Hull Liner
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Heck, let us know what you used to get the old stuff off!
Chuck
Everlong
O'day 25
Warren RI
The old fabric was water stained and had mostly separated from the hull. The backing was dried out out and crumbling. I just pulled off the fabric and went over the old adhesive with an angle grinder with a 38 grit sanding blade.
Rich
To get the old stuff off, I used an angle grinder with some sort of sanding disk, sort of a loopy brillo pad kinda thing,You can see it in the picture below. I can't remember what it was now. I also found a wire brush to be very hand for the corners and areas you cant get too with the grinder, which will be a good many. The handle on the brush was shaped in such a way at to allow different types of grips for different angles. A handy feature.
Rich: Where did you get your fabric? I need to order that and the glue. I hate to use mastic because that stuff would probably not come off.
Keith
Rich: Where did you get your fabric? I need to order that and the glue. I hate to use mastic because that stuff would probably not come off.
Keith
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P.s I ordered the trimatrix ports from New Found Metals today. You can check them out at http://www.newfoundmetals.com/catalog/trimatrix1.html
Hope they work out. I wonder what the installation will be like...A breeze I am sure NOT!
keith
Hope they work out. I wonder what the installation will be like...A breeze I am sure NOT!
keith
This is the fabric I bought-
http://www.garysupholstery.com/ntohull.html
It comes in 72" width and can cut it down the middle for most of the hull.
I figured about 10 yards
Rich
http://www.garysupholstery.com/ntohull.html
It comes in 72" width and can cut it down the middle for most of the hull.
I figured about 10 yards
Rich
Rich,
That looks like good stuff, but I am not sure I want to use that particular material. It looks more like carpet, and not the woven 'stuff" that we had. I am concerned that thicker material holds more moisture behind it, trapping it between the cabin wall and the material = Mold. There should be no plastic barrier like there is on the back of floor carpet. This allows the moisture to escape. Floor style carpet has a barrier to keep moisture off the floor. Disclaimer: At least that is my understanding. And as I go along I have found that my understanding can acutally be my misunderstanding!
Early on in this process, i ran across a thread addressing cabin liner. This was the supplier in that. They recommended 3-m spray adhesive.
http://www.sailrite.com/Headliner-Carpet-Type-Cream-72?sc=2&category=37
keith
I'm getting closer to putting my hull liner on. I've got a tub of indoor/outdoor carpet adhesive to try out. Hopefully it won't bleed through if I trowel it thin enough. I got some liner that is fairly close to what was on the boat originally from yourautotrim.com. When you remove the old liner, pull quickly like a bandaid. I learned this trick after I was about 90% done. Any remaining fibers I burned down with my propane torch, then I sanded the remaining glue off.
I used this fabric and adhesive on my 26. 9 yards did the whole thing
http://www.yourautotrim.com/perhittrimad.html
http://www.yourautotrim.com/huhfa.html
I had the old ones to use as patterns, and was able to line them up to use the fabric efficiently with very little waste.
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They advised 1 can per yard, so I ordered 8 cans, figuring in waste. I had a little over a can left.
Rick
This is very helpful to me. I bought a 272 last winter, it should have been named "The Hippy Glider". It has faux finished wood grain over the interior frp, stars and moons on the headliner and table, shag carpet hull liner aft the companion way. I need to get at things behind and was planning to just rip it off and leave it as I only day sail. I would just take my lumps when I sell it. Most of the shag is gone from the aft cabin/storage locker.
How much time do you have invested in the project? I checked the link and the liner cost was not bad at all.
How much time do you have invested in the project? I checked the link and the liner cost was not bad at all.
Hey, maybe that would start a trend....
...But then i am an ex-(or is it latent) hippy
We need pix of that.
Whats wrong with that!
...But then i am an ex-(or is it latent) hippyWe need pix of that.
What is the adhesive like? Is it spray adhesive or something you trowel onto the hull? Consistency?
The website has a very good description, it is a spray, with a flat pattern spray which is also adjustable for width. It sprayed on very easily with little or no over spray. It was also, I thought, very low oder. I did however, have a box fan blowing in from the companionway, and one blowing out from the forward hatch.
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