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Padded carpet install, what to make it stick?
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<blockquote data-quote="bassboy1" data-source="post: 322965" data-attributes="member: 55"><p>I don't think the contact cement gets rigid, but I usually use it only to stick the pad to the deck, not the carpet to the pad. I have a hard time laying larger pieces with contact cement without a second person (if a corner drops too soon, it's stuck), so for larger spans, I use a trowel on glue, which I know does not get rigid. When I've installed the pad, I'll use either contact cement or the glue to attach the pad to the deck, then use the glue to attach the carpet to the deck. </p><p></p><p>I've always had concerns with the pad too, so I tend to make it undersized. It generally gets installed on the bow deck area, not on hatch lids, so I undersize the pad by about 3" all the way around. This gives the carpet 3" of metal to bond to all the way around, which I <em>know</em> it will stick to, and somewhat 'traps' the padding. </p><p></p><p>This also allows the inside corner where the deck meets the hull side to be bonded solid (assuming you're wrapping the carpet up the sides). The concern there is that if the pad is at the edge of the deck, and someone steps on the edge, the pad will try to compress, but the carpet is still suspended by the side of the boat. Short of gluing in a wrinkle to allow for that movement, the best solution I found was to cut the pad short.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bassboy1, post: 322965, member: 55"] I don't think the contact cement gets rigid, but I usually use it only to stick the pad to the deck, not the carpet to the pad. I have a hard time laying larger pieces with contact cement without a second person (if a corner drops too soon, it's stuck), so for larger spans, I use a trowel on glue, which I know does not get rigid. When I've installed the pad, I'll use either contact cement or the glue to attach the pad to the deck, then use the glue to attach the carpet to the deck. I've always had concerns with the pad too, so I tend to make it undersized. It generally gets installed on the bow deck area, not on hatch lids, so I undersize the pad by about 3" all the way around. This gives the carpet 3" of metal to bond to all the way around, which I [i]know[/i] it will stick to, and somewhat 'traps' the padding. This also allows the inside corner where the deck meets the hull side to be bonded solid (assuming you're wrapping the carpet up the sides). The concern there is that if the pad is at the edge of the deck, and someone steps on the edge, the pad will try to compress, but the carpet is still suspended by the side of the boat. Short of gluing in a wrinkle to allow for that movement, the best solution I found was to cut the pad short. [/QUOTE]
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