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Originally Posted by EIDOL
what is the glue for the mechanical fasteners don't hold ?? I have used deck master it works well, has a powder coated metal tracks that are screwed to the joist then you screw it from below no drilling is required and you can use stock ipe.
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With the ipe clips you have one screw put in on a 45 dregree angle on one side of the board only. The glue is for extra holding power on the other side of the board.
I'd rather screw decking from the top of the deck than below, the reason I've never used the deckmaster system.
If you do screw & plug I have a little tip for you if you want to make your own plugs. Choose boards that have been well dried out. Yesterday I put in some plugs on an ipe deck. I had problems earlier with plug cutters getting all gooped up. It was the boards that caused the problem, too wet. This time I used old boards that had been in my boneyard for over a year, hardly any smoke & no gooped up crap on the plug cutter. Another thing, I used a slow speed drill this time, 1200 rpm instead of the usual 2500 rpm drills I used for screwing down decking.