Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

[Darren Nemeth]

According to http://www.csctextiles.com/nau.htm Deco Dot vinyl flooring is discontinued. The color "brite blue" was the one I needed for my Batboat. However, these days I would not have been able to afford it until the beginning of next month. I am out of luck and NEVER want to use carpet or the alternatate Nautolex Seaway-Design because I've seen it in person and the texture is a dirt trap.

That is my delima. What other floor coverings should I look into. Carpet is out of the question and it has to have a sleek 60s look to it. Rhino lining will not work at all for what I am going for.

I did many searches on the net and can't find more than 3 or 4 sellers of blue deco dot. Is there someplace I missed?

OR should I just look into that expensive garage floor paint and dye it blue?

My original flooring in this Glastron had some sort of textured flooring laminated on top.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

http://www.durabakcompany.com/marine3.htm and check out the colors available.

Do a search for Durabak in the restoration section and a few people have used it with great results.

How's that for an alternative?

 

[Nippissinger]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

http://www.ducan.com/products.php

Here is another popular hit....It is reasonably priced here in Canada.
This looks like the same stuff as on most washdown decks..

Just another choice..

Will

 

[fishrdan]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

One of the guys used this stuff for the deck of his boat and it looked really nice, I've also seen it in new boats.

http://www.bltllc.com/commercial_industrial_floor.htm

 

[Spinnaker]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

According to http://www.csctextiles.com/nau.htm Deco Dot vinyl flooring is discontinued. The color "brite blue" was the one I needed for my Batboat. However, these days I would not have been able to afford it until the beginning of next month. I am out of luck and NEVER want to use carpet or the alternatate Nautolex Seaway-Design because I've seen it in person and the texture is a dirt trap.

That is my delima. What other floor coverings should I look into. Carpet is out of the question and it has to have a sleek 60s look to it. Rhino lining will not work at all for what I am going for.

I did many searches on the net and can't find more than 3 or 4 sellers of blue deco dot. Is there someplace I missed?

OR should I just look into that expensive garage floor paint and dye it blue?

My original flooring in this Glastron had some sort of textured flooring laminated on top.

This is this stuff I was going to use. Not available? Damn. Do you know if these guys would have any? http://www.yourautotrim.com/nadedotfl.html
I got this link from iboats.
I do have a contact I was going to call when I got a chance That has a very similar decking to Deco Dot only it isn't as smooth to the feel and seems to have cork embedded into the rubber. I saw a sample and it is very nice stuff.
I will give them a call tomorrow and give an update in this post as to the price.

 

[Darren Nemeth]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

This is this stuff I was going to use. Not available? Damn. Do you know if these guys would have any? http://www.yourautotrim.com/nadedotfl.html
I got this link from iboats.
I do have a contact I was going to call when I got a chance That has a very similar decking to Deco Dot only it isn't as smooth to the feel and seems to have cork embedded into the rubber. I saw a sample and it is very nice stuff.
I will give them a call tomorrow and give an update in this post as to the price.

The color blue isn't available. The rest still seems to be.

garysupholstery.com will send you a small sample of that deco dot. I have a sample in gray and it is real nice stuff.

I ended up going with this...
http://batboat.blogspot.com/2009/10/floor-vinyl-is-here.html

Gary's Upholstery had it. No one else did.

BTW, I recently went to a boat and fishing show. Nearly all the craft there had the gray version of the flooring I bought. Few others had carpet (in a fishing boat? yuck) and one had a green version of the flooring. Seems to be popular stuff with manufactures and buyers.

 

[cc190cc]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

Cabelas sells a rubber dotted material that im going to use, its not to expensive either. Im not sure if they have blue. Im thinking the choices are grey or tan.

 

[Darren Nemeth]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

Cabelas sells a rubber dotted material that im going to use, its not to expensive either. Im not sure if they have blue. Im thinking the choices are grey or tan.

Yea, that is Nautolex.

 

[Thuffjr]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

I was looking into decko dot but cant seem to find anywhere that has samples. I have a local west marine that can order it but no samples. Does anyone have experience with this stuff? is it soft enough for bare feet?

 

[Darren Nemeth]

Re: Options in marine vinyl floor covering?

I was looking into decko dot but cant seem to find anywhere that has samples. I have a local west marine that can order it but no samples. Does anyone have experience with this stuff? is it soft enough for bare feet?

Yep. Nice and soft.

I can mail you my large sample, if interested. Just email an address and its yours. Or Gary's Upholstery .com will send a smaller one.