Carpet peeling off in the cabin

[Rick Carlson]

Help!!! Can anyone give advise on how to repair carpet that is peeling off the celing and on one side of the cabin. Is their a specific adhesive to use as a glue. Need advice.

 

[Ray Bowles]

Rick, Your basic hardware store Contact cement

that comes in a qt. can is probably the best to re-attach with. Paint it on with a paint brush. Or, there is the "grip, strip and re-cover it" method. That's the one where you pull all the old off an replace with the covering of your choice.RayS/V Speedy

 

[R.W.Landau]

Carpet adhesive

If you go to Home Depot, Lowes etc... You can buy indoor/outdoor carpet adhesive.This happened with my 25 O'Day. The carpet had a rubber back that had deteriorated.I peeled it back, scraped the carpet, and scraped the hull.then shop vac'd it out from behind. Applied the carpet adhesive to the hull with a fine notched trowel and reapplied the carpet.r.w.landau

 

[Gary Jensen]

Glueing overhead carpet

To get your carpet to re-attach overhead properly you must first go to any carpet store that does installations. Get "waterproof" adhesive for rubberback carpet installation. The way to get the best adhesion is to apply the adhesive with a fine notched trowel (3/32 notch 1/8th inch apart)... Allow some open air time on the paste so it will grab better. Use a spreader to smooth it properly and make sure the edges of the carpet are protected and rubbed thoroughly. That will give you a proper installation. Email me if you need any further information.--sail1752@aol.com

 

[Joe Dickson]

3M...

When we replaced the hull liner in our 31 we used a 3M product that was recommended to us by a local company that remodel's boat interiors. It looks like a rubber cement, works like a contact cement but it has some 'open' time so that you can re-position the liner before it sets completely. It's sold locally through Blackburn's which is a marine supply store. Not sure if they are a chain or not, but certainly other places sell this stuff as well...Good Luck,Joes/v Charis

 

[Peggie Hall/Head Mistress]

Just an idea...

As long as your old--and most likely somewhat grungy by now--carpet headliner is already trying to come down all by itself, why not finish the job and replace it with nice clean vinyl? Easy to keep clean...would definitely update the boat--nobody's used "monkey fur" since the mid-'80s...plus, it would increase the available light and prob'ly increase the apparent size of your cabin by about 50%. Auto upholstery shops have a nice selection of foam-backed vinyl headliner materials and can tell you how to secure it--whether with glue or teak strips screwed into the cabin top (which is a WAY cool look), or both. As the header says, just an idea...