So You're Thinking About Tearing Up Your Cabin Carpet?

[Ezsteps]

Good luck Greg, can't wait to see the finished product this summer.

 

[Chris-380]

Great responses, thank you! I am 48, but not in the best shape of my life, but can still do an hour at a time.... I am hoping the 380 was made at a different factory with a carpet guy that slacked on using the carpet glue

Stee6043, I love your comment. I know we have the same boat and if the same jackass who laid my carpet did yours every section your try will be glued solid. BUT, it will come up.

Chris-380, not sure how old you are, I'm almost 61 and in the best shape of my life. But it is very labor intensive and I could only do about an hour at a time of really scrapping away without worrying about my marina finding me dead of a heart attack. But to answer your question, for your 38, it could be done in 4 - 6 hours with just one person. I like the heat gun suggestion someone made, but that would most likely take 2 people? I did find power at a close well and was able to use my oscillating tool which worked fairly well. I had all the carpet up, but used this to remove some of the heavy glue that remained on the floor. I will take video of this tomorrow.

Dock O Rock, I'm glad someone asked this as I'd like input. My leading candidate is the Cherry and Black Joint Nautik. It's sold by several names (i.e. Nautik, PlasTEAK). It will be about a grand for my 40 cabin floor, including aft cabin and 3 steps. I plan on screwing down plywood and this will glue done to it. BTW, I am told it would cost about 10 grand to pay a flooring company to rip out the old carpet, sand the floor smooth and install a marine floor for a 40DA.
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I also found this flooring from HD that the Cherry matches fairly well with the SR cabinets, but the Cherry is only about 1/3 of the floor and the rest is the darker color, so I' afraid that may not look right? Being it's "regular flooring", not marine, it's way cheaper. It's glue down and fairly thin, so I can cut it with a razor knife.
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I have some other samples of regular, thin glue down flooring that I am trying to match with our Cherry cabinets so I may use them. But the Nautik is in the lead. I also am considering a light color similar to the color of the original carpet. The forties are dark inside as we don't have the windows the other boats do so a light color laminate flooring may look good? Most are Oak and can you mix Oak with Cherry?

As I say in my video, with this COVID crap, I have all the time in the world, so I will spend the next 2 months getting the floor prepped for what every I decide. Stay tuned and let me know your thoughts on the flooring I have here.

 

[Stee6043]

Stee6043, I love your comment. I know we have the same boat and if the same jackass who laid my carpet did yours every section your try will be glued solid. BUT, it will come up.

Chris-380, not sure how old you are, I'm almost 61 and in the best shape of my life. But it is very labor intensive and I could only do about an hour at a time of really scrapping away without worrying about my marina finding me dead of a heart attack. But to answer your question, for your 38, it could be done in 4 - 6 hours with just one person. I like the heat gun suggestion someone made, but that would most likely take 2 people? I did find power at a close well and was able to use my oscillating tool which worked fairly well. I had all the carpet up, but used this to remove some of the heavy glue that remained on the floor. I will take video of this tomorrow.

Dock O Rock, I'm glad someone asked this as I'd like input. My leading candidate is the Cherry and Black Joint Nautik. It's sold by several names (i.e. Nautik, PlasTEAK). It will be about a grand for my 40 cabin floor, including aft cabin and 3 steps. I plan on screwing down plywood and this will glue done to it. BTW, I am told it would cost about 10 grand to pay a flooring company to rip out the old carpet, sand the floor smooth and install a marine floor for a 40DA.
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I also found this flooring from HD that the Cherry matches fairly well with the SR cabinets, but the Cherry is only about 1/3 of the floor and the rest is the darker color, so I' afraid that may not look right? Being it's "regular flooring", not marine, it's way cheaper. It's glue down and fairly thin, so I can cut it with a razor knife.
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I have some other samples of regular, thin glue down flooring that I am trying to match with our Cherry cabinets so I may use them. But the Nautik is in the lead. I also am considering a light color similar to the color of the original carpet. The forties are dark inside as we don't have the windows the other boats do so a light color laminate flooring may look good? Most are Oak and can you mix Oak with Cherry?

As I say in my video, with this COVID crap, I have all the time in the world, so I will spend the next 2 months getting the floor prepped for what every I decide. Stay tuned and let me know your thoughts on the flooring I have here.

I can't wait to see the final product. Put me down as voting for the cherry/black flooring option. Although the lines may add some complexity to the install, especially around the corners?

 

[Bop]

I just peeled mine up a few weeks ago. It was easy. We used a scraper attachment on an oscillating tool. One guy peeled back the carpet while the other slid the tool back and forth. The key was to let the tool do the work. The entire carpet was up in a couple hours. New flooring is almost done.

 

[midexp]

I just peeled mine up a few weeks ago. It was easy. We used a scraper attachment on an oscillating tool. One guy peeled back the carpet while the other slid the tool back and forth. The key was to let the tool do the work. The entire carpet was up in a couple hours. New flooring is almost done.

You're lucky with the carpet coming up that easy, certainly wasn't for me. Your floor looks very nice. So I'll ask you a few questions I have had, but can't seem to get answered. First off, this looks like regular laminate flooring (probably 8 mm think)? Being you have to angle up and push down the end piece, then use a tapping bar to get the plank to lock, how did you do that and still keep the laminate under the wall border? And with laminate you are supposed to leave an expansion gap, then cover the gap with quarter round. Being you are all the way to the wall, are you worried about the floor expanding and pushing up? Did you put anything under the laminate (i.e. plywood), or just put down on top of the fiberglass floor?

Thanks

 

[Bop]

I don't know what the exact thickness is. See attached photo for product information. We had to installing working from starboard to port to get it clicked in properly. We also glued the entire floor down. Where the hatches are, we carefully removed the click in portion. The Carpet we left at the walls will allow for a small expansion if any. Hope this helps.