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Cleaned off the car trailer today in anticipation of picking up new 5/4 pressure treated deck boards . Basically I have two rectangular decks that are 18'3" and 18'4" x 16' . The boards run in the 18 foot direction . The current deck boards are a variety of 16' and smaller in random pattern . The joists are 16" on center .

I " think " I want to use 16' for all of it with every other board alternating left to right with just a short filler board . That way the majority of the seams are near the ends where there is less foot traffic. Is this the right way to go ? Or should the end pattern be more random ?

I figured I will need 80 sixteen footers and 40 eight footers , the connecting walkway between these two decks is ten boards wide by 20' so some will go there. Advice greatly appreciated as I will be purchasing soon.