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.
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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.
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Any Ideas for adding a Few Buttons. I need to add some buttons / snaps to the carpet to hold it down is there any upgrade to the typical chrome/black button heads
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Hey MrG,
Nice work. I did sort-a the same thing back a few years ago on our then 2006 22' kayot deck boat with 250HP 5.7L V-8. The original carpet was showing some age and we'd learned about the new "Luxury Vinyl" flooring that had been out for only a short time. It sounded interesting so we checked out a couple of upholstery places here in town and found some that those places had installed. We liked it so, we ordered up some from the same place I ordered my commercial sewing machine. The company is called "Sailrite" and they have anything and everything concerning sewing machines, material, boat flooring, upholstery, outdoor and indoor fabrics and a whole lot more. I also ordered up some what's called "Binding" to sew around the perimeter of all that Luxury Vinyl when the pieces were complete.
I'd also ordered up some of Sailrites own specifically designed snaps that are stainless steel. They're installed with the use of a rivet gun, way cool! When the project was all done and installed, the CEO and I were totally jazzed and it looked factory. It was a bit of a tedious job and it took a while but, it was also quite fun. I and we were both really proud of it. To us, it looked waaaaay better with the luxury vinyl flooring than it did with the original carpet. Kinda way more modern.
Scott
Nice work. I did sort-a the same thing back a few years ago on our then 2006 22' kayot deck boat with 250HP 5.7L V-8. The original carpet was showing some age and we'd learned about the new "Luxury Vinyl" flooring that had been out for only a short time. It sounded interesting so we checked out a couple of upholstery places here in town and found some that those places had installed. We liked it so, we ordered up some from the same place I ordered my commercial sewing machine. The company is called "Sailrite" and they have anything and everything concerning sewing machines, material, boat flooring, upholstery, outdoor and indoor fabrics and a whole lot more. I also ordered up some what's called "Binding" to sew around the perimeter of all that Luxury Vinyl when the pieces were complete.
I'd also ordered up some of Sailrites own specifically designed snaps that are stainless steel. They're installed with the use of a rivet gun, way cool! When the project was all done and installed, the CEO and I were totally jazzed and it looked factory. It was a bit of a tedious job and it took a while but, it was also quite fun. I and we were both really proud of it. To us, it looked waaaaay better with the luxury vinyl flooring than it did with the original carpet. Kinda way more modern.
Scott
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That looks great good Job!