Trex Composite Decking — Hudson Valley, NY
Trex Signature Decking, Trex Transcend Lineage, Trex Refuge, and Trex Select — installed with hidden fasteners and taped joists to TrexPro® Platinum spec. Wood stays in the hidden framing where it belongs; every walking surface is capped composite or PVC built to resist cracking, splintering, and fading through Hudson Valley freeze-thaw cycles.
Why the board you choose decides what winter five looks like.
A deck surface in the Hudson Valley lives through freeze-thaw cycles that punish porous material. Pressure-treated pine checks, splinters, cups, and demands stripping and resealing every couple of years — which is why we reserve wood for the hidden framing, where it belongs, and build every walking surface in composite or PVC.
Not all composite earns that trust. Bargain-tier boards skip the capped polymer shell or wrap a thin one, and after three winters the cap fails: fade in the sun-baked sections, chalky oxidation, a fuzzy texture where the cap wore through. Once water reaches the wood-fill core, the board swells and never lies flat again.
That is why we install Trex, with the lines we trust to survive here — installed to the TrexPro® Platinum standard.
Transcend Carmel, day and night.
One finished build, filmed as it lives: the Transcend Carmel surface and its factory plaque, stair lighting that comes on at dusk, and a hot tub set on framing rated for the loaded weight. The board you pick in daylight is the same one glowing under the rail lights at ten o'clock.
Trex Transcend CarmelGray boards, fire on top.
A gray composite deck off the back of the house. Fire table and seating in the middle, a hot tub at the far end, black rails on the edge. One surface carries all of it.
Gray Composite + Fire TableEvery cut shows.
Boards run on the diagonal into a double center board, then picture-framed at the step edge. An in-deck light sits in the frame. On a pattern like this every cut shows, so every cut has to land.
Diagonal Pattern + Picture FrameSignature, Lineage, Refuge, and Select — when each is right.
Trex Signature Decking is the premier line and our answer when the surface is the centerpiece: a denser board, refined grain, and a fully wrapped capped shell that holds color and shrugs off scratching better than anything else Trex makes. The Whidbey tone — a warm, weathered gray-brown — ages beautifully on a river-view deck.
Trex Transcend Lineage brings the full collection of nature-inspired tones and runs cooler underfoot thanks to heat-mitigating technology — the difference you feel barefoot on a south-facing pool deck in July. Lineage is the call when you want range, cooler boards, and honest wood-look tones.
Trex Refuge is Trex's first 100% cellular PVC board, carrying a Class A flame spread rating and meeting IWUIC/WUI fire-compliance code — the right call on a wooded edge, where code is tightening, or when a homeowner simply prefers fully cellular PVC. No cap to wear through, cooler underfoot, two quiet wood-look tones.
Trex Select covers the value end of the Trex lineup with a capped composite shell and a practical tone range — the right call when the budget needs discipline but you still want a Trex surface installed to the same spec.
Hold the boards in your own daylight before you decide — we encourage every client to order free Trex samples during design.
The details that make it look custom are the ones that make it last.
Every Pinnacle deck gets a picture-frame border around the perimeter so there are no exposed cut ends, matching fascia wrapping the sides so you never see a raw rim joist, Camo hidden fasteners in the field so the boards can expand and contract, and two screws with two plugs at every board end and every foot of the picture frame to lock them in — no exposed screw heads, no rust streaks, no trip-line of fasteners working loose over the winters.
Underneath, the structure rides on engineered helical pile foundations with taped and capped framing, because the surface only performs as well as what carries it. Engineering and building permits are carried inside our scope, not billed as a separate line item.
To keep the 10-year labor warranty through Trex whole, we spec decking and railing together as one coordinated Trex system. It is not an upsell; it is how the warranty stays intact.
Finished Trex surfaces across the Hudson Valley.
Homeowners ask.
Which Trex line is best for a Hudson Valley deck?
Signature for the flagship build where the deck surface is the star; Lineage when you want range, cooler boards, and honest wood-look tones; Refuge PVC where fire code or a preference for cellular PVC decides it. All three carry Trex's long fade-and-stain material warranty, and we help you choose against real samples during design.
Does composite decking get too hot for bare feet?
Any dark surface warms in direct sun. Trex Transcend Lineage uses heat-mitigating technology to run cooler than comparable colors, and on a full-sun, south-facing pool deck we steer toward lighter tones so the surface stays comfortable underfoot.
Are engineering and permits extra?
No. Engineering and building permits are included in every Pinnacle project — sealed structural drawings, the helical foundation plan, and the full municipal submission, handled in-house, never a separate line item.
Trex Signature Railing — Helical Pile Foundations — Trex Signature Guide — Case Study: Hudson Horizon Haven — Dutchess County — Putnam County
Ready to plan your project?
Every build starts with a design consultation. Engineering and building permits are carried inside our scope, not billed as a separate line item.