10-15-2010, 03:23 PM
I ended up ordering some carpet through my father in law, who is a carpet layer. Honestly, if I knew how much work it was to do I might not have done it. The carpet laying wasn't horrible, it was getting all of the various sections of floor out of the boat. I had my boat torn down for about 3 weeks. I did end up having to EZOUT several screws (much harder to do with stainless hardware).
Job came out fantastic. I've got some pics, but not on this computer. I posted them up over on Freeformfishing.com. My advice would be: order the carpet ahead of time, have a father in law who knows a lot more about laying carpet than you, and do it in the off season when you have plenty of time to do it. As far as man hours I have a 17' Lund. It took me 2 full days to do tear down (15-16 hours), my father in law and myself a day and a half to lay and wrap everything and another full day by myself reinstalling hardware and putting sections back down.
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Job came out fantastic. I've got some pics, but not on this computer. I posted them up over on Freeformfishing.com. My advice would be: order the carpet ahead of time, have a father in law who knows a lot more about laying carpet than you, and do it in the off season when you have plenty of time to do it. As far as man hours I have a 17' Lund. It took me 2 full days to do tear down (15-16 hours), my father in law and myself a day and a half to lay and wrap everything and another full day by myself reinstalling hardware and putting sections back down.
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