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 36 DC Sentient Wave From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob S Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Re-carpeting? 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ________________________________ This message and any attachments are solely for the use of the intended recipients. They may contain privileged and/or confidential information or other information protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system. Thank You. ________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
