Synthetic Teak Decking

[BrianH]

There is nothing like the real thing...

I see that "the real thing" to those with deep pockets but also good sense was a clean, uncluttered deck without a ponderous weight where it shouldn't be for best stability. I refer to "the world famous R36 'Blue Doublet' Owned by HRH The Princess Royal & Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence from new" since 1992, for sale here. As someone earlier on the thread put it "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Yes, it needs some cleaning up and TLC but infinitely better-looking than how the previous example will probably look in 20 years. But then, the present owner is likely to have moved on to the next highly-priced trophy piece while an unsuspecting new owner is finding out what a problem he has inherited.

 

[Mino]

Thanks for all the replies. Made for interesting reading. Think I will follow Guapa's lead and take a look at Marinedeck when I finally get around to sorting out decking.

BTW Guapa, have bookmarked your site: your blogs make for a good read.

 

[Koeketiene]

Thanks

 

[tcm]

Swedish summer, sun blazing down through clear clean air for 22 hours... Errrrrrrrrrrrr, what summer was that???????
I'm sure the heat in the Med during a hot summer day goes far beyond what a Swedish summers day can throw at my deck. In any case the point I was trying to make was teak is as hot as tekdek type decking..
Last year as I was extremely interested to find out and went traipsing around a marina in Strömstad and found a boat with it on, seemed just as warm..

I don’t agree teak and tekdek same heat coefficients - this was near-identical boat and his tekdek noticeably arg hot underfoot, mine (real teak) not so hot.

(Ok, in CCScottWorld mine is real teak but decorative bullsh!t 10mm stuff...)

 

[ccscott49]

I don’t agree teak and tekdek same heat coefficients - this was near-identical boat and his tekdek noticeably arg hot underfoot, mine (real teak) not so hot.

(Ok, in CCScottWorld mine is real teak but decorative bullsh!t 10mm stuff...)

Might be good teak though and I do love the look, doesnt matter to me what you have on your decks as long as I can have a dark rum and ginger beer!

 

[BrianH]

I don’t agree teak and tekdek same heat coefficients - this was near-identical boat and his tekdek noticeably arg hot underfoot, mine (real teak) not so hot.

I once owned a Trapper 500 in Italy and renovated the cockpit locker lids with Tek-Dek. I needed 1 sq meter and with the edging and adhesive thought the cost could not have been more if I had used real teak. However, it did look amazingly like real wood, including the fibrous graining, enough so that whenever anyone was told what it really was they did a double-take, hardly believing that it was not "the real thing".

Temperature-wise, it's difficult to compare with my present teak deck that I have to keep some deck shoes in the dog-house to don before being able to step on during the day (I am normally barefoot), but I do remember that it was downright dangerous to one's reproductive facilities to sit down on au naturel.

 

[wazza]

I once owned a Trapper 500 in Italy and renovated the cockpit locker lids with Tek-Dek. I needed 1 sq meter and with the edging and adhesive thought the cost could not have been more if I had used real teak. However, it did look amazingly like real wood, including the fibrous graining, enough so that whenever anyone was told what it really was they did a double-take, hardly believing that it was not "the real thing".

Temperature-wise, it's difficult to compare with my present teak deck that I have to keep some deck shoes in the dog-house to don before being able to step on during the day (I am normally barefoot), but I do remember that it was downright dangerous to one's reproductive facilities to sit down on au naturel.

Wow Barnac1e the tekdek looks like the dog's round one's...

 

[BrianH]

Wow Barnac1e the tekdek looks like the dog's round one's...

Gee, thanks ....

Not only did it look like teak wood, it could be worked the same way, with saw and sander. But it suffered from some of the same problems as the original - expensive, heavy and burningly hot in the Mediterranean sun. I wouldn't use it again.