Paint for sealing teak decks

[mansellm92]

Anybody recommend a paint for sealing those irritating deck leaks, similar to Ceolan but cheaper ? Should have high elasticity, be UV resistant etc

 

[Tin Tin]

Anybody recommend a paint for sealing those irritating deck leaks, similar to Ceolan but cheaper ? Should have high elasticity, be UV resistant etc

Why would you paint over a teak deck?
Especially if there's a history of leaks - all you'd be doing is trapping the humidity underneath.
I'm not sure that's a good idea.

 

[rich]

Something like this might do the job,

Please let me know if it works





http://www.protectakote.co.uk/marine.htm

 

[bromleybysea]

Teak Decks

Frankly, I doubt if anything would work in the long term as the deck will be subject to so much movement that it will eventually crack anything applied to it. The repair and maintenance of old teak decks has been the subject of much discussion on these fora. For an account of trying, and failing, to seal a teak deck with Coelan look here http://homepage.hispeed.ch/bhny/Teakdeck.htm His eventual fix, replacing screws with plugs epoxied into the sub-deck and running thin epoxy into the seams to fill up voids, is one I have tried, and it seems to work.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Anybody recommend a paint for sealing those irritating deck leaks, similar to Ceolan but cheaper ? Should have high elasticity, be UV resistant etc

Please say you were only joking and you're not really going to paint teak decks !!

 

[snowleopard]

This stuff is pretty effective.

 

[Tin Tin]

This stuff is pretty effective.

First hand experience?
Almost seems too good to be true.

 

[Twister_Ken]

If you have a creeping crack it works well. Used it on a crack in the forehatch acrylic (until I reglazed the hatch during the winter). Interesting coz you could see it creeping through the crack (literally) and doing exactly what the good Captain designed it to do.

But using it on an entire deck would require a tanker full of the stuff.

However it looks and feels like a thinned version of PVA (Unibond, etc) so maybe that's the answer - Unibond the deck.

 

[bromleybysea]

I had the same thoughts- it might be useful to seal leaky decks but the cost is prohibitive. I don’t think it’s the same as Unibond, apart from anything else, Unibond PVA is not waterproof. The date sheets say;

Capt. Tolly’s- An aqueous dispersion of styrene – acrylic acid ester copolymer

Unibond- Water based dispersion of a homopolymer of vinyl acetate

But I’m certainly not a chemist. No doubt one will be along to tell us what it all means.

I did a Google on the recipe for Capt. Tolly and it seems to be a widely manufactured base medium so I guess it might be available by the tanker-load, but probably not in smaller quantities!