1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

jonjoshaddison

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I'm attempting my first boat floor repair and so far I have removed the carpet, cut out the rot, cut out replacement pieces of marine plywood and am ready for assembly. I do not want to put carpet back in, and the areas of floor that are not being replace are covered with the rubber backing from the old carpet. I tried sanding, and scraping, with no luck. My son recommended using Laquer thinner to remove the old glue and rubber. It removed the rubber, but left me with a sticky mess. Does any one have any ideas on how I can recover from this disaster?

Thanks, Jon
 

mccrame29

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Re: 1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

It seems for me acetone just about cuts everything...
 

evildocrsx

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Re: 1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

What about Goo-off? (I think that's what it's called) You can find it at Home Depot or Lowe's. I just saw it today, but can't remember the name of it. That's sad:(
 

nitsuj

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Re: 1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

Goo-Gone?
 

otec465

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Re: 1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

What about Goo-off? (I think that's what it's called) You can find it at Home Depot or Lowe's. I just saw it today, but can't remember the name of it. That's sad:(

age does that to us
 

thrillhouse700

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Re: 1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

Why not just replace the whole deck? When I pulled my deck I found soft spots in PARTS like you describe but when it all comes down to it Id rather have a solid deck. Also hows the stringer and transom?
 

vegasphotoman

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Re: 1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

If you want my advice......

An angle grinder with a 100 grit flap disc will remove ANYTHING.:D
including fiberglass and resin.....a light skim over with that sanding disc will clean it up nice
.....Harbor freight has grinders = $15 handy as heck!

is the "goo" drying up after a day or so? the goo might gunk up the flap disc.

a quick light coat with fiberglass resin and a foam roller or brush will leave you with a NEW surface, buy resin by the gallon for $35, since you are already fiberglassing some stuff, quarts dont last long!! get some paper dixie bowls and a couple cheap 88 cent brushes from walmart or wherever..

...I dont use the plasic ones but the horse hair looking ones, they hold up great. if you have a small plastic cap that comes off the fiberglass resin cans, use a little acetone in there to soak your brush in between working on it and waiting for areas to dry, that way the brush is usable for many coats. (yes we went through about 30 brushes for our first boat rebuild) and learned that one the exspensive $$$:eek: way

and...you could....paint with truck bedliner paint, or an oil based gloss paint and leave....
lay down throw rugs (I've seen it, works pretty good) if you want some padding for bare feet

also you can add silica sand to the final coat of paint for a non skid surface.

if you want something to cover the side areas where the carpet used to be, you can spray glue white vinyl upholstery material...check your local craft places, Walmart, Joanns etc, 3M headliner and carpet spray works well.
:)
Hope it helps! .............
 

Mark42

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Re: 1998 Bayliner floor repair, I made a mess...

Just use Acetone. Get it at lowes, home depot, walmart (auto section). The goo-gone and other goo removers are mostly acetone anyway. And acetone by the quart or gallon is the cheapest thing to use (other than gasoline, which I would not reccomend)

Acetone evaporates very fast, and is very flammable and is heavier than air. So it builds up inside a boat. Don't smoke while working. A fan blowing into the boat is a good idea.

A good trick is to pour on the acetone, spread with a brush or spreader then lay some aluminum foil over the top to give it time to work and not just evaporate.

When soft, use a scraper to remove the residue. I found the long handle scrapers that you PULL toward you work 500x better than a putty knife. Get the 18" long scraper with the ball handle over the blade. You kneel and put your weight on the ball, then pull the long handle with your other hand. Easy and very effective.

This one is about $8 at Lowes. I used one similar, just longer, to scrape the entire kitchen floor after removing the sheet vinyl. Worked very well and you can move fast with it. In fact, if you use this, you probably don't need much acetone.

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