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Tech Talk => Projects => Topic started by: 88CARRERA on August 09, 2011, 05:24:33 PM

Title: To add a floor or?
Post by: 88CARRERA on August 09, 2011, 05:24:33 PM: should i just put a floor accross this or leave the stringers exposed?
help
Chris
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: ka0tyk on August 09, 2011, 05:34:13 PM: i wish i wouldve left my floor open. having that extra depth in a shallow 18' helps a lot, especially with seating and legroom.
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: 88CARRERA on August 09, 2011, 05:44:54 PM: does anyone have any floor pics?
stringers/no stringers?
i can t decide whether to put the carpet on the stringers, paint the stringers? EEEEhhhhh :banghead:

chris
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: Ralph Brunt on August 09, 2011, 06:06:08 PM: leave stringers exposed and carpet the floor around them, good clean stringers look so bithchen
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: Tio Pancho on August 09, 2011, 06:09:32 PM: X2 on the depth and leg room. As for the stringers I think they look best painted. Besides, anywhere you put carpet is just one more place to hold water. In fact Bebo is outside right now sanding down his stringers so that we can repaint the bilge, transom and stringers.

Gotta love fiberglass work on a hot day!
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: Ralph Brunt on August 09, 2011, 06:36:34 PM: Quote from: Tio Pancho on August 09, 2011, 06:09:32 PM
X2 on the depth and leg room. As for the stringers I think they look best painted.
paint hides issues that my come up, such as delam
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: Watts420 on August 09, 2011, 07:29:46 PM: Quote from: Ralph Brunt on August 09, 2011, 06:06:08 PM
leave stringers exposed and carpet the floor around them, good clean stringers look so bithchen

X2
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: 88CARRERA on August 09, 2011, 08:35:36 PM: What grit sand paper should I use to smooth them out, then what to use to buff them?

Chris
Title: Re: To add a floor or?
Post by: ka0tyk on August 09, 2011, 09:05:21 PM: wet sand and cut with a buffer.

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