A silver anniversary is not a happy occasion for a wood deck. Twenty-five years of exposure to sun, rain, snow, temperature fluctuations, foot traffic and Chesterfield County’s notoriously shifty soils had left Mike and Raylene Harton’s deck in need of serious renovation or replacement. “Since we rarely used the deck except for grilling—we spent most of our time in the attached screened porch—the deck was expendable,“ Mike Harton said.