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"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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