"goaway" ...
Time has come to redo once again the deck outside the house. I have used
and hated :

CCA: shrank split and looks nasty by the fifth year
Composite: Stains, supports mold , does not come clean(power washer,
chemicals etc)
Cedar: Nice and soft, always love to pull the soft breakable splinters out

I want to see if anyone has used IPE and have had it in place more than
two years. I expect to use a water sealer on it. And yes IPE seems
expensive, but so is replacing the decking every five years or so.

Thanks

Paul

I did an ipe (pau lope) pergola about ten years ago. It aged to a nice
silver gray. At the time nobody had a sealer product for that wood.
Structurally it is still very solid. Poorly stored scraps show no rot,
fungus or instability.
Expect to predrill and countersink everything. There is no give in the wood.
Zero.
Expect to buy new bits and blades because ipe dulls tools. You could almost
make edge tools out of it. It will bite, be careful.
Expect very dense wood (heavy timbers).
I don't look forward to working with the wood again, but I would.
Yes, I would expect a very long life out of an ipe deck.

YMMV,
Dean