Now many boats will have some wooden trim on them, and that trim is often held in place with screws.
And to cover those screws up, we use what's called bungs . That will disguise the screw
and then you won't see the fix. Hey, Mark Corke here from BoatUS Magazine. Welcome aboard! Today
I'm going to show you how to replace some of the wooden bungs in a deck. But before we start, if
you find this video useful,don't forget to leave a comment or a like below and also don't forget
to subscribe to our YouTube channel. When done well, bungs do a great job and they not only look
professional but obviously disguise the screws. Replacing them isn't a particularly difficult job.
You might have shied away from it in the past, but I'm going to show you how easy this is. You don't
need a lot of tools and I've laid out on the deck here all the things that we're going to use today:
I've got an electric drill and actually I've got a Phillips screwdriver bit in this one right now,
a drill bit of the correct size, some wooden bangs, a bung cutter if we're
going to make our own bungs, screwdriver, very sharp chisel. I've got a flush cut saw
and a pick, and some quick set epoxy, and lastly some sandpaper. Really
enough depth here for me to better put a bung in top because the deck's worn down a little bit
so first thing I'm going to do is to remove the screw and then drill the deck a little bit deeper.
I've just gone in about another eighth. I've taken the drill out. Here now you can see the sawdust
and then now I'm just going to clean the hole out put the screw back in and then we can rebung it.
So Im using a little quick set epoxy. It doesn't matter what brand you use.
We just mix it according to the directions and this is just a one-to-one mix. We'll just mix that
up. I'm just doing it on a bit of an old sandpaper a bit of board or anything will do. Mix that up,
mix that up well. So now that we've got the epoxy there, I just coat the end of this bung
a little bit, and then i put it into the hole. And we want to make sure that the grain in the bung
is in line with the grain on the deck because if it's not, it will show up
once we've cleaned it down. So I'm just going to tuck that in a little bit and now I'm going
to leave that for the epoxy to set up. Oonce that's dry we can come back and clean that up.
All right so I've still got a little bit of bung showing there, and i could obviously
just sand that down, but it's going to take a long time particularly if I had a lot to
do. So I'm just going to go in there and use my nice sharp chisel and just shave that down
until it's flush. You'll notice that I'm using the chisel upside down. This is an
important tip because if you try and do it like this, it will just dig in and you know either
pull the bung out again or you'll make a big divot in the deck, so do it carefully with nice
shearing action like that. It's important to make sure that your chisel is sharp
because if it's not sharp, you're not just digging that out. Aalmost done.
Last thing just get a bit of sandpaper.
One of the questions that people often ask is when you sanded this down it's obviously
a different color. That's because we've just taken the gray off. But this is going to
weather in and so in a couple of days time maybe a few weeks this is going to weather so it'll be
that nice silver-gray color. So there you have it. I hope you've learned something here today
and find this tip useful thanks for watching and we'll see you on the water!