Two Brand New Ipe Pool Decks for Upscale Miami Hotel
We've seen the blog posts and read the newspaper articles. We've also looked at the Ipe Decking Sales figures. It's official. It's definably becoming more and more popular for restaurants and hotels to use Ipe Decking as their choice of decking material for pool decks, bar decks and yes even the outdoor dining deck. The reasons are numerous, but before we get into that let's talk about the latest we've heard of down here in Florida.
The Gansevoort Hotel in Miami is a very upscale hotel. It has ocean views, a modeling agency on the 4th floor, and one look at their web site tells you they are definitely and upscale an establishment that cares about providing luxury, function and making things look beautiful. Ipe Decking follows these specifications in a grand manner.
Ipe Decking is a great choice for a Florida pool deck on the beach at a hotel (especially an upscale hotel!).
- Ipe Deck Boards are beautiful. Just look at them!
- Ipe Decking material is as sturdy and durable as wood comes. The last thing a hotel wants is a guest injured by a deck!
- Ipe decking is slip resistant! It may not stop every slip and fall lawsuit in the world, but at least you can say in court you don't have a slippery deck!
- Ipe is so dense that it takes quite a bit to make it splinter. Upscale hotel guests (and the guests at your home) don't want splinters in their feet from your deck!
- Ipe decking is right in line with composite decking prices, but as you can see:
- There's NO comparison when it comes to looks!
- Ipe Deck boards last 40+ years with no maintenance, Over a hundred years with maintenance!
- Composite decking will last maybe 10 at the most (if you buy the really ugly and expensive stuff that looks like a plastic imitation of a deck board), and needs to be treated regularly (even though they say it doesn't).
- Composite deck boards have plastic in them. You know what happens when you leave plastic in the Florida sun for a year or two? It either melts or gets really brittle. Either way you have a deck that's unsightly and unsafe.