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Prop up the bottom half of the fiberglass floor from below until level again. Put the old carpeting back in until you get the time this fall - winter to rip out the entire floor and the foam and the stringers etc and rebuild it correctly.
Get boat off of the trailer and support under keel and edges.
How to rebuild a boat floor. You can save yourself a lot of headaches down the line if you simply work to prevent some of the most common boat floor problems. Dont let mold or rot set in you can do this by regularly cleaning and drying out your boat floor. Clean up the water and find a way to reduce the moisture.
It is also a good idea to seal your boats floor. If the floor is new it needs to be sealed. At the same time it may very well be a good idea to seal the floor on a regular basis.
For instance you can seal. May 30 2007. Non-wood materials to rebuild a boat floor.
Pressure treated wood will give the biggest bang for the buck and never have rot worries. Greenwood brand pressure treated xl ply panels are what boat mfgs use but you may have a. Step 1 - Remove the Damaged Flooring.
The most common material used for boat flooring is BC plywood and it is also used for fiberglass boats in particular. Start removing the old damaged material using an electric saw to cut it. If the stringers and bulkheads are rotten get them replaced with fiberglass ones.
Repairing the Soft Spot in Your Boat Floor. If the problem is due to fiberglass weakening youll want to sand the affected area until the soft spot is noticeably lower than the surrounding area. In fact in certain spots you might sand all the way through the fiberglass.
If you use a fiberglass repair kit youll want to follow the given. Get boat off of the trailer and support under keel and edges. Make cardboard template of sole where it narrows at the front.
Rip out old sole and floors. Save floors for template of side to side hull curve whenever possible. Put the old carpeting back in until you get the time this fall - winter to rip out the entire floor and the foam and the stringers etc and rebuild it correctly.
Then you can coat the floor with Truck bed Liner. Boat flooring imparts many benefits to a boats hull. The supporting framing and floor can add stiffness and support to a hull.
The flooring creates a dead-air space just above the hulls bottom that can add bouyancy to a boat made from materials with no inherent bouyancy such as fiberglass steel or aluminum. First you need to make sure you know what you are getting into. Many times the whole cap has to come off to replace the floor thats a pretty good job in its own.
Then you have to support the hull because when you remove the floor it can spread open like a clam shell. When you install the new floor and go to put the top back on it wont fit. Here are 11 tips to keep in mind when restoring an older boat.
Take an inventory of your tools and then roll up your sleeves and start. Clean the boat from stem to stern so you can see exactly what you have to work with. Remove all the water leaves and debris from the boat.
The boat is currently a ghostly empty shell with nothing but a loose BMC 15 engine. With help the engine has now been moved to the back of the boat in preparation for the rebuild of the boats interior. Although its a fibreglass boat it will still require a plywood floor that will need to be reinforced with fibreglass matting.
This is to protect it against the elements and to also form a waterproof structural bond to the hull of the boat. Scrape out the old wet deck core. Prop up the bottom half of the fiberglass floor from below until level again.
Lay down fresh foam core. Epoxy it in place with the original fiberglass top skin layed back revised. I ended up laying brand new fiberglass And finally re-attach the steering pedestal and fittings.
Remove your boats old flooring. Try and keep as much of the old flooring intact as you can use it as a template to measure your new flooring pieces as well as a guide to line up screw holes for reassembling your deck. Leave a three-inch trim of old flooring around the edge of your boat.
I mean just removing the seats dry storage and floor took three separate nights. Can you say many stripped screws So of course neighbors friends and family have all gotten involved. Once your new flooring is complete secure it to the boat and begin placing the fiberglass cloth over it.
Be sure to use a good amount of fiberglass as the decking will need to be strong enough to support people walking over it. Rebuild ing boat floor - hatches Water seal like Thompsons or even a green treated plywood will not last the years you may want. I needed to repace a deck and floor in my tuffy 2 years ago and found that a polyester resin bought at home depot along with fiberglass mating was the ticket to doing this job right.
I started by drilling a few 75-inch holes through the top bottom and sides of the icebox so I could extract and examine a core sample for each hole. I needed to see the details of what kind of insulation had been used and if the spaces between the box the hull and adjacent bulkheads had been filled with foam. Its best to use at least one layer of mat before using woven roving or other heavy cloth.
When thats set cover with heavy glass cloth. This can be done with Epoxy or cheaper polyester resin. Im thinking about getting fancy and using 12 pink foam and epoxy with wood reinforcing strips.
My hatch is giant and heavy. Advantages of Boat Deck Coating Repair with Sani-Tred. Due to unique technical breakthroughs in polymer chemistry a complete marine ship or work boat deck paint fairing and finishing system for pilot houses decks bilge areas vertical or inverted surfaces is now available.
This Rubberized paint on system also adds a slip resistant quality. Rebuild a Rotten Transom. With engines I would have a rugged reliable offshore boat for about 60000.
When I drilled a hole in the transom water leaked out 1 which was to say the least really depressing because a surveyor gave the boat a clean bill of health.