Laying a new Teak deck

[pmagowan]

I don’t know what is wrong with the photos! This site is buggy on my phone.

As I explained re the sabadeck it is fine for sticking things down on the flat. You can curve the planks gently on the same plane as the deck without any problem. THe issue is where the planks have residual spring back in them such as they are continually trying to lift off the deck. This only affected us in the compound curve of the lazarette locker. THE Saba seem a to work best in sheer bit under tension it gives after a few days

There was no depth of Teak left in many places hence why we did the job

 

[Iain C]

Superb job, well done. You have serious balls to take a prybar to thousands of quid's worth of teak...fair play to you!!!

 

[sailaboutvic]

Well done taken on a job that big , I only did the back step last year and that alone was a pain but in the end well worth doing , which I sure you will fine in the end .

 

[pmagowan]

Thanks, I think I have sorted the pictures now. Bit of a pain getting lots of pictures up on this forum and for some reason the whole forum has got very buggy on an iphone.
It was a big enough task but, to be honest, most of the work was in the prep. Getting a cover on so that we could work in the dry and relative heat was key. Then you just have to accept that the process will be messy and cause some damage to the gelcoat. We knew that there would likely be some water penetration to the core and so it needed done. In the end the core (balsa) had held up relatively well and only small sections needed replaced. Where it was local to a screw we used a hole cutter and then an alan key in a drill to remove the dead balsa. Then it was simply a matter of filling it with new core and laying up some grp. The whole thing feels a lot stronger now.

Not cheap as the teak was 12mm but my mother had bought a dozen lab benches for a £100 that had been removed from a university and they were all good old teak so we saved quite a bit on the larger pieces.

 

[Zing]

Thanks, I think I have sorted the pictures now. Bit of a pain getting lots of pictures up on this forum and for some reason the whole forum has got very buggy on an iphone.
It was a big enough task but, to be honest, most of the work was in the prep. Getting a cover on so that we could work in the dry and relative heat was key. Then you just have to accept that the process will be messy and cause some damage to the gelcoat. We knew that there would likely be some water penetration to the core and so it needed done. In the end the core (balsa) had held up relatively well and only small sections needed replaced. Where it was local to a screw we used a hole cutter and then an alan key in a drill to remove the dead balsa. Then it was simply a matter of filling it with new core and laying up some grp. The whole thing feels a lot stronger now.

Not cheap as the teak was 12mm but my mother had bought a dozen lab benches for a £100 that had been removed from a university and they were all good old teak so we saved quite a bit on the larger pieces.

How did it work out in numbers? Material cost/m2 and time per m2? Thanks.

 

[pmagowan]

I think it was about £3k in materials but we had some of our own Teak already. About 20 days of solid work but the. That includes removing hardware, repairing balsa core and sub deck and generally fixing everything to ‘as-new’ conditions.

 

[Zing]

Well done. A bargain price and little time really. Commercial quotes I’ve had are near £50 per sq ft all inc.