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    Never got to show off my carpet job....

    Well thanks to the great advice given on this board along with talking directly with a few guys here who have done their own carpet, I was successfully able to remove my old weathered carpet and install some 24 oz carpet that I ordered from BassCatBoats online. I order 25 feet of the Storm color and had a good amount left over when I finished. I don't have any of the in between shots, which I wish I took, but I can add some advice already given here. First of all your fingere are gonna be sore from all of the wok your about to do with pulling tugging scraping spraying. IF you have rivots..I feel for you, the stainless screws were much easier to work with. I took my time with the removale of the carpet so that I had a good templete to work with...which made the job soooo much easier. I removeble all of the lids and the hardware and placed the pats in zip lock storage bags, then labled he bags as not to be confused later.

    Here are some before shots the carpet is a blue/gray

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    I used a med sized glue scaper with about 10 blades and a sharp ridgid putty knife to begin the initial glue scrape and then sprayed the acetone frpom a spray bottle on the glue to loosen it and then scrape agian with the blades to remove ALLL the glue.
    I used waterproof glue in conjunction with 3M spray contact cement to adhere the carpet to the deck and lids. The process of using the glue on the tops of the lids and placing a weight(cinder blocks, air compressor, dumb bells) on top..then going back in about an hour or so and spraying the lid edges with contact cement was the ticket...Rellay the hardest thing was removing the dang seats..Triton puts screws wayyyyy up in between the cusshions so you can't find them..Thank you Rodney for the help. .

    And the completed project..... Yep, wife said that I didn't need to replace the carpet..but once she saw the finished product she was like WOW..It looks like new again!!!!!!

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    Also added some BLUE WATER LED's....to the front..still have to do the back storage, bilge and Livewells..






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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    That's a nice looking job you done on your own.
    YOU are not entitled to what I have earned!!!!!

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Looks good! Hopefully mine will look that good!

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Looks very nice. Did you put the black trim around the carpet in the floor,or was it already there? I'm in the middle of doing the carpet on mine and would like to find something like that so the edges wont pull up.
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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (ep72)

    wow chris the carpet looks great, i gotta admit it looked good in the first pic but the second pic was night and day

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Chris, sent you an email on your yahoo account.

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (ProcraftMike)

    That boat looks brand new Chris! Nice work and thanks for the plug

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Looks great Chris! I agree, it's a tough job, but well worth the effort!

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (fishinbrad)

    Dude, That looks great!

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Did you have much of a problem with the lids sticking using the 24oz carpet??
    Just can't leave well enough alone!!

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Nice Job Chris!!!

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Capt. Knotreeltight)

    nice job

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Rollo331)

    Looks good

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (cajun1977)

    <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by cajun1977 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wow chris the carpet looks great, i gotta admit it looked good in the first pic but the second pic was night and day </TD></TR></TABLE>

    The first pic was when I first bought the boat

    It was just matted down real hard and lost is 'cushion' factor..very comfy now..
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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Thanks Mike Daleo amd Brad for the help and the lights...I wish I had Mike and the Brads here to help with this.
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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    Heck, you did a great job - all we would have done is cost ya' an extra $100.00 in beer!

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (Chris Brewton)

    VERY professional looking installation. I'm impressed. Did you install the lighting? if you did what did you use?

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    Re: Never got to show off my carpet job.... (FishMoore)

    <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by FishMoore &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">VERY professional looking installation. I'm impressed. Did you install the lighting? if you did what did you use? </TD></TR></TABLE>

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    Only the best

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