What is the best product for a porch considering Ohio weather.
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Treated wood or composite. Treated wood will be less money but you will have to stain it down the road to protect it. I have learned to use a linseed based stain that soaks into the wood and protects it rather than a product that only sits on top of the wood and will eventually blister, bubble and peel due to cold, wet winters, and shoveling snow and ice off the porch.
Composite is the best. We live at the beach in NJ and we've had a lawn swing made of white composite for 12 years and it's just like we bought it yesterday (except it needs power washing right now). And being white, it doesn't get hot like the colored ones do.
WE have porches that are old (113 years to be exact) only one of them has been replaced. They are wood; ceilings walls, railings, balusters, floors, stairs. Some of the balusters have been replaced. The stairs have been rebuilt. We live in Maine near the ocean.