I recently received the following as an email, presumably as a result
of participating in the earlier thread about decking.

> VERSATILE™ NON-SLIP, PLASTIC DECK TILES
> 
>  Available in: black, blue, yellow, cream,
> green, grey or terracotta
> NEW: BURGUNDY, DARK GREY, ROYAL BLUE 
> 300mm square x 12mm deep
> Sits on little "feet" allowing 9mm for drainage
> Non-slip, pliable, "soft step"
> Weather resistant
> Interlocking
> Can be cut to fit with a Stanley knife
> Made in the UK, hurrah!
> Order code: VERSATILE - please state colour
> £4.95 per tile + P&P £6.00 for up to 50 tiles
> 
> http://www.baddiethepirate.co.uk/baddiepages/versatile.htm

>From the photos on this site, this decking looks very like Dri-Dek
(see www. dri-dek.com).  Which is nice stuff, but I feel far too
pricey at five quid per (30 cm X 30 cm) tile.  The late lamented
Homebase tiles were about £10/m2 when I bought mine a few years back,
at a time when Dri-Dek was five quid per tile.  Plastic extrusions
like this are usually very inexpensive to make, so I feel that Dri-Dek
(and Versatile) are applying rather too much of a mark-up.

Has anyone found any less expensive candidates since the earlier
thread dried up?

Adrian

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