Down here unfinished will not last without stain/ finish.on cedar every few years it has to be redone. Same with treated pine . There is some good looking PVC deck mtl. Out there that will outlast treated. Bill if you use treated for deck put it close together cause it shrinks a lot
Pat W
Makes sense to me.
Anybody ever hear about what happens to wood building materials in Central America? I once read where a church group down there built everything out of concrete blocks as insects literally devoured anything made of wood. Can you imagine?