk about it in the cupping video one

by sixes and five quarter by six boards

and five quarter by four boards and one

by four boards are all susceptible to

cupping if they don’t have good adequate

airflow underneath the deck

these deck tiles will not cup

and that’s one reason i like them so

much and you can use them on anywhere it

doesn’t have to be a low ventilated area

but if you are on a standard pressure

treated deck structure system you’re

going to need to be on 12 inches or 24

inch joist spacing 16 inches

joist spacing just doesn’t work

okay let’s talk about the basics of

installation with these deck tiles

there’s two main methods of installing

deck tiles one

using the deck tile connectors this

needs to be used on a flat surface so a

flat slab of concrete or a floating

frame that’s flat or just a regular

pressure treated joist system will work

i really like these dectile connectors

you see that has four prongs on here

let’s look at the bottom of the deck

tile

it’s got four one in each hole one in

each corner rather three eighths inch

holes that slip perfectly onto these

ribbed prongs and this is what keeps the

deck tiles together with one another the

deck tile connector also spaces them out

so that the spacing between the deck

tiles are consistent with the spacing

between these little boards deck tile

connectors are also awesome because if

you use your box cutter you can score

the back side of it a couple times

and they

break

there

you can break them off on either side

of the walls

so that they’re not showing

they have a lot of break points

and so you can go into corners i really

really love these deck tile connectors

they’re also pre-drilled

little holes so that you can screw them

onto your frame or probably in some

cases use a tap con or a blue

blue screw to get into your concrete so

a great method of fastening but does not

accommodate for slope the second method

of fastening is the pedestal systems

several different companies make

pedestal systems and generally speaking

all pedestal systems are compatible with

all deck tiles

i don’t know if that’s true totally

across the board but for instance i know

that the common ones like bison pedestal

systems will work with our deck tiles we

provide

pedestal systems from deck wise there

are three different sizes based on the

minimum height and the slope that you’re

trying to accommodate i’m not going to

go into a huge

amount of detail about

the pedestals because the deckwise

website is so thorough and has so much

great information about exactly how to

install them and the exact specs on each

one of those

pedestals in many projects you’ll

probably be using at least two different

types of pedestals in combination

throughout the coverage

i suppose there are some situations

where you might use all three

in just a minute i’m going to talk a

little bit about

what i think the best way to plan for

which height pedestals you need

but again two methods of fastening the

dectile connectors and the pedestals

another thing i forgot to mention about

the connectors is if you wanted to you

could actually

slide a deck clip into this corner you

can see that it has a groove here and a

groove all corners have the grooves so

if this was on a corner here

okay that was on a corner here let’s

assume that was still together because i

have more here you can actually fit a

deck clip here or a washer and screw

that down into the center of your joist

it’s not always it’s not really

necessary i can’t imagine any gust of

wind ever picking these things up as you

can see

they’re very heavy

i just wanted to make that comment that

all four corners are grooved they’re

slotted so that you can use a washer or

a deck clip

okay like i said i wanted to quickly

talk about a really clever way to figure

out exactly what height pedestals you

need so you can make sure you’re getting

the correct

size of the three different sizes one

really good way to do it let’s say

you’re on a concrete pad you can chalk a

two foot grid uh have two foot lines in

both directions perpendicular and at

those intersections that’s where you’re

gonna pedestal is gonna sit so you could

set up a 360 laser light to the height

of where you want the elevation to be

for the deck tiles and then you drop a

tape measure onto the line and

it shows you how high the top of the

deck tile is going to be

with your on your tape measure wherever

the laser is hitting that tape measure

and then you can jot that down at that

intersection point same thing for all of

them so you know exactly what quantity

minimum height of this style what

quantity minimum height of that style

okay i think that pretty much does it

for

the basics about installation remember

on our website we have a very thorough

document about how to use the dectile

connectors it even talks about if you

need to resize this by removing one of

the three boards and either

repositioning or removing entirely

and then of course you would drill your

own 3 8 inch hole

to accommodate this new size again

that’s all on our website and the

deckwise website has the information on

the pedestals very very thorough one

more thing i i did want to mention is

we’re seeing more and more uh drainage

systems under decks some of them are

suitable for the standard one by six

planks others are not i don’t like using

one by six on top of the membranes that

drooped between the joists uh one

because i know that they’re going to get

clogged up towards the end it’s an it’s

an inevitable inevitability um and i

think that the 1×6 boards will cup if

they’re bottom grooves the likelihood is

less but there’s still that possibility

if you insist or if you’re already

planning or you already have the

materials to use something like that i

think one is called trex rain escape

using deck tiles is far more advisable

than using those again they won’t cup

but two if you use the connector system

and you don’t even like i said before

you don’t need the washer or the deck

clip you can actually just pop these up

to clear out debris in that system so if

you must use a drainage system and it’s

much more cost effective is my

understanding to use the membranes that

do this over and under the joists i

highly recommend considering dectiles i

know it’s not everybody’s aesthetic

preference standard traditional deck

boards are sometimes more desirable in

that way this is a little more modern

look uh don’t forget you can parquet

these which is probably most common or

you can keep them all parallel and

they’re all going the same direction i

think that’s it for installation next we

are going to talk about um

prices availability and sustainability

i’ve got a really good article with a

bunch of good videos on my website about

ebay and sustainability ipe already is

uh very environmentally friendly it’s

100 biodegradable there’s no plastics no

chemicals

and very little waste because small

pieces are used for

knife handles and furniture

but it is interesting to talk about

sustainability and as it relates to deck

dectiles in particular

so

dectiles are even perhaps even more

environmentally friendly than let’s say

a 20 foot or a 16 foot ipe one by six or

five quarter by six board they need

longer you know logs to make to produce

those and they can use pretty much the

scraps to make the deck tiles or

otherwise they’re using the smaller

pieces that otherwise wouldn’t be able

to be used for full size decking so deck

tiles are very environmentally friendly

because it’s just another example of

using every part of the tree with little

to no waste so if you’re looking for a

sustainable option ipe already has that

covered but deck tiles perhaps to even

further extent our more sustainable more

environmentally more environmentally

friendly because we’re using all parts

of the tree and we’re actually getting

good use out of these smaller pieces

which otherwise really wouldn’t be

usable

so like i said at the beginning of the

video i wanted everybody to see what

these deck tiles look like with oil on

them because they’re so beautiful with

uh with the oil applied meantime let’s

talk very quickly about pricing and

availability generally the price per

square foot of the deck tiles follows

closely with the price per square foot

of ebay 1×6 now if you add side grooves

for hidden fasteners or bottom grooves

for low ventilation the deck tiles

usually come out to be a little more

cost effective but uh compared to five

quarter ipe boards uh deck tiles are i

think always more cost effective and

substantially so at the time of filming

this we have thousands of deck tiles so

for current pricing please give us a

call

we do a pretty good job of keeping these

in inventory so we generally always have

these

okay so there you have it ipe dectile

with oil i of course use the mesmer’s

uv plus natural that you see there quick

and painless

it’s really easy to rub on this oil and

look how beautiful this deck tile is

i just used a little cotton piece of a

cotton t-shirt

a lot of people like the deck boss but i

don’t want to get into too many details

i have that whole video about ipe deck

maintenance and how to oil it

that’s it ipe deck tiles call us for

pricing again my name is sam and we’ll

see you next time

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