replace floor in wood boat

Floor Replacement One of the most common areas of damage on fiberglass and pontoon boats is deteriorated or rotted-out cockpit/deck flooring. The reasons are obvious: water saturation through leaking glass laminate and plywood. Sometimes this can be repaired by treating the existing wood or by drilling access holes

It's very easy to put a new floor in most aluminum boats, so the down side of a low cost job not holding up long enough and needing to be done again isn't as critical as on a fiber glass boat. Cheap exterior plywood and some kind of deck or porch paint for wood will hold up for several years and just use

Feb 14, 2017 I went to several websites and found that the ones that talked about repairing floors and the like were basically shills for products. "Come to me," they said, "follow our procedures, and buy our products here." I went to the newsgroup, rec.boats, where I learned a lot of things. I learned that. people should

Jul 18, 2017 Other repairs require removing fixtures or carpets that prevent access to the damaged floor in a boat. The methods used to make minor repairs to wood and fiberglass floors in a boat are similar in many ways. Major repairs or repairs to aluminum boat floors should be assigned to an experienced repair shop

I have serious rot in the plywood floor of my 17 ft. Lund alum. fishing boat. It will need to be totally replaced, and I plan to do it myself. Is it

Jan 8, 2013 Boat floor replacement Reza, After I set the stringers to the floor using the epoxy peanut butter, I raped the stringers with fiberglass to the boat hull, overlapping the fiberglass about six inches from stringer to boat hull. . I think for all that work you might have chosen a wood, or synthetic wood flooring.

After you have cleaned the area, you will want to remove all of the damaged wood. This will be very easy to do because it will literally be crumbling. You cannot repair the boat floor while rotten wood remains as it will only continue to rot. Once you are confident that the rotten sections have been removed, you can start to

Normal boating activities, such as fishing and water skiing, can bring water into the boat. Wood floors can rot when they have had standing water on them for too long. If you have rotting wood in your boat, you will notice that the floor feels soft when you walk on it. You will either have to pay to have the floor replaced or