.....Ken wrote:

Have you considered glueing a new teak deck (3/16" thick strips) on top of
the old one ?


My decks are in pretty good shape. The teak is plenty thick and there
are no problems, except for the 2000+ screw holes in the deck.

Over the years some screws have worked loose. When the deck is flooded
some water finds its way below the wood and into the screw holes.

I have fiberglass decks with a plywood core, typical construction.
Fortunately the wood core is all teak, so rot may not be a problem.

The water soaks the wood and washes out the glue, then eventually finds
it's way through the inside layer of glass and leaks coffee colored
water. Cold wood tea.

I've been draining these voids, finding the wet screw and injecting
epoxy into the screw hole, then redrilling and putting the old screw
back. Every screw in the deck is 7/8, so no long ones have been added.

I figure that I'm in for a lifetime of fixing little leaks unless those
2000+ screws go away.

When it stops raining maybe I'll change my mind.