New Snap in carpet time
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Great idea. Snap in carpeting sounds like it should come from the pontoon industry. More perceived luxury with low cost to manufacture. Seen it before. With the piping to finish the edge it looks like it belongs on a yacht.
MrG
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I decided to make some Mods to my Orignal Bennington carpet. The Mods I circled in red.
1. I deleted the table cut out as well as the seam around the captains chair
2. I made the carpet all 1 piece.
3. I extended the carpet to go all the way to the bow door.
First impressions. The carpet is way Lighter. No way would you ever wanna have the factory carpet 1 piece man that stuff was heavy. I’m sure all the weight in the factory carpet was the rubber base.
This carpet has no rubber backing so it super light weight. This way any water flows through the carpet and it drys completely. I think the factory rubber backed carpet would hold water. And problems surrounding that would emerge.
The only time I would 100% recommend a rubber backed carpet is when you have a smooth Gel coated floor like on some ski and run about boats. If you didn’t have the rubber carpet it would be a slip and slide. Even with the snaps. I’m excited to see how the new carpet works/feels
1. I deleted the table cut out as well as the seam around the captains chair
2. I made the carpet all 1 piece.
3. I extended the carpet to go all the way to the bow door.
First impressions. The carpet is way Lighter. No way would you ever wanna have the factory carpet 1 piece man that stuff was heavy. I’m sure all the weight in the factory carpet was the rubber base.
This carpet has no rubber backing so it super light weight. This way any water flows through the carpet and it drys completely. I think the factory rubber backed carpet would hold water. And problems surrounding that would emerge.
The only time I would 100% recommend a rubber backed carpet is when you have a smooth Gel coated floor like on some ski and run about boats. If you didn’t have the rubber carpet it would be a slip and slide. Even with the snaps. I’m excited to see how the new carpet works/feels
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Single piece carpet looks great. Did the boat originally come with snap in carpet? Looks high end. What model is the boat? Also looks like you got two boat projects going. What’s the back story.
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The boat is A 2575 QCW. The boat came with factory snap in carpet. And the first thing to start breaking down was the Edge’s. And then the rubber bottom of the carpet started breaking down. We got good life out of it. It’s from so no complaints.