wood floor in power boat? when is it time to change?
"Chris" wrote
some of the screws essentially came right out of the floor
I'm no expert on this stuff, but here's my two cents: The screws probably
wouldn't have pulled out easily unless the wood around them was rotten.
Marine plywood doesn't have any inherent rot resistance of its own; they
typically get that from coating it with a resin of some type. When you put
screw holes in a piece of coated wood, you provide a path through the
protective layer and water can wick in and set you up for rot. (Wood rot,
btw, is caused by wood-eating fungi thingies that are always present in wood
and which tend to come to life when they get a drink of water. Pressure
treated wood works by infusing a poison into the wood that kills the little
buggers off.) If you're lucky, the rot will be confined to a small area
around the screws and you'll be able to splice in some new wood or use some
kind of filler designed for this purpose to repair it.
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