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I have repaired part of my teak deck, the teak is ok but the ply underneath had perished, I am about to fill the gaps in the teak with sikoflex, but at ten quid a tube i am looking for an alternative.

I was watching The cutty sark on TV last night and i noticed the were filling their gaps with hot glue,could i do this and would it be cheaper? i cant think that it would cost much for a lump of glue.

Any comments from peps who have actualy done this?
 
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chrishelen said:
I have repaired part of my teak deck, the teak is ok but the ply underneath had perished, I am about to fill the gaps in the teak with sikoflex, but at ten quid a tube i am looking for an alternative.

I was watching The cutty sark on TV last night and i noticed the were filling their gaps with hot glue,could i do this and would it be cheaper? i cant think that it would cost much for a lump of glue.

Any comments from peps who have actualy done this?
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i think it would have been pitch they were using, not suitable for a yacht
 
I've lifted my teak deck after repeated caulking failures and replaced that and the underlying ply substrate. Tell us more about the boat. If this is a wooden boat, the fact that the underlying ply has perished is a big warning bell as the same damage could have occurred to the beams and half beams and we are talking structural here. Deck needs to be lifted and the ply replaced. For me the reason for failure was that the teak had been fastened with steel screws and after 40 years some had let go. The effect of that was that there was too much movement and whilst I could recaulk the movement whilst the eye could not see it meant that the caulking to wood joint soon broke down and leaks started again. Cutty Sark was using the traditional hot pitch. It is playing with fire and hot things but if you have a reasonable level of skills it should be ok. Of course you can use that but it does set hard and if like me you have too much movement you may be asking too much of it. I would be asking myself about the damage underneath. How is the teak fixed?
 
chrishelen said:
I was watching The cutty sark on TV last night and i noticed the were filling their gaps with hot glue,could i do this and would it be cheaper? i cant think that it would cost much for a lump of glue.
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They were only using bitumen on the lower deck where they use the same construction as the original for historical purposes. On the weather deck they used the modern technique of layers of ply (two from memory) glued together with no fastenings and then decorative teak on top with Sika type caulking. You may recall that the chairman said they agonised over using a modern deck but decided that it had to last so sacrificed authenticity for practicality.
 
Thanks for replys,to be more clear, its a plastic boat with plastic decks, ontop of the plastic deck is 1/4inch ply ontop of the ply is teak strips screwed and pluged to the ply, only in the places where the plugs have moved and water got in have i had to repair, the rest of the deck is sound, two years ago i repaired part of the foredeck that had lifted slightly and was dismayed at the waste of sika over the egdes of the teak strips when paying the seams.
 
Daveys sell Jeffrey Marine Glue for paying deck seams. Not sure whether it comes out cheaper than sika but it's a pitch style product. I recall that Arbo did a suitable product for deck seams.
 
tillergirl said:
Daveys sell Jeffrey Marine Glue for paying deck seams. Not sure whether it comes out cheaper than sika but it's a pitch style product. I recall that Arbo did a suitable product for deck seams.
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Thanks,got to be worth a call,Sika imho is so overpriced for what it is.
 
Aternatively try Saba sealants (Seal One) cheaper than Sika IIRC, and much easier to apply. Jeffreys is OK, but not very flexible, and very messy to apply. Liable to separate from the seams if you have any movement at all.
 
Have you considered using the 600 ML sausages with a sausage gun?

In oz I can buy sikaflex 11FC for $10.80 AUD and a gun for $10.00 AUD.
This aslo saves a lot of time swapping and loading tiny tubes, the large gun is also much easier to control.

Good luck and fair winds. :)
 
chrishelen said:
Thanks,got to be worth a call,Sika imho is so overpriced for what it is.
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Just a tip from somebody who has used jeffries extensively. DONT use the stuff, sika or its equivalent is far superior. Jeffries was good in its day, its day has long gone.
 
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