Removing Carpet Glue From Boat Deck

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Removing carpet glue from boat deck.

In with the new. Carpet installed on top of fiberglass can typically be found on a boat. How to remove boat carpet from the aluminum floor is my challenge. How to install boat carpet.

During the installation protect your hands with disposable vinyl gloves and work in a well ventilated area. Latex based glue for instance is water soluble and won t work for boat carpet installation. Start with a scraping tool. Be sure to buy a glue that s suitable for marine carpet installation.

I thought i d put out a video on what i currently have figured out with regards to stripping carpet glue from an aluminum boat. But if you ve got a lot of glue and if i remember right your boat had a lot of carpet the glue will tend to clog up your discs and flappers arent cheap. I have scrapped most of the old carpet off my boats front deck but there is a lot of old glue still there that i need to clean off. For this reason after you pull up the carpet you must then spend some time removing the glue that remains stuck to the fiberglass.

I am going to be doing this job myself this time. Removing carpet glue from aluminum discussion in boat repair help started by fishingbuddy4 oct 28 2007. The adhesive used to attach the carpet is more durable than standard carpet glue because it must resist water and temperature fluctuations. Anyone ever do this type of work before and have any good suggestions.

The carpet is pretty bad with those questions in mind i am going to address removing glue and carpet from a wooden pontoon floor and an aluminum floor so read on to find out how you do it what you need hacks and tips and also advice from other pontooners that i trust. Your first measure is to manually remove as much glue as you can with a scraping tool while this may not banish every last bit of carpet glue from the floor. Bks72 jan 14 2008.