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Hidden Fasteners

Coastal Contractor

July/August 2007
by Andy Engel
Prongs, tracks, biscuits, or clips, these attachments are here to stay.

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Hidden Fasteners Prongs, tracks, biscuits, or clips, these attachments are here to stay Andy Engel Who came up with the first hidden decking fastener is open to debate. Weston Leavens remembers first seeing them in a magazine sometime around the end of the Reagan administration. A screw or nail affixed the clip to the first board and to the joist, and the second board was driven onto a prong protruding from the first clip. At the time, Leavens was the owner of one of the largest deck-building companies in San Diego. Intrigued, he ordered a box of the fasteners and

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