Is EVA Foam Teak any good, the result after a years use.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- You can buy stick on EVA Foam Teak Decking from Ebay, Amazon and various other suppliers. It's quite cheap. But is it any good ?. I fitted some to the Bridge Deck on Zephyr IV last year so it's had a busy year of use since then. How did it fare under proper sailing conditions ?. Watch this video and find out !
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This stuff is great. I have this exact same product on a large paddle board in Florida that’s been stored outside uncovered for 3 years now, and still looks like new. I experienced no issues with build-up in the grooves like you were concerned about. It’s very easy to clean & very durable. Only marks on it with hard use are a few very small puncture marks from a very angry mackerel 😅
It does seem to wear well. I just wish they'd make a version where the gaps are filled. Wow ! Dangerous Angry Mackerel :-)
this is a really good idea. I ve just bought the eva decking and throught the depressions between the "wood planks"would tear easily or collect dirt..this is a very good solution..thanks for the upload sir!
Hi Roger, glad it was of some use. It takes a long time to add the seams but it does appear to work. There's a longer, more detailed video that I did a year earlier, which might be of interest too - th-cam.com/video/47wt76_537A/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the update Dave! Much appreciated! I will now have a bash at replacing my Griffon’s cockpit teak seating using this approach !
Ah Max, good to see you've found the video, I pretty much did it for you :-) I've just done a check on renting/hiring a motorised sealant gun and found someone who will hire one for £22 a day. They cost anything from £100 - £400. As always google is your friend when finding someone. BTW, another tip. Have a small container of water with a few drop of Fairy liquid. If you dip your finger in that you can smooth any irregularities after you've pushed the seam down with a scraper. I wish I'd known that when I did mine, it would be a bit neater :-) Let me know how you get on Max ... Dave
Just a handy hint if you ate struggling with sealant then popping it into a bucket of hot water before hand loosens it up lovely...
Hi Chris, thanks for the tip. I did warm the tubes but it was still hard work :-(
check out the earlier video - th-cam.com/video/47wt76_537A/w-d-xo.html
I’ve used in on 2 of my boats. I even got creative and did edging and trimming with a very sharp blade and yes you can wash blood off of it. Personally I love the stuff.
If the Chinese manufacturer could sort the channels out, maybe make the backing with ridges so the imitation teak fitted between them, it would be the bees knees.
Very impressed with you caulking the flex decking. Looks wonderful as well as keeping the crud out. Very nicely done 😊
Thank you Iain. It was hard work using an ordinary sealant gun. There is a follow up video on the stocks. For some reason the caulking material started breaking down and getting sticky. I may have spilt some paint thinner on it, whilst renovating Zephyr IV's deck. Any way I dug it out and re-caulked it, using a power gun. So much easier. The EVA foam is still ok though.
Yes, I can imagine doing that length of caulking with a manual gun would give you a degree of hand ache, plus I guess a power gun would provide a more continuous flow @@davesailing. Sad about having to re-do it as it looked wonderful
Schitterend resultaat. De kosten vallen inderdaad mee. Ik ga het proberen op mijn Bavaria 38-3!
Bedankt voor de tips!
Heel graag gedaan.
Ik hoop dat het goed gaat. Een gemotoriseerd kitpistool is een must voor alles dat groter is dan het gebied dat ik heb gedaan.
Pas op.. Dave
Appreciate update as have been pondering using this product in some places on my yacht, was especially encouraged after watching your first video. Thanks
You're very welcome, I hope you get a positive result if you bite the bullet and try it. Thanks for all your comments.. Dave
Going to have to do this. I went with Cork on my refit 5 years ago and on the whole it still looks great but the seabirds have pecked at it in places so it has bits missing! I think they have been using it as nesting material!
I used it with custom boarding steps and it looks great, but a sea bird of some kind seems to like clawing at it, unfortunately. There are hundreds of little cuts in it now. I think the PVA stuff is a lot harder and would hold up better than the EVA foam.
I guess it's a situation where you get what you pay for. The PVA equivalent would be quite a bit more expensive I think. I couldn't find anyone in the UK who would sell me the small piece I needed without installing it too. I found a company in Europe who would sell me a piece for about £80 but wanted £120 for carriage. Thanks for your comment, Dave
If you heat the sealant before applying it it’s much easier to squeeze.
Ah, you need to look at the first video where I show, in depth, how I went about installing the section of bridge deck. There you'll see that the caulking tubes were stored in a bucket of hot water for an hour before being extruded. I didn't find it made a huge difference but that was what was recommended 😅
Thank you sir ! This helped a lot
You're welcome Ryan, nice to help a fellow mariner out. You would make me very happy if you subscribed too 🙂
Great update! Another job well done. Do you think having the canopy above helps moderate the sun affect? Your cabin looks delightfully comfortable.
Hi Sally, it's not quite as neat as I would like but infinitely better than the weatherbeaten and rotten Teak faced ply that was there before. The canopy definitely helps but I don't think Black is a good choice for a deck. The interior is nice, a bit careworn in places but I'm gradually bringing it up to scratch. Good to hear from you .. Dave
Great useful video thanks
Hi John, glad you found it useful.. Best wishes .. Dave
I was thinking of using this inside but as it needs caulking I don't think I'll bother,might just go with a wood veneer instead
Great job!
Thank you kind Sir ... Best Wishes Dave
Thank you
You're very welcome Gary :-)
Very useful. Thank you.
You're very welcome ☺
i dont recomment this product for some reason when boating and and swimming you cant step on it wet because a start discoloring everything turn a mess more color appear when you wash the floors by the end of the day everything get the color bags cloth floors whatever you bring on board going to have a stain from eva foam no good
I think you must have a different product. Basic EVA foam is very colour fast, it may have it's deficiencies but that isn't one of them. Sounds like you have something that has been stained or painted after application. Thanks for the comment ... Best Wishes ... Dave
Are these soaky in wet conditions? I've heard that
I'm not sure what you mean by soaky ?
They don't seem to absorb water but water will lay on the surface until it drains away. The EV foam is similar to the foam you find on flip flops and similar footwear.
Does it seem hard like teak? Or plastic rubbery?
Hi Paul, it's not hard like teak. Apparently it's similar to the soles of flip flops, so firm but with some give. It's really nice to kneel on, especially if you have boney knees like me.
It's very cheap, buy yourself a small piece and test it. Best wishes.. Dave
@@davesailing Thank-you
What about now?
Take a look at th-cam.com/video/fOZQ3qY8hiM/w-d-xo.html I posted that a few days ago.
Glue tipe?
Hi, I'm not sure what you are asking ? The foam sheet is sticky backed, you remove the backing paper and just stick it down, it's VERY STICKY :-) Does that help ?? Best Wishes .. Dave
Come back in five years, when its timeto remove it. Tellusabout it then.
So you went to all that extra labor without first testing if the product would perform well on it's on??? You just assumed it would not. You've performed NO test. Definitely not a reasonable scientific one.
Nice to hear from you. A question for you. Have you spent much time on a sailing boat ?
My deduction was based on my experience of the endless cleaning of detritus - stones and dirt from shoes, salt crystals, bird excrement and the dirt that is left after the rain has evaporated from the deck of my boats.
The foam teak in it's basic form has nice channels which provide an ideal refuge for this unpleasant mixture. So I looked at ways of improving it.
The traditional wooden teak deck is caulked, originally with pitch and latterly with the synthetic materials that I describe in my video and it seemed logical to try and emulate that.
It has worked quite well and at first glance looks surprisingly like a real teak deck. Any detritus that falls on the deck is easily brushed off and most people who have seen it thought it was a great idea and a big improvement.
The video was never intended to be a scientific experiment, really just a demonstration of what I had done on my boat Zephyr IV. I think I gave a good appraisal of the product and my conclusions of it's performance for the last year.
Best WIshes .... Dave ... By the way it would be lovely to have you as a subscriber :-)
@@davesailing I don’t need to ever step on a sailing boat to know you just made an assumption that cost you a great deal of effort and time. You may be right in your assumption but it’s still an assumption. Millions of EVA users seem to be happy without that extra labor. If your assumption is incorrect imagine how much more scenery, etc. you could have enjoyed instead of taping, caulking, etc? I’m about to install some on a center console. I’ll let you know if I find I wished I had followed your laborious adventure.
@@stickermigtigger Why are you being so judgemental?
I wasn't happy with the appearance of the unmodified EVA foam so I experimented with caulking it, which for me, is an improvement. I shared that with the 1000 or so of my subscribers and it's obviously been interesting to others as the video has had 37,000 plus views.
If I spent a lot of energy and time with the experiment then with all due respect, it was my decision and my time to spend. I don't see why it should concern you if I chose to spend that time experimenting with the EVA foam.
Please do use the EVA foam in any way you wish on your centre console, I hope it works OK for you. Maybe you should spend some of your time creating a video of the process and sharing your experience for the potential benefit of your fellow boaters. Take care ... Dave
You are using the rong product
Maybe, what do you suggest I should use ?
Aqua traction is the best product on the market in my opinion water proof stain resistant non-slip and you get a one year guarantee.
@@jandrmarinefabrics2425 You could well be right. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a dealer in he UK.
You got that rong
I will also send you a sample