Kool Deck falling out of favor?

Feeling hot, hot, hot'
New surfaces keep our backyards, patios cool

From AZCentral.com comes this article on Pool Decking and new choices for pool decks...read it all at their website.



Brian Anderson
At Home Week
Mar. 16, 2007 12:00 AM
Arizona backyards are getting hot, hot, hot. But it's not so much the sole responsibility of Kool Deck anymore to keep the heat at bay.

Homeowners around the Valley are sprucing up patios, pools and landscaping with resort-style amenities and materials that not long ago were considered exotic.

Flagstone, bricks and pavers are in style while Kool Deck - the textured topping invented by Tucson's Mortex Manufacturing Co. more than four decades ago, is slowly falling out of favor - at least at the upper end of the economic spectrum.
Big spenders
"No client that we deal with would consider installing Kool Deck," said Steven Rogers, a registered landscape architect with Sonoran Desert Designs in Cave Creek.