Harston Marine provides professional teak decking manufacturing and installation for yachts and boats.

Professional laying of teak decking from Burmese teak using Simson technology (Denmark). Works are carried out in accordance with the requirements of the international register Bureau Veritas.

Since 2006, Harston Marine has been laying teak decks on commercial and pleasure boats of various sizes. During this time, we have professionally mastered the teak decking systems Simson (Denmark) and Sika (Switzerland). Our specialists have been trained in Teak Decking Systems (USA) technology, which is used for rapid teak laying on large decks with an area of more than 150 m2 (motor ships, mega yachts, etc.).

When maufacturing teak deck flooring, we use:

1. Burmese stem teak of the first grade (from $18,000/m3). Rail thickness – 8mm;

2. Complete set of Simson or Sika system components required for installation (black joint sealant, leveling sealant, thinner, adhesive and special primers for plastic and wood);

3. Special tools and fixtures;

4. Skillful hands of our specialists who have experience in laying teak on fiberglass, steel, aluminum and even wooden hulls.

The cost of 1 m2 of laying starts from 1500 Euro and depends on the total area, the complexity of the contours, the presence of steps, the number of hatches and the individual wishes of the customer.

Attention!

High-quality professional laying of teak decks in Ukraine is carried out by no more than 2-3 companies. The minimum cost of professional installation starts from 1300-1500 Euro per 1m2, and for a number of reasons described below, it cannot be less!

For 8 years, we have re-layed more than a dozen poorly laid decks and guarantee that if you are offered to lay a deck much cheaper, then most likely after the first winter or already at the end of the season such a deck will need to be re-layed.

So, if you were offered to lay a teak decking for $800-900-1000, then most likely it is cheaper due to savings on the quality of materials in one of the following ways:

1. Use of cheap teak of low grades. Usually this is either wild teak with twisted heterogeneous fibers, or boards obtained from teak branches, not the trunk. Such teak is usually used in the manufacture of teak crafts (figurines, coasters, etc.). Its cost does not exceed $5,000-$6,000 per 1m3, unlike first-class teak at $18,000/m3. A deck laid out of such teak has a non-uniform pattern and can delaminate over time in places of knots and twisted fibers.

2. The use of the so-called “African teak” instead of teak. This wood is properly called iroko and is very similar to teak in texture. In general, it is suitable for laying decks and some European shipyards use it instead of teak, but it does not have such high rot resistance. Its disadvantage is that over time it turns black. In addition, Irokko has less mechanical strength and is more prone to mechanical damage, chips and delamination, especially in places such as steps, the edge of the bathing area, contours. The cost of Irokko is about $6,000/m3. Sometimes, they also try to use the so-called “Brazilian teak”, which refers to hardwoods. Hard rocks should absolutely not be used for the manufacture of deck flooring, since over time such slats, twisting along the longitudinal axis, begin to break away from the deck.

3. Using only a part of branded components Simson, Sika. Since, when laying teak decks, the total cost of the Simson chemical components used is at least 25% of the cost of the entire laying, which is more than 350 Euro / m2, many inexperienced performers are tempted to either not use some of the components at all, or to replace them with “something” cheaper . For example, acetone is used instead of a branded solvent, and expensive primers for wood are generally “forgotten” to buy, unaware that the primer is one of the most important components of the Simson system, which provides incredibly strong adhesion between wood and black seam. The adhesion is so strong that if the primer gets on the hands, it is impossible to wash it off for several days and it lags behind only with the top layer of the skin. If you do not use a primer, then over time, the slats will begin to flake off the deck and from the joint sealant. Water will get into the cracks formed and after the first wintering, the entire flooring will fall behind.

4. The deck is laid by people who are far from yacht building. Usually these are parquet and terrace carpenters, who often do not suspect the difference between the operating conditions of wooden flooring inside the heated room and on the deck of the yacht. They don’t know that a yacht is constant high humidity and sudden temperature changes, this is constant ultraviolet radiation from which most sealants crack, this is salt fog from which even stainless steel rusts, this is a constant temperature and mechanical deformation of the deck, which the elastic seams between the rails must compensate for. Just one carelessly glued batten can cause an entire deck section to come loose.