Remove vinyl from inside hull…install carpet?

[kalinowski]

Has anyone removed the old vinyl hull liner and replaced it with carpet? My Hunter 33.5 (1988.. which I’ve owned since new) has the hull lined with carpet and it still looks great. I’m considering this as a relatively easy solution to the horrors of original vinyl around the bunks and inside cubbies. Of course, the carpet would be synthetic.

Dan Kalinowski
Lady Leanne (#135)
Honolulu

[quent]

We did that, with knobby carpet from Home Depot. Mixed results. Bunk sides worked well, and provided a bit of insulation, but overhead, the carpet is just too heavy to stay up with any kind of glue that we could find. We will replace it with something thinner and lighter.
Quent

[Adam Silverstein]

How’dja get the vinyl off?

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On Feb 6, 2009, at 4:37 PM, “quent” < ([email][/email])> wrote:

We did that, with knobby carpet from Home Depot. Mixed results. Bunk sides worked well, and provided a bit of insulation, but overhead, the carpet is just too heavy to stay up with any kind of glue that we could find. We will replace it with something thinner and lighter.
Quent

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[Hull152_Patrick]

I got mine off with lots and lots of scraping with a paint scraper and then lots and lots more scraping. You need to take out most of the teak little cover panels in the cabinets and over the chain plates to get t all out. I did not pull down the cable tray. What didn’t pull out I cut off flush with a utility knife. I then painted most of the areas (lockers and cabinets) with white epoxy. I plan to lay in some reflectix insulation (the shiny bubble wrap stuff) in those lockerscabinets. If it needs any adhesive at all I’ll use a single row of velcro along the top. The others which are “natural” right now (aft cabin and V-berth), I plan to beef-up with a layer of core and fiberglass and then put ash-batons over that.

Here we are scraping and some finished shots of the painted areas: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepplaya/sets/72157605240687273/

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Thanks Dawn and Patrick!

[kalinowski]

Patrick is right. Scrape…scrape…scrape. Then again.

I found some great 20 oz. cut pile marine quality olefin from, of all places, pontoonstuff.com. This stuff is a very flexible and light with rubber backing. Contact cement will make this an easy job. (I did the same thing with shag in a van 30+ years ago).

Dan Kalinowski
Lady Leanne (#135)
Honolulu

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