Originally Posted by
pharmaboy2
Utemad, pretty much the removing the board shouldnt be necesssary, as its held about 1.5mm above the surface of the joist, allowing drying out to occure regularly. Even so if you had to remove the length for some other reason, you'd have to cut the fixing with a grinder at the edge of the board down one side - maybe take as long as 2 minutes a board!
Obviously you cant reattach it the same way, but one of the points is that this sort of maintenance on a dying deck happens at the 20 yr mark rather than the 12 yr mark! ;)
As to swelling, you can rest assured that softened timber will push further onto the fittings - no downside to that.
