MASTER Brian
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2006
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I'm looking on opinions for both on my pontoon. The furniture got partially destroyed during storage & theft at a repair facility and if I'm going to replace the furniture, I figure it's time to do the carpet as well.
As for the furniture I had already replaced the front flip style fishing seats with some buckets from Pontoon Stuff and they were a great price and I like the look/feel, so I'm looking heavily at them for the rest, unless someone has a better option. I see that there are seats on this site, I can't recall if I looked at them in the past or not, but will of course check them out.
As for the carpet, should I look for a certain weight of carpet? Should I even go with carpet? I see some people seem to use vinyl, I had thought about something like HydroTurf or some similar product as well. My boat is 18', so it doesn't seem to be a huge difference in price between cheap $11 per foot carpet and the expensive $15 per foot carpet, when it's all said and done. Obviously a $20 per foot vinyl adds a bit, but at that point ~$100 isn't that big of deal if everything else is going new.
I haven't priced the hydro turf yet, but I'm sure it would be much more expensive, so probably out of the question.
While on the subject of carpet/seats, I'm guessing at that point the rails will come down. I've slowly been stripping off the old vinyl decals and painting the panels red, is that something much easier when panels are off....meaning do the aluminum skins pull right out when I pull the rails apart? Not sure if I'll put a graphic on or just go with a plain. My wife works at a place where they can do vinyl graphics, so I might see if we can come up with something fun!!
Haven't filed the claim yet, still trying to discuss with insurance prior and then owner of repair facility prior to the claim, but trying to know where I'm at and what I need to get the boat back right. I realize a lot of this will be on my dime, but if they have to pay a shop to rebuild the old wood based furniture, I'm sure new off the shelf items will be much cheaper! Just not sure how'll they'll decide on that!
As for the furniture I had already replaced the front flip style fishing seats with some buckets from Pontoon Stuff and they were a great price and I like the look/feel, so I'm looking heavily at them for the rest, unless someone has a better option. I see that there are seats on this site, I can't recall if I looked at them in the past or not, but will of course check them out.
As for the carpet, should I look for a certain weight of carpet? Should I even go with carpet? I see some people seem to use vinyl, I had thought about something like HydroTurf or some similar product as well. My boat is 18', so it doesn't seem to be a huge difference in price between cheap $11 per foot carpet and the expensive $15 per foot carpet, when it's all said and done. Obviously a $20 per foot vinyl adds a bit, but at that point ~$100 isn't that big of deal if everything else is going new.
I haven't priced the hydro turf yet, but I'm sure it would be much more expensive, so probably out of the question.
While on the subject of carpet/seats, I'm guessing at that point the rails will come down. I've slowly been stripping off the old vinyl decals and painting the panels red, is that something much easier when panels are off....meaning do the aluminum skins pull right out when I pull the rails apart? Not sure if I'll put a graphic on or just go with a plain. My wife works at a place where they can do vinyl graphics, so I might see if we can come up with something fun!!
Haven't filed the claim yet, still trying to discuss with insurance prior and then owner of repair facility prior to the claim, but trying to know where I'm at and what I need to get the boat back right. I realize a lot of this will be on my dime, but if they have to pay a shop to rebuild the old wood based furniture, I'm sure new off the shelf items will be much cheaper! Just not sure how'll they'll decide on that!