About Injectadeck
Injectadeck is more than just a product it’s a complete system that uses a tiny hole to enter a fiberglass laminate. It then radiates out up to 12″ filling voids that cause soft spots in a boat’s decks, hulls, hatches and gunwales. As Injectadeck spreads it consumes moisture, becoming more adhesive and curing solid. You really cannot clean the areas Injectadeck works in and you don’t have to. Injectadeck is perfect in a slimy wet environment full of pulp, mildew, moisture & bugs. Rescue your boat for sale or classic keeper like our 1980 Mako 20 – Most any boat is worth saving with Injectadeck!
Injectadeck is an easy DIY system to repair wood or foam cored decks, hulls,fly bridges, hatches & gunwales. The process uses an engineered water consuming 12lb structural marine foam injected through a tiny hole that spreads 10″-12″ and more in vertical applications like cored hulls. It works through partially empty rotted wet wood or foam core fiberglass laminate. It’s all about the delivery system through that #10 hole and drilling less of them. This engineered hydrophilic structural foam worked the best out of everything we tried from epoxies to gorilla glue and a myriad of two part compounds.(single part anything is weak) Some of the compounds & products we tried might have worked if you didn’t have to drain it, dry it, clean it or turn the boat into swiss cheese to install it.
The down side is that engineered foams are not cheap, nor is the equipment to dispense them. The Injectadeck kit includes the dispensing tool for it’s dual cartridge containing the 2 part foam mix. We include a restrictor plate which meters 2 liquid parts of different specific gravity as it enters the mixer. This ensures your get a precise mix, especially when working overhead across a fly bridge or cabin top. Working overhead is best injecting with a partner next to you plugging the liquid in as you move the injection to the next hole. The foam is water-catalytic and becomes more adhesive when it contacts moisture enveloping wood pulp, pests, slime, mold along is migration, adhering to the two fiberglass layers. Traditional adhesives (epoxy, etc.) simply cannot do this. Injectadeck also has the side effect of reversing a bad moisture meter survey by displacing and absorbing moisture inside the deck. Injectadeck is light, waterproof and when cured, exhibits no shrinkage over time and has an antibacterial/antifungal agent to help stop the rot. Injectadeck fills the soft areas in a boat’s decks, hulls, hatches and gunwales quickly and efficiently by filling the void, enveloping material and curing solid. Injectadeck can rescue your boat-for-sale or classic keeper. Most any boat is worth saving with Injectadeck!
The Injectadeck process has improved the last 10 years. It’s readily available as an option to cutting the deck out and replacing it costing thousands of dollars and weeks or months of time. Lets face it, it’s just not worth it on older boats. If you can get 10 more years out of your boat and be back on the water in a day for less than $500? It’s worth a try and wont get in the way of any deck replacement down the road. There is really no limit to the applications of this complete system, for example: On cored hulls using the Injectadeck system you can fill a 30′ long 5′ wide soft, rotted void by drilling 2 feet apart, 15 rows of 3 holes from chine to rub rail. We did both on sides of a 46′ 2000 SeaRay and completed the install the same day. Once you drill the first hole and inspect you know the void you have. With a 1″ thick core, estimate 4 sqft per cartridge of empty laminate and on a vertical hull wall with 1/2″ void thickness, you can get 6′ per cartridge . Never drill through both layers of a laminate, Injectadeck needs a mold to contain it. Just write or call tech support about your project for useful tactics to achieve your repair.
The problem – Once a screw has entered a fiberglass sandwich core, moisture will start to seep in, a little at first, but later it pours in. Gravity and wicking action bring the moisture to the bottom layer of fiberglass. In many boats it forms an entire lake, lowering the vessel’s center of gravity and waterline! Once water collects, the rotting process starts working up from the bottom up and by the time you feel a soft spot, it’s more than halfway rotted through the core material and working its way upward. This is why, if you drill in the worst spot and hit solid wood? touch drill thru that wood till you hit the bottom layer of fiberglass without drilling through it. you inject the liquid under the core to push it up. The foam will spread across the lower fiberglass consuming and displacing the water out the drain hole you drilled in a low point of the fiberglass laminate.
The Engineering challenge – Since the inception of foam-filled products like boats and surfboards, to modern day aircraft applications, the problem with two-part structural foams has been that they expand quickly and uncontrollably when mixed and require large holes for “the pour”. In addition, most do not address the issue of accumulated moisture, or varying levels of moisture in the deck or hull which also causes any foam hardness to vary. Once cured, Injectadeck is a hard and resilient structural foam that can support heavy loads with little or no collapse of the closed-cell waterproof structure. Expanding six times its volume, it’s a dense foam. Most boat decks, particularly older ones, are wet rotted and perfect candidates for this product. With Injectadeck’s latest formula and process the foam is able to adapt to all voids wet or dry resulting in a solid deck you can feel good about.
Background – Injectadeck was created by an aerospace applications engineer who has relied on various structural foams to provide lightweight solutions for Air, Land and Sea applications. He needed a solution for his aging boat’s wet rotted deck and, finding no real solution, he set about creating an efficient repair method in 2014. Since that humble beginning, thousands of boat owners all over the world have relied on Injectadeck to get more than a few more seasons out of their boat, saving their craft and their wallet from the dreaded scourge of deck rot.
*TESTIMONIALS*
- World Racing Champion Leon Lance; “I repaired my J24, it worked out so well, I sell & rep the product and Injectadeck sponsors us”
- John Satazahn Seattle WA “I installed it my trawler top bridge, a lot of water came out and I passed the moisture survey”
- Mike H. L3 Eng, Crestview FL “I ordered my Injectadeck kit on 10/2 and it came fast, 3 days”
- Jim Stubbs Tampa FL “45′ Silverton rotted gunnels, I used a 2″ clear plastic tube on the and run in the gunnels, for my injections, Survey passed!
Questions? Call the Tech Line 727-768-7509
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Sorry no returns on international orders or domestic, it’s an 8 – 12lb box.
The Injectadeck Team