The Trex designer sells decking.
deckpro closes decks.

The Trex Deck Designer is built for homeowners shopping Trex decking, so contractors usually outgrow it at the quoting stage rather than the drawing stage. deckpro.studio is the contractor-side alternative: it designs across multiple decking brands and wood, sizes framing against the AWC DCA 6-2015 prescriptive tables, produces a full material takeoff priced with your own costs and markup, exports a blueprint sheet set, and gives you your own shareable designer link so a homeowner’s design lands in your pipeline.

Yes. decks.com — widely used as a neutral deck reference site — carries a “Copyright 2026 Trex Company, Inc.” notice in its own footer, so the category reference site and the brand site belong to the same company. That is worth knowing when you are comparing product recommendations or span guidance across the two.

Yes — Trex advertises that its designer produces a shopping list of materials, a plan you can take to a permitting office, and an estimated cost. The list is Trex’s own catalog and the estimate is a general figure, not your supplier pricing and markup. deckpro.studio produces a full order sheet across brands, including framing lumber, fasteners, and concrete, priced from the costs you enter.

Yes. deckpro.studio carries multi-brand decking catalogs — Trex, TimberTech, Fiberon, Deckorators and MoistureShield, plus dimensional wood species — using each manufacturer’s real collection and color names. A manufacturer’s own designer is, understandably, limited to that manufacturer’s products; deckpro.studio is independent and sells no decking.

A good spreadsheet can price a deck accurately — after you have done the framing math by hand, typed every line, and built the proposal somewhere else. It cannot show the homeowner the deck, it does not screen spans against a code table, and it does not tell you when a design has left prescriptive scope. The trade is your evenings against a subscription.