pyrojames
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Don't scrub them! Let them go silve/grey. As long as you sluice them with salt water each time you are on board they should last 20 years.
Teak deck replacement question
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Chris_Robb
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Don't scrub them! Let them go silve/grey. As long as you sluice them with salt water each time you are on board they should last 20 years.
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I don't scrub them - give them a spray down with MMC (green slime killer) and wash off with salt water.
Don't scrub them! Let them go silve/grey. As long as you sluice them with salt water each time you are on board they should last 20 years.
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I don't scrub them - give them a spray down with MMC (green slime killer) and wash off with salt water.
LadyJessie
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I have edited your post, just to illoustrate a few cases where you contadict yourself, re "hot feet"!
[/ QUOTE ]I did not express myself very well. What I meant to say was that I do not agree with the statement "teak decks get too hot in the Med'. That is not my experience. I would not like to have anything else to walk on. Agree with post above that fibreglass has a higher heat conduit effect than teak, thick teak that is. You might have had the misfortune to 'hop around' on the veneer type 'teak decks', that is something else.
I have edited your post, just to illoustrate a few cases where you contadict yourself, re "hot feet"!
[/ QUOTE ]I did not express myself very well. What I meant to say was that I do not agree with the statement "teak decks get too hot in the Med'. That is not my experience. I would not like to have anything else to walk on. Agree with post above that fibreglass has a higher heat conduit effect than teak, thick teak that is. You might have had the misfortune to 'hop around' on the veneer type 'teak decks', that is something else.
pcatterall
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Insulation? ....yes but teak will absorb the heat while white plastic just reflects it off.
30boat
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And fiberglass decks are nearly always of balsa sandwich construction.Very good for insulation.
FAITIRA
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Insulation? ....yes but teak will absorb the heat while white plastic just reflects it off.
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Exactly!
Insulation? ....yes but teak will absorb the heat while white plastic just reflects it off.
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Exactly!
Twister_Ken
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Having been traumatised by teak deck replacement I have no wish to enter the discussion, except to inject into it the fact that teak, like all timber, is an effective thermal insulator. Whilst it will undoubtedly absorb more heat than a white deck, it will not transmit all that heat into the substrate.
Of course, you could always paint your teak white. Or better still, chromium plate it.
Of course, you could always paint your teak white. Or better still, chromium plate it.
LadyJessie
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Thanks for that important fact Twister_Ken. Having spent a (too) large part of my life north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden where all houses are timber; I kind of had already guessed that the thermal insulation qualities of wood is very good.