Dear John,
It's interesting to read that it may only be the black caulking that
makes teak decks hot under the sun. Unfortunately, all of my personal
training time is currently devoted to narrowing my waist. Try as I
might, I just don't have time to train my feet narrower, too, so as to
navigate between caulking stripes....(grin)
Seriously, even the slightly beige, or light-blue nonskid used on some
fiberglass decks is, in my experience, noticeably hotter under a tropic
sun than plain white FG. So I'm still going to guess that ANY wood
that isn't perfectly white (whether or not in conjunction with dark
caulking) is going to absorb heat and thus be more uncomfortable.
I recall as a youth that despite summers spent barefoot, with
ultra-tough-and-calloused soles, the bare, the weathered boards of the
NY and NJ boardwalks got darn hot in summer....and they had open spaces,
not caulking, between them, with cool, shaded space underneath.
Cheers,
Rod
Truelove39@aol.com wrote:
This is a popular myth. Few have taken the trouble to discern that
clean, natural (un-varnished) teak is not hot at all. Barefoot have
sailors walked teak decks in the world's tropics for centuries. It is
not the teak that becomes hot in the direct sun. It is the black caulk.
Regards,
John
"Seahorse"
Rod Gibbons writes:
Primary reason for NOT liking teak decks?
They're TOO HOT to walk on in tropic locales--they scorch bare feet
(besides heating up the below-decks areas).
Dear John,
It's interesting to read that it may only be the black caulking that
makes teak decks hot under the sun. Unfortunately, all of my personal
training time is currently devoted to narrowing my waist. Try as I
might, I just don't have time to train my feet narrower, too, so as to
navigate between caulking stripes....(grin)
Seriously, even the slightly beige, or light-blue nonskid used on some
fiberglass decks is, in my experience, noticeably hotter under a tropic
sun than plain white FG. So I'm still going to guess that ANY wood
that isn't perfectly white (whether or not in conjunction with dark
caulking) is going to absorb heat and thus be more uncomfortable.
I recall as a youth that despite summers spent barefoot, with
ultra-tough-and-calloused soles, the bare, the weathered boards of the
NY and NJ boardwalks got darn hot in summer....and they had open spaces,
not caulking, between them, with cool, shaded space underneath.
Cheers,
Rod
Truelove39@aol.com wrote:
> This is a popular myth. Few have taken the trouble to discern that
> clean, natural (un-varnished) teak is not hot at all. Barefoot have
> sailors walked teak decks in the world's tropics for centuries. It is
> not the teak that becomes hot in the direct sun. It is the black caulk.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
> "Seahorse"
>
> Rod Gibbons writes:
>
> Primary reason for NOT liking teak decks?
> They're TOO HOT to walk on in tropic locales--they scorch bare feet
> (besides heating up the below-decks areas).
>
