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Old 09-18-2017, 05:31 PM   #1
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Repairing the framing under the teak deck aft

I have an album setup.
This is a job I wanted to do couple years ago. I did the starboard side 2 years ago, and it has been good.
I am using PT lumber, has very few knots.
I have done extensive rebuilding on this boat, and anywhere structural I used PT SYP wood, carefully selected.

Another good product is PL Premium Polyurethane CA.
Sometimes I mix it with sawdust as a filler.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ePYqVq5nobr2VNcg1



This structure is incredibly strong when in good condition. It is a solid 6 inches thick in width, and has a curve. Then 3/4 plywood lays down into the groove formed by the support piece not shown here. And teak boards attach to the top.
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Old 09-18-2017, 09:05 PM   #2
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I have an album setup.
This is a job I wanted to do couple years ago. I did the starboard side 2 years ago, and it has been good.
I am using PT lumber, has very few knots.
I have done extensive rebuilding on this boat, and anywhere structural I used PT SYP wood, carefully selected.

Another good product is PL Premium Polyurethane CA.
Sometimes I mix it with sawdust as a filler.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ePYqVq5nobr2VNcg1



This structure is incredibly strong when in good condition. It is a solid 6 inches thick in width, and has a curve. Then 3/4 plywood lays down into the groove formed by the support piece not shown here. And teak boards attach to the top.
Looks plenty strong
Be aware many products such as 5200 or others do not playing well with PT wood
While your repair may not rot, it will not retaine a seal with any caulk that you use.
It may take a few years but the caulk/sealnt will fail notching will stick To PT wood!
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Old 09-19-2017, 01:38 AM   #3
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As above certainly looks like good repair, how ever there are some possible issues when using Pressure treated wood as

1) The manufacturing process can only drive the chemicals products so deep. You can clearly see this when you look at an end-cut and why all manufacturers specify that you treat end-cuts with preservative.and the base timber used for the PT is usually a lower grade timber in the first place,
2) Depending on the chemicals used in the treatment it is possible to play havoc with the fasteners hence why 316 SS is the preferred chose or min 304 SS
3)Moisture levels need to be 12% or less to achieve full strength with an epoxy bond, and many PT treated woods are way higher than this.Even air drying for a year many will not achieve this figure.

Saying all that, we all have budget constraints and want to get out on the water and so do our best within our resources. I'm not against a quick, and cheaper boat repair but they must be held to a different standard than those built with longevity in mind.

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Old 09-19-2017, 05:04 AM   #4
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All the repairs are screwed, a few are glued.
The problem with treated wood and glues is helped if the wood surface to be glued is abraded-roughened up. Yes epoxy does not work as well as the polyurethane glues on PT wood.
Maybe also because it is wetter. I let this dry a few days before cutting.

The earlier repairs were made using the old arsenic formula of PT wood. Can't easily buy anymore. I also sealed the end grains with paint of that poly glue.

There is no good points to using wood that will rot, your wasting your time. This rim wood did rot because the teak seals over the decades fails. They used inferior techniques on a lot of wood boat constructions. Another bad choice is bronze or brass screws above the waterline, They eventually corrode and break. All my SS screws have held great and endured so far.

Here I sealed the surface of the new wood with that PL slathered on, Then to fill completely, where the frame slots are mixed in some sawdust. It swells up as it cures and does interlock these parts. Since it is on a cut surface it will stick well to this wood. Plus make a durable water seal.

The first picture, I painted the outer plank with white water based exterior zinsser primer.
That will make it easier to separate that plank if it ever needs to be removed since I glued over the top to seal this structure. I did not glue the 2 inch rim wood pieces to each other or to the outer wood hull and frames. Just SS screws, 2 inch square drive deck screws.
All these wood parts I recut on my table saw, they were cut to shape from 2x8 and 2x10 PT wood.

So you have a metal edge on 1.5" rubrail, 1" mahogany plank, two 1" rim wood pieces, then a 1.5 inch shelf for the plywood. That is 6 inches solid wood, not counting the plywood.



The slope angle for the plywood is 5 degrees. So the water drains away. Same angle needed to be cut for the rim wood. A handy tool is a degree checker I got from HDepot cheap. Has a swinging needle.

Also there was not enough room to drive those screws with my drill.
So I predrilled the holes just through the parts to be attached. Then ran them home using a 1/4 inch drive ratchet and socket with the square drive bit. You can get some screws in TORX drive, might be a little better to prevent head stripping.
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Old 09-19-2017, 06:51 PM   #5
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I am fixing an error that EggHarbor made almost 50 years ago.
The mahogany plywood support piece that holds up the rear deck, a worker cut it at a 10* angle when should have been 5* angle.
Then they screwed the plywood on top this and it pulled this support piece away from the aft cabin door area creating a large ugly gap.

I was finally able to see what they did when I took this apart. I ran a 4 " long 5/16 SS lag bolt to pull it into the proper position. And I fixed the rotted edge of the cabin here.

Took 3 pieces glued and screwed on. First piece is mahogany, second is white oak, third will be white oak. This is covered by another piece of mahogany on the inside so the oak wont be seen. So now the edge should be more durable.

And , the support piece was screwed on too low. It will need to glue on a shim to raise it and compensate 5* for the bad cut angle.

This oak had sat outside for years doing nothing exposed to the weather and it is still solid super stiff and stronger than mahogany. Just needed a little clean up recutting on the tablesaw to get it to fit.



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Old 09-19-2017, 06:52 PM   #6
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View from the other side. Shows the gap gone, was 1/4" wide where cabin side met the rear door are piece, whatever that is called.
I do recall Egg Harbor had put a little filler piece to hide it. But it also caused issues with the cabin side not being totally straight.
So I am real happy to see it like it should be now.

Amazing how even old wood can be twisted back into position. It took me hours today to fit those little glued in wood pieces into place properly.


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I have a reasonable amount of faith in PT lumber and plywood. The three problems are: when you buy it, it's sopping wet, 2, they only pressure treat junky young yellow pine (unless you pay dearly for your specified lumber to be 'specially pressure treated), and 3, the chemicals used for all lumber except for some posts (4x4, 4x6, and maybe 6x6) are 'not suitable for ground contact' (means that the new chemicals are less poisonous than the good old Copper Arsenate).

Pick your lumber carefully; you can be successful even at the Home Despot. Buy early and let it dry just like green lumber; one year per inch of thickness. When dry, it glues perfectly adequately with Titebond II and epoxy resin. Polyester resin really does not bond well with wood, despite its' ubiquity in our TTs. Fasten as well as glue, bearing in mind that some PT-ing chemicals are tough on fasteners (use galvanized, coated 'Deck Screws', or stainless steel).
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Yes, I let it dry for 4 days outside, but not in the sun.
I found 3 nice pieces, but I had rejected 10, too many knots.
In the larger sizes you may find better boards.
For my rim parts, I cut them out of a 2x8x8. First split in half at a 5* angle, the ripped to a 1" width.

The plywood supports I used 2x6x10, same way split in half but left wide.

Wood boats have curves, they are not straight, so thinner pieces can be bent to the proper shape. Otherwise you have to grind to fit.

I sealed the end grain either with paint or adhesive. When this is done, it is going to stay dry under the plywood. I plan to put a skim coat of the PL adhesive on top of the PT plywood, then a coat of white paint.

Eventually I will reattach the teak.

I also need to tear off the aft teak covering boards and replace the plywood under them too. These plywood pieces are not that wide but do add some stiffness, otherwise I would use wide PT 3/4 boards.

The original rim wood was mahogany nailed to the framing with what looks like monel nails.
I reused those nails attaching the short interframe support parts that go between the outer plank and the first rim wood part. They add strength if something hits the side of the hull.

Back in 2006, I had this entire planking side off the boat down to the chine, and replaced the frames with laminated PT wood glued together.

Titebond 3 is good glue even for teak wood. And so is the PL premium polyurethane CA. You can build thicker layers mixing with sawdust. It will swell so you can force it back down with plastic HDPE sheet (cereal bags ) or a putty knife, or just grind it when it gets hard and fill again. Doing this actually becomes a structural repair.
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Old 09-21-2017, 06:19 PM   #9
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It was easier to build up the plywood support using glue and sawdust since it tapered to nothing at the forward plywood deck edge and is about 1/4 " too low at the other end of the support.

And I found out it was supposed to be cut a 10* this support, so I recut the new wood to 10*.
The cabin side angles in 5* so it works out. Nothing on a boat is straight. 10 -5 = 5* slope then for the decking.

The problem was they mounted it 1/4 inch too low on the mahogany cabin side plank at this spot, then it rode up to the transom, so it was never straight. I now will have the teak angling at a proper 5* so it drains to the gunwale. Somehow the cabin mahogany side plank must have just warped, and it was never properly secured which the bolt does fix.

I noticed this side of the cabin is longer than the other side, and the worker just screwed the ply support piece aligned to the bottom of the cabin side.



And I got the last edge piece on the cabin plank.
This marina is very nice quiet place, never see anyone here after labor day.
I feel like I have a private slip.
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I bought the 3/4 plywood from Treated lumber outlet, and is nice looking and dry and flat. It is rated for ground contact UC4A. Price was $35.

Some of the new treatments are rated for ground contact.
http://www.deckmagazine.com/design-c...-wood-update_o

Treated Lumber outlet, all is ground contact using UC4A micronized copper azole.

Lowes has both ground and non ground contact treated woods.
The structural wood I used from Lowes is EL2 treated and it stabilizes the wood so less likely to warp.
http://treatedwood.com/uploads/Ecolife.pdf
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Old 09-22-2017, 09:10 AM   #11
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Treated Ply sheet from Treated Lumber Outlet rated ground contact.
Notice how nice it looks
Edge is tight glued, not falling to pieces, not soaking wet.
Will be perfect to lay under the teak.

This nice sheet was third down from the top of pile.



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Nice work, sdowney! And thanks for the PT source.
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Old 09-22-2017, 05:31 PM   #13
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Got it finally fit the last ply support board. Was complicated by them not cutting things right long ago. Had to trim bottom edge of the cabin side, was too long by about 1/4". To make things look and feel right, everything has to be cut and fit right, otherwise it wont be right.

Also glued the back corner. The side plywood will stop about 10 inches before the back corner. The rear plywood goes across the entire back of the boat into each back corner.

White paper is the pattern to cut.


Rear corner


Blue tape helps form the glue to shape


Sawblade makes a great flattener scraper. Easier than belt sanding as my belt is worn out, plus I can get into tight corners. After scraping and hand block sanding smoother, I recoated with a flash layer of PL sealing the entire surface including the ply support so no water can weep in.



Another view of the rear corner. It does fit pretty well the plywood, but may need some filling on top the plywood to smooth the flow.



after finishing the side, I will have to strip the rear teak to fix the plywood under there too.
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Old 09-26-2017, 05:54 AM   #14
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Got the ply screwed down, will seal it to surrounding structure later.
I painted the edges with primer.

Gluing on this inner piece of mahogany to the cabin side. A piece of SS trim goes on top later. Been a long time since this was here.


Showing how they placed these ply sheets. Next job will be to work on this replacing the plywood under these rear covering boards, the ply curves, the back top surface is not flat.


Laying in some glue with sawdust to both seal and create the correct fit as this ply support piece was 1/4 inch too low from OEM.



Done
I ran some long screws in here. Then cut the heads and used these to help ensure where these 2 plywood sheets meet, there wont be coming loose. Just extra insurance. It would be too hard to cut in and slide the new plywood under this double layer of plywood that makes up the deck forward here of the teak, so a compromise was struck. The span between the ply supports is only 6 inches. Drilled 3 holes in new sheet, put glue in screw holes and whacked plywood home. It was easy to align simply hit plywood against screws marked the wood where holes were drilled.



It might help, can't hurt!
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Showing the PT wood I replaced in 2006 on the other side, in fine shape, not degraded at all. Two white pieces are new wood.


I sanded the surface to clean up the dirt and such. I scraped the mahogany top planking edge to clean wood, treated with oxalic acid. Then smeared in some Titebond 3 glue.
I will paint, then fill with some PL those frame pockets, then paint again on top, or some such method.



Otherside sealed and painted with primer.
You can see the ends of this degraded mahogany plywood support for the back teak decking.
I found out this board curves in 3 directions, it humps up in the middle, has a concave curve, AND the bottom edge twists forward about 5*



I have created two angular triangular brackets from wood for the inside corners to support the inner plywood support rails. Basically 2 2x6 pieces glued together, then ripped to 2.75" tall matching the height of the rails.
Then holding them in position, determined the proper angles to be achieved to fit well to the plywood support rails. Ripped from straight wood, glued on the angular edges, side edge is 15*, front edge is 3* and this fits well the space matching the plywood rails.

Will fit them in tomorrow. the old rear plywood still has enough left to aid in me designing the new ply support piece. Plan to cut some angled pieces that but up to it to help in making the new rail fit as it should.
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Have the corner rail support blocks installed. These were difficult to make, every face has a differing angle.
And that rotting mahogany rear plywood support rail is off.
And those posts need replacing.







I screwed 5 angled guide blocks to the old plywood underneath to aid in positioning the new rail. New rail will be cut on a curve then split in half to make the concave bend inward, so the old ply stays on till the new support is fit into place.
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Looking good!
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Looking good!
Thanks, I now can envision the finishing of this project in the next week, except for putting the teak back on.
the original construction lasted for 47 years, this repair should outlive my grand kids. Since 1998, I have yet to see any of my PT wood repairs rot or degrade in the slightest on this boat. The wood boat fanatics do not like using PT wood. But I carefully select what I use.

The repair feels really solid and tough. Total time so far is 2 weeks. one nice thing, almost no one comes to this marina after labor day, so I almost never see anyone, so I disturb no one making noise with saws, etc..., and don't have to hear negative commentary.

But the few that do see me working on it, it is like they say too much work, etc...But I know what I am capable of repair wise.
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Very nice woodwork. Trust me I know this is not easy to do. Keep up the good work sdowney .
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Have the starboard side rear corner mostly done. Need to and grind down to the proper shape.

In 2001 when I replaced the transom frame and wood, I did not desire to open up the teak decking. So I never could properly finish and seal the upper corners. Now I have.

Cut and fit a filler piece on top the too short inner corner post.



Cut the larger filler piece that also covers the rails and the corner post.



Glued in everything sealed, the rear plywood deck fits into this corner.
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