Tufdek™ Vinyl Decking

The Industry's Strongest Vinyl – and It's Not Close

Tufdek is the only vinyl decking manufacturer in North America that both produces and directly distributes its product through a network of authorized dealers. That means quality control from the factory floor to your finished deck, with no middlemen diluting the standard.

As a certified Tufdek dealer, Viewpoint's crews are factory-trained in every aspect of the system: surface preparation, adhesive application, hot-air seam welding, and PVC metal flashing installation. It's why we can confidently back every Tufdek project with our own 10-year labour warranty on top of Tufdek's 15-year product warranty.

Independent quarterly audits by Intertek (Warnock Hersey) verify that every square foot of Tufdek meets the same manufacturing standard. No other vinyl decking company in the industry submits to that level of ongoing third-party scrutiny.

The Problem: Plastic Edge Clips

Most vinyl decking installers (including budget competitors) use cheap plastic edge clips to terminate the vinyl at the deck edge. These clips are notorious for failing, typically within 2-5 years. Calgary's freeze-thaw cycling accelerates this dramatically.

Here's what happens: the plastic clip cracks, warps, or pulls away from the fascia. The vinyl membrane releases from the edge. Water gets behind and underneath the membrane, where it sits on the plywood and rots the substrate from below. By the time you notice soft spots, you're looking at significant plywood replacement on top of a full re-vinyl.

Tuff Industries built an entire page on their website documenting these failures because they saw the same pattern across thousands of installations industry-wide. The plastic clip was never designed to last the 15-20 year lifespan of a quality vinyl membrane.

The Solution: Tuff-Clad PVC Metal Flashing

Tufdek's answer to the edge clip problem is Tuff-Clad: a PVC-coated galvanized metal flashing system that's hot-air welded directly to the vinyl membrane. It was inspired by PVC roofing details, where laminated metal flashings have been used for edge terminations for decades.

Because the Tuff-Clad flashing is metal (not plastic), it holds its shape permanently. Because it's PVC-laminated, it can be heat-welded to the Tufdek membrane, creating a single continuous waterproof surface from the deck surface over the drip edge. No clip. No gap. No failure point.

Tuff-Clad comes in four colours (Sandalwood, Grey, White, and Black) to coordinate with your chosen Tufdek colour. It's exclusive to the Tufdek system and is included as standard on every Viewpoint installation.

Engineered for Our Climate

Calgary's climate is one of the hardest on decking in North America. Intense UV at high altitude, extreme freeze-thaw cycling (sometimes within the same day during a chinook), wind-driven rain, ice, and months of snow load.

Tufdek is tested to withstand temperatures from -40°F to 365°F and subjected to rigorous Atlas Weather Testing for UV longevity. The weft reinforcement prevents the expansion and contraction cracking that destroys lesser vinyl products in our climate, and the polycarbonate top coat resists the UV degradation that Calgary's 2,400+ hours of annual sunshine inflicts on unprotected surfaces.

This is exactly why we chose Tufdek as our premium product line. After years of installing various vinyl brands, Tufdek consistently outperforms everything else in Alberta conditions.