Thanks for the compliments guys, I appreciate the feed back. Jhaa_lives it's cool that you're thinking of using the same kind material. One thought to consider regarding joining the pieces together, it's amazing how much wood shrinks and expands, even ply material like the paralam. So I think your idea will work good, but I would glue only one side of the strip into the paralam and let the other side float. I'm thinking that if you glue both sides into the paralam the strip will eventualy split. That's one reason I used the metal strips, so the paralam was held down securely and contained, but could also move around due to expansion, flexing, etc. When my Dad and I replaced the decking on his '64 GMC farm truck we used two layers of 1" x 6" clear fir shiplap. We glued and screwed the two layers together so the whole deck was basically one solid board. It was fine for a while, but eventually it cracked because of expansion and contraction. It would have been better to only screw the two layers together, so the top layer could move on the bottom layer and vice versa. Good luck and I hope to see some pictures soon. Paul.
