Cepco Tool 100EBTYCE Eb Ty Original 100-Piece kit
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Manufacturer: Cepco ToolModel: 100EBTYCE
Color: Black
Product features:
- Easy Install
- Hidden Fastening system
- Clean Surface
- No Hassle
- Boards are automatically spaced at 3/32 inch
- This Old House (1-year)
- Old House Journal
- Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual: Completely Revised and Updated
- Cepco Tool BoWrench BW-4 Tongue and Groove Cam Attachment
- Custom LeatherCraft 1545 27-Pocket Tote/Cooler Bag
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Cepco Tool 100EBTYCE Eb Ty Original 100-Piece kit
Customer Review: Not worth the time with Trex
Summary: 2 Stars
I abandoned using this system while putting the first two boards down. I used 20 foot 5/4 Trex and cut the biscuit slots myself. Problems included the following:
1. When there is a crown differential in adjacent joist the fasteners tend to bend down making the installation of the next board very difficult.
2. The fasteners are too noticable. Even with black painted screws like I used the dark black biscuits are very visible from above and below through the 1/4" gap required by Trex.
3. This process is SLOW and unless you are blessed with tremendous patience and have a lot of time on your hands consider other options.
4. Cutting your own biscuit slots is a lot of work and very hard to do ahead of time accurately to hit the joist locations. This often leads to the need to recut the biscuit slot up on the deck to get everything aligned. Use pre-grooved material with these fasteners.
5. Trex and EB-ty both say the deck should be glued down as well. I never got this far as I could not get the second board to slide over the biscuits in the edge of the first board. IF I did it would have been really frustrating to then pull teh board off, apply the glue and then struggle to get the board to align with the biscuits again while sliding the board THROUGH the glue rather than dropping it ON the glue
Bottom line: I used 1-5/8" stainless steel trim head screws and set them below the surface using the clutch setting on the drill. All boards were glued down using Liquid nails exterior grade adhesive. I used two fasteners at every other joist since mine are at 12" oc. The glue ends up providing the real adhesion. The crew head become nearly invisible after you hammer the "mushrooming" Trex back down over the crew into the screw head recess. Using this process my wife and I installed 34 20 lengths of 5/4 Trex in 10 hours.
Description of Cepco Tool 100EBTYCE Eb Ty Original 100-Piece kit
mfr: Cepco Tool Company Eb Ty Original Hidden Deck Fastening System. For Use with 3/4" and 5/4" boards including Ipe, Redwood, Cedar, CorrectDeck, Composotes, etc. Provides 3/32 spacing between deck boardsBuilding Materials
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