Thanks to all for your advise. As a note to any that will be doing this project here is what we have come across so far. Since we had removed the caulking before thinking that we re-caulking the teak came up easy after removing 576 screws. We used a hammer and crow bar and the stripe came up easy. Once up the nasty black caulking is the next issue to deal with. So of ours was still soft and some hard as a rock. The first day we took steel brushes and did 1/4 of the deck to remove all the mess. Second day thanks George the boat across from us we used a heat gun and the steel brushes. Much much easier. We only found one small soft spot so we feel lucky. Our plans are now to fill all the drilled out screw holes, sand the decks, paint the smooth area and then tape and paint nonskid on the diamond pattern area. We did find the decking under the teak not useable and it is not a solid pattern. So void areas and not sure we could ever match the pattern. Good luck to those that said you paln on doing this soon. We have found that our deck now looks much bigger. C & C