Get a plastic hammer and "peck" all over your deck, listening to the different
sounds of solid areas and soft areas, the tone difference is immediately
recognizable. Then map out your soft area with straight lines and square
corners. Then set your skill saw to about a 1/4 inch depth and cut out the
soft spot. Lift, pull, pry out the top layer. Clean out all rotted stuff, (and
good core in the cutout space), saturate the area with cpes. Replace removed
core with appropriate sized material, preferably nidacore, klegecell, or even
a good marine plywood. Soak again with cpes and fill all voids with thickend
epoxy and put your (now cleaned up) top plug back in place befor everything
sets up. It sounds a lot more difficult than it is. Drilling holes and suckin
on it won't work, been there, done that.
Get a plastic hammer and "peck" all over your deck, listening to the different
sounds of solid areas and soft areas, the tone difference is immediately
recognizable. Then map out your soft area with straight lines and square
corners. Then set your skill saw to about a 1/4 inch depth and cut out the
soft spot. Lift, pull, pry out the top layer. Clean out all rotted stuff, (and
good core in the cutout space), saturate the area with cpes. Replace removed
core with appropriate sized material, preferably nidacore, klegecell, or even
a good marine plywood. Soak again with cpes and fill all voids with thickend
epoxy and put your (now cleaned up) top plug back in place befor everything
sets up. It sounds a lot more difficult than it is. Drilling holes and suckin
on it won't work, been there, done that.