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Spent the afternoon replacing my old worn out stock (2005) decking with new Faux Teak Seadek, it turned out really well!
First I had to go get the boat from the storage yard. Upon arrival I had to remove the tarp which I'd discovered a couple of weeks ago had completely disintegrated over the winter. So the boat is FILTHY!!! Oh Joy!
This is a photo of the deck before I began...
The first step was to rip up the old decking. It came up pretty easily. Some parts left more glue and residual bits of decking than others.
Here is a video of pulling up the old decking:
I then took acetate and worked on a small section, but found it didn't come up well as the black decking bits were preventing the acetate from getting to the glue, so I switched to a different method. Using a spackling tool, I scraped the old decking off while using a shop vac to vaccum it up. Worked great. Here is a video of me doing that:
I then washed the deck with soap and water and a magic eraser. That left it looking like this:
Then, I used the acetate to clean up any last bits of glue, which left it like this:
And finally I laid down the new Seadek. That was easier than I expected. The only tricky parts were the really big pieces. For those, I got the piece in the right position, kneeled on it, and peeled back part the backing off one end of the section, and ripped the paper backing off. Then I layed down that end and pressed it into place. Then got off the piece, raised the end I was kneeling on, removing the remaining backing and pressed it down. Worked great. Here is the final result:
I have some video of pulling the old material off, and scraping the bits off, but it is taking forever to upload, so I'll add that later.
We've been really happy with the end result. It has been on for over a year now, and is holding up really well.
First I had to go get the boat from the storage yard. Upon arrival I had to remove the tarp which I'd discovered a couple of weeks ago had completely disintegrated over the winter. So the boat is FILTHY!!! Oh Joy!
This is a photo of the deck before I began...
The first step was to rip up the old decking. It came up pretty easily. Some parts left more glue and residual bits of decking than others.
Here is a video of pulling up the old decking:
I then took acetate and worked on a small section, but found it didn't come up well as the black decking bits were preventing the acetate from getting to the glue, so I switched to a different method. Using a spackling tool, I scraped the old decking off while using a shop vac to vaccum it up. Worked great. Here is a video of me doing that:
I then washed the deck with soap and water and a magic eraser. That left it looking like this:
Then, I used the acetate to clean up any last bits of glue, which left it like this:
And finally I laid down the new Seadek. That was easier than I expected. The only tricky parts were the really big pieces. For those, I got the piece in the right position, kneeled on it, and peeled back part the backing off one end of the section, and ripped the paper backing off. Then I layed down that end and pressed it into place. Then got off the piece, raised the end I was kneeling on, removing the remaining backing and pressed it down. Worked great. Here is the final result:
I have some video of pulling the old material off, and scraping the bits off, but it is taking forever to upload, so I'll add that later.
We've been really happy with the end result. It has been on for over a year now, and is holding up really well.
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