Pontoon Boats and carpet replacement?

I am in the process of replacing the carpet on my pontoon boat. I am thinking of replacing it with indoor/outdoor carpet tiles. Can these be used on boats? Has anyone ever done this? and if so, how did it turn out?|||make sure you use a rubber back carpet invest in some good stuff


the plastic looking shag is better to work,with and less expensive butt it sheds and does not repel the water.


the good stuff hard to work with,butt feels a lot better and repels the water well,buy all purpose carpet adhesives and stick it down at temp higher then 50 degrees and you r done and use a good hook knife or carpet knife.....|||I would not use the carpet tiles as they will come up on the corners after time from the sun and water .I would use the one piece roll out indoor -outdoor carpet and just glue it down and tack it on the sides an ends if its going over plywood.|||I worked for a boat dealer for many years and have done many of these carpet replacements. Being a baot dealer, we only used the carpet supplied by the manufacture. We would remove all the furnature (seats, steering helm and the like) until we we down to the plywood. Next, we would remove any of the carpet that stuck to the plywood as well as any of the old adhesive that was left behind. Sometimes, this would call for a little sanding. Next, we would roll out the new carpet on the shop floor next to the boat we were working on to allow it to flatten out (if doing this job in the colder months, this would require it to sit overnight in our heated shop to fully allow the carpet to flatten). Once the new carpet was ready to go, we would lay on this super strong adhesive to the plywood (the worse it smelled, the better it worked!) and lay the carpet onto the boat. You would have maybe a couple of minutes to manuever the carpet into place and that's it . . . so having someone help you with this step would be beneficial. Next, we would cut off any overhanging sections of the carpet and make sure there were no lumps in the carpet. Now, we would allow the adhesive to set up . . . usually overnight would suffice. The only thing left to do now would be in reinstall the furnature and steering helm. Not too big of a job, especially if, as I stated earlier, you enlist some help.





Hope this gets you going in the right direction!