Re-carpeting?

[Bob S]

I have a 1973 42' aft cabin which I am in the process of upgrading. We have owned the boat for 16 years and my wife disliked the carpet from the start. (off white twist pile carpet) I did tear out the carpeting from the kitchen forward and installed engineered flooring which is working great with throw rugs. I now want to re-carpet the main salon and aft cabin. As you know there are two large engine hatches in the salon and several bilge access ports in the aft cabin. I really want to do this myself if possible. We want to use a high quality pile carpet and not anything easy like carpet tiles etc. 

1. Think I can do this? The carpet would be cut into many smaller sections. Nothing needing severe stretching.

2. How would you affix the carpet? I think it currently is stapled to the plywood decking without a pad with tack strips along the edges.

3. Use a pad? If so what type?

4. What type of carpet and pad?  

OR hire an expert.....but who?

Thanks

[Harris Bob]

Hi

 

Carpeting is dead simple. Cutting around the hatches wasn’t difficult (ended up stapling under the edges).

 

The aft cabin stairs was probably the hardest part – you may need a little practice hiding the staples…

 

Just don’t do the one really STUPID thing that a newbie like me did…I pulled the old carpet out and used it as a pattern for the new carpet, but since I was cutting it, I placed the two faces together. I ended up with a mirror image of the pattern!

 

You can staple it or use the tack strips…both work. If you want to stretch, you can rent a knee-kicker for about $10.

 

I used standard underpad, but if I were to do again, I would upgrade to the high quality underpad.

 

We have a had a couple of floods where the Vacuflush stuck and flooded the aft cabin…you can only get a carpet soaking wet so many times before it falls apart (unless you get marine or indoor/outdoor carpet.

 

I paid a guy to work with me, and let him do the hatch covers, etc. Again, if I were to do it now, I would do the job myself.

 

Good luck

 

Bob Harris

 

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[william bradley]

For what it's worth look into sheet lead for a sound deadening underlayment in the saloon.

Sent from my 5S thigh bone

[Bob S]

Thanks Bob and Bill for the quick responses. I'll take your advice and give it a try. 

Bill, a previous owner lined the underside of the engine room with a very effective soundproofing system. My boat is already surprisingly quiet. Adding some high quality padding should help more. 

One thing certain is that it isn't a lot of square feet so the cost should be reasonable doing it myself.

I'll let you know how it goes/went. I know for sure I will have a happier crew. Happy crew, happy life.

[David Oates]

I once read, on this very forum, that one should use padding made for baby's room.  Apparently, there is padding designed for the possibility of wetness!

DavidO

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[hmatt...@comcast.net]

On my 34 footer I have replaced the carpet a couple of times.  There are large areas in the salon that are all fiber glass where staples would not work.  I had to glue the carpet down in those areas.  It can get messy if you are not careful like around the edges where the glue has a tendency to squeeze out around the edges if it is applied to thick.    Hal

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[Hhct...@aol.com]

the best pad is a rubber product that all shops have its called a '' double stick pad'' usually about 5/16th inch thick of rubber,, great for sound deadening  and install,, you glue it down  and then you can stretch and tack the carpet or best to glue carpet to it ,, you can staple edges of hatch's etc or the best is to have them bound,, even the edges of stairs, I usually glue carpet down,, then dry fit and cut the carpet and take to a shop to have edges that need to be bound done,, always think if you need to leave access to remove engines?? if so cut pad at all areas ended and then only staple or snap carpet down rather then gluing ,  have done on a couple of our uni's for great results,,,

[Hhct...@aol.com]

PS,,  there is basic rebound pad that has a plastic top layer  about a 1.00 yard more but worth it

 

I have a 1973 42' aft cabin which I am in the process of upgrading. We have owned the boat for 16 years and my wife disliked the carpet from the start. (off white twist pile carpet) I did tear out the carpeting from the kitchen forward and installed engineered flooring which is working great with throw rugs. I now want to re-carpet the main salon and aft cabin. As you know there are two large engine hatches in the salon and several bilge access ports in the aft cabin. I really want to do this myself if possible. We want to use a high quality pile carpet and not anything easy like carpet tiles etc. 

1. Think I can do this? The carpet would be cut into many smaller sections. Nothing needing severe stretching.

2. How would you affix the carpet? I think it currently is stapled to the plywood decking without a pad with tack strips along the edges.

3. Use a pad? If so what type?

4. What type of carpet and pad?  

 

OR hire an expert.....but who?

 

Thanks

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[Bob S]

Great. I'm going to want to get at the big hatches so we have had an open seam around them. Then we have a throw rug which covers most of that seam. There are a couple of filters which cannot be changed without raising the hatch. I'll look into binding in other spots. 

Some of the new synthetic carpets seem great. Stain resistant and can be scrubbed vigorously should you have a spill. They suggested a felt pad for drying should it get wet. I don't expect that so will look into the double stick pad. 

[Hhct...@aol.com]

 double sick the best , next in line is the rebound pad with a layer of plastic on top side,,its for blocking stains

[John Hitchcock]

Hi Bob I have a boat exactly like yours. I laid wall to wall carpet in both the living room and the bedroom. In order to access the hatches in the living room I cut those portions out leaving one side untouched and because  money was a factor and couldn't have them bound , I tried two other ways. firstly on the edges I tried hot glue. that didn't work.  I then tried a Bic kitchen lighter and burnt all of the edges.  It works perfectly I am very happy.  Amateur  yes but works perfectly. The carpet lies in it's place

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[Bob S]

Good suggestion, thanks

[Bob S]

Yike, I priced the binding and It would cost around $300 just for the 2 engine hatches (since some of the work would have to be done by hand). I think I will go with a cut edge and a throw rug in the main salon. I have that now and it looks fine. You have to love online buying. It will cost a little more than 50% of retail by buying the carpet and pad online (and no sales tax) delivered to the house.I went with double stick padding on everyone's recommendation.  

Thanks for the help. I will save the removed pieces as templates and do some of the big cuts at home. Also I did find out I have sheet lead under the existing carpet. No wonder we are so quiet. 

Got most of the tools. Only thing left to get is a new pair of industrial knee pads and Advil. 

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:55 AM, John Hitchcock <evange...@gmail.com> wrote: