I know, I looked everywhere for it too, ended up biting the bullet and buying the fifty pound bag of Firecracker LS, and I must say, it's a pretty big bag. I probably only need 20 lbs of it, but I really wanted to get the top ranked spreading TF, so I figured it was worth it. I could part with 15 lbs no problem. Send me a personal message, I could probably get it out tomorrow if you are interested.

You can get decent pre-finished hardwood for around $4 a square foot plus installation, and if this is upstairs or on a crawl space with a wooden subfloor, installation could be DIY pretty easily. Naildown isn't that hard. That's not too expensive in the flooring world, and there aren't that many choices that are less expensive that would be asthma and budget friendly. If you are downstairs on a slab foundation, you could stain it and finish it. You will need some products with VOC's though, and your son may not deal with that so well depending on the severity of his issues. There's vinyl, either luxury vinyl tile or some type of sheet vinyl. Those can also emit VOC's when new, so you'd need to research any low VOC options as well as assess their effect on your son also. There's cork, but it's more expensive than hardwood. There's tile, and you can even get tile that looks like hardwood if you wanted, but that's going to be the price of wood also, and leave you using some rugs in the winter because it's cold. Unless you install underfloor heating cables, which is WONDERFUL, but now you're well above the price of wood again, even DIYing the install. Really, wood would probably end up being the cheapest and safest choice, especially if you don't have any DIY ability.

Ya got to figure,,say the plug joints are all real good,TB111 is some good a@s glue no doubt I use it my very own self.But here you are, all glued joints need protection inside and out inside its temp control and no sunlite outside its the finish that has water/mildew/uv protection with the given all those joints are tight and holding. A person uses a high power bubble get in there and get that stuff out leach out the top leval,killer cleaner like the Major Ken Bubba makes, on a regular, I am just wondering how many times it will take for the cleaner to get into the joint/joints and have a little party with the glue. Just wondering Guys! if you try it I am very intersted like in a year or so if the Chem got in there and weakened a few of the plugs in a bad way or if nothing happened and youall got away with no finish at all. J

Barb,I have wondered this question my own self, just in my mind,when I think about Folks using those clips. With the given I would never use them for a lot of reasons,I have thought about how to get the decking tight enough to install them with a bowrench seeing as how the handle would get in the way after it was locked down sometimes. Now with the bowrench it all depends on where a person starts it on the joist higher or lower,any position and it will lock down on its own no need to hold it,thats one of the simple but briliant workings of the tool used corectly it dont slip. Another given>>>boards are not perfectly true/straight, your not keying in a program you are working with machined parts of a tree, a really good tree,but a tree none the less.....Thus the tearm,,,WoodWorking. Anyway I have given thought to you poor folks who have bought into the ebty/clips misguided marketing and there you are standing on the frame trying to get those stupid things to work. Idea!!>>>use 3 bowrenches and a say a 6' long 2x6 placed in frount of the deck board you want to install, lay a bead of constustion adhesive on the joist,pick the board up and land it on the ca,slam the 2x6 against the ipe and start working the 3 bowrenches slowley against it, lock them in place and run 1 ss screw. Do this how ever many times it takes keeping in mind your decking is never really being fastened to the frame so as you let go of the bw's its going to move a little. But keep going anyway and when you get to the end of the run take up the slack with pipe clamps.Now thats not going to work totaly either until with all the decking is clamped together so you face screw an end piece on the outside of the run.Then let the pipe clamps go and see what you got. J