carpet

Posted By: Steve, Pleiades, CM26, Albuquerque, NM
Date: 3/8/08 7:05p.m.

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In Response To: Thank you... (Bryan)

I put carpet down, indoor/outdoor type. That was great but I used carpet glue and that was a mistake. I wish I never put it down. It is a major problem getting up. I would have been better off making a removable carpet piece. Does anyone have a good reference for carpet glue remover that won't attack fiberglass? scraping it up with a razor is proving difficult. Moral of the story, carpet is good, but don't make it permanent..... Anyway, regarding that hole you have in the floor under that table. Appearantley the previous owner discovered that false bilge. Its a void that is normally sealed up until someone breaks the keel cable and it smashes into the front of the keel housing, then it leaks into that void. It would be no big deal but when repairing my keel housing I found the wood to not be sealed. Search "false bilge" in the archives. Our floors have a 1/2 inch plywood sandwich, it always worried me about rotting out the floor. After repairing mine I still got water into it, I could never find the source. So I dried out the void this winter by drilling a series of holes and ventilating it witha fan for a month. Then I filled the entire void with expanding foam. My hope is the foam will seal the wood as well as eliminate the void for the water.