garryowen
New Member
- Mar 3, 2008
- 689
- Boat Info
- 230 weekender-
-310 sundancer
- Engines
- 454 Mercruiser w/Bravo III-
-twin 7.4 mfi w/Bravo III's
when we got our 310 the back main carpet in the cockpit was flaking black and sticking to deck not to mention the front had completely separated from the backing in spots.
our answer was to purchase all new carpet from snap in carpet here on the sight.
i brought the old home and after reading some other posts on the subject decided to take a run at refurbishing ours. nothing to loose.
found a post here that recommend fiber-loc non skid RUG BACKING. thank you to who ever you are. gerry ordered some up and i went to work.
the first step was to shampoo front with here bissel home steam cleaner. i then rinsed with a garden hose till all signs of soap were gone on both sides of carpet.
let dry for a day and tackled the black backing with stiff scrub brush working off as much of the loose and crumbly backing as i could. this turned into a black dusty mess.
will add, all work was done out side in our driveway.
any way got house vacuum with brush to clean up. running this over the backing not only sucked up the fine black dust but cleaned all of the flaking backing off.
next start applying new backing material. this stuff stinks and comes out of the container in a consistency of thick white latex paint. i slathered it into the de-lamated spots and was able to get threads to stick and stay back together by holding my 3" paint brush straight up and down and dabbing them down.
it says if using 2 coats to reapply with in 12 hours. after 5 hours in the direct sun i did apply a second coat.
next day was able to trim bottom end and re-hem and re install the binding material. this was the hardest step as gerry's sewing machine was barely able to punch the needle threw and open wide enough for the material.
if you dont let yours get frayed to edge and can eliminate this step you are way ahead of the game.
this turned out way better than gerry or i looked for when starting out.
if any one is interested i have more pix and more how i worked. trying to do short recap here.
just need to see how it will stand up to water and sun. container says i can be used to make rugs non skid so thinking it will work. have drowned with the hose here at home 3 days in a row and dries right out with no effect.
BEFORE vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
AFTER ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
our answer was to purchase all new carpet from snap in carpet here on the sight.
i brought the old home and after reading some other posts on the subject decided to take a run at refurbishing ours. nothing to loose.
found a post here that recommend fiber-loc non skid RUG BACKING. thank you to who ever you are. gerry ordered some up and i went to work.
the first step was to shampoo front with here bissel home steam cleaner. i then rinsed with a garden hose till all signs of soap were gone on both sides of carpet.
let dry for a day and tackled the black backing with stiff scrub brush working off as much of the loose and crumbly backing as i could. this turned into a black dusty mess.
will add, all work was done out side in our driveway.
any way got house vacuum with brush to clean up. running this over the backing not only sucked up the fine black dust but cleaned all of the flaking backing off.
next start applying new backing material. this stuff stinks and comes out of the container in a consistency of thick white latex paint. i slathered it into the de-lamated spots and was able to get threads to stick and stay back together by holding my 3" paint brush straight up and down and dabbing them down.
it says if using 2 coats to reapply with in 12 hours. after 5 hours in the direct sun i did apply a second coat.
next day was able to trim bottom end and re-hem and re install the binding material. this was the hardest step as gerry's sewing machine was barely able to punch the needle threw and open wide enough for the material.
if you dont let yours get frayed to edge and can eliminate this step you are way ahead of the game.
this turned out way better than gerry or i looked for when starting out.
if any one is interested i have more pix and more how i worked. trying to do short recap here.
just need to see how it will stand up to water and sun. container says i can be used to make rugs non skid so thinking it will work. have drowned with the hose here at home 3 days in a row and dries right out with no effect.
BEFORE vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
AFTER ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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