Best barrier to restrict weeds/sapling growth under a deck?
2/17/2024 at 8:23:01 PM
This spring I will be taking up my deck boards so that I can re-lay landscape fabric under the deck. Saplings from a near-bye tree are growing up between the boards and I have been cutting them proud to the deck every week during the spring growing season. They seem to grow about 1/2 inch a day and each year the issue gets worse. Given that I must remove and re-install the deck boards I thought I would lay down two layers of fabric. A friend suggested instead of fabric I use screen (ie the stuff used to screen in a porch). I am not so sure that would work. Any opinions.? Landscape fabric vs aluminium screen for the task?
2/18/2024 at 5:23:18 PM
The only way I have found for a permanent fix is, weed cloth over entire deck area and then gravel on top. This is done prior to a deck build, in your case remove decking then rebuild.
2/18/2024 at 6:39:12 PM
I have tried many different products to keep weeds down and the best I have found to work is landscape fabric or plastic vapour barrier
And then for a cleaner look put down clean stone
All the best and good luck with your project
2/19/2024 at 12:57:00 PM
We do this all the time in our deck builds.
We put high quality landscape fabric, not the junk you find at the big box stores, directly on the soil then a layer of gravel to keep it neat and tidy.
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