Hailing Boom

Plainsman

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What did you use as an adhisive for your new flooring? I received mine and I like it a lot, better than carpet. Going to be putting it in soon when the weather improves.
 

Boomyal

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Re: Hailing Boom

Plainsman said:
What did you use as an adhisive for your new flooring? I received mine and I like it a lot, better than carpet. Going to be putting it in soon when the weather improves.

I went down to my local auto upholstery shop, with an empty (clean) plastic apple juice container and had them fill it with a gallon of bulk upholstery contact cement. (about 18$)

I then laid my flooring out for fit, fan folded it from forward back to the middle ( about 18-24") and from back forward to the middle.

I used a Binks knock off syphon air gun:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=43760

to spray each section, both floor and flooring. I had my wife and son hold up the outer edges of the flooring while I unfolded the section and laid it down from the middle and pressed it forward and outward to keep any bubbles from forming. I did each section the same then returned to the middle and worked my way to the back.

This worked so neat. I expected that the sprayed glue would go everywhere so I masked everything in site. The truth was, I did not need to do that. There was no overspray, the glue went right where I pointed the gun. Looking at the glue, you'd think it was too thick to spray but not so. It was the easiest and neatest thing that I did.
 

Saskatoon2005

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Nice work, would never have assumed you could spray glue, but you learn something every day...LOL!

Patrick
 

Boomyal

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Saskatoon2005 said:
Nice work, would never have assumed you could spray glue, but you learn something every day...LOL!

Patrick

Yeah, if you go watch at an upholstery shop, that's the way they apply it. They keep it in a pot and just grab the gun whenever they need to apply it.

Just an interesting aside Patrick. My Uncle inlaw, 92 y/o, just died on Santa Catalina Island (off the coast of So Cal) where he'd lived for many years. I just found out that he was born in Saskatoon. He was a great guy. He continued to play tennis well into his 80's.
 
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