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 <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > On Apr 28, 2014 9:08 AM, "Bob S" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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]. >> 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. >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
