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No matter what kind of dock you plan to build, choosing the right design is fundamental to making your dock building project a success. You may want to consider hiring a professional contractor or an experienced engineer to help design your dock.
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Treated Wood is the most preferred material for docks. Choose the right treatment level depending on the kind of water you are building in: here
The center stringer was completely wrapped at the factory, so that is still good, the other two were only partially and are now missing. I want to only have to do this once, so should I go with something pressure-treated and then wrap them, or would wrapping regular wood be sufficent? I've read where pressure treated will react with aluminum, but what about fiberglass?
Is pressure treated on fliberglass a concern? [links]
Re: pressure-treated stringers or not. here
The issues when using the same in yachts are the treated wood eats fasteners, creating rust streaks with galvy and 18-8, is often too wet to take paint in a timely manner, and is prone to warpage. When the boards squirt water when driving nails, you know the stuff is a bit wet for glue and paint and also might move, twist and cup a tad as it dries in service. more
If you removed all the pressure-treated SYP and galvanized carriage bolts from the shrimp and work boat fleets of the deep south, they would all sink at their moorings.more
How about glueability with epoxy? [links]
If you removed all the pressure-treated SYP and galvanized carriage bolts from the shrimp and work boat fleets of the deep south, they would all sink at their moorings. [links]
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Gentlemen - thanks for the excellent historic info! I had a 1986 2001 with wood stringers that never gave me an issue and as far as I know is still going strong. [links]
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