Austin Wholesale

Don't trust them to deliver. If you do have them deliver, insist on your schedule since you are paying for it ($75 per load), and insure you are present to make sure they drop it where you need it not where they want to drop and run from.  If you are not there, they don't drop and run. If you have them deliver, MARK the boards you pick out, and insure they are what actually get delivered so they don't switch out your good choices for their waste products. If they advertise a webspecial, and you print the page documenting it, do not accept their "switch out" "better deal" offer, insist on what they advertised.  My original redwood deck lasted 14 years in the hot Texas Sun on Lake Travis.  With this crummier, cheaper cedar wood, I'm having to seal all the knotholes, seal all four sides of the boards with expensive paint to insure the boards don't warp out and fall into pocked mark surfaces due to the knotholes which had already shrunk out and left holes through and through.  Sealed those with epoxy wood.  Then sanded several grits to prepare the surfaces.  Bottom Line: Wasted days and days, a lot of extra work, materials, and unknown lifespan for the deck, because of them.  What a downer.