Teak Deck - restoration

[spiller]

I have acquired an old boat with teak deck which requires restoring. It might just be saved with some good advice.

Should I saturate it in teak oil to give it some life, prior to any sanding.

Sikaflex has separated a bit in patches - scrape out and start again, or put in more to fill gaps?

 

[sailorman]

1/Should I saturate it in teak oil to give it some life, prior to any sanding

No it will clog the Glasspaper

2/ Sikaflex has separated a bit in patches - scrape out and start again, or put in more to fill gaps?

Rake out, prime edges, fit bond breaker & re-apply caulking

 

[robind]

Depends if the teak is laid onto a surface or not ie steel or ply or if the joint is through to the cabin below. Dont sand anything yet! and if the teak is onto a substrate like ply, steel or GRP rake out the damaged caulk and clean off the edges of the joint, re prime the edges with timber seal (or sikaflex own brand of the same) lay a strip of audio tape in the bottom to prevent the caulk sticking to the bottom (you only want the caulk to stick to the sides and fill the joints with caulk. Using a sharp chistle clean off the caulk from the surface and sand smooth, job done! A good tool to rake out the caulk can be made from an old file with the tang heated up and bent at 90 degrees and sharpened a little to accomodate the correct width and sharpness for caulk removal. hope this helps
regards Rob

 

[ccscott49]

To rake out the old caulking, if you are to do a whole deck, I would reccomend the purchase of a Fein multimaster, and the caulking removal attachment tool, it will pay for itself in time and stress, fabulous for other wooden boat jobs aswell, I dont know how I managed with out one.