floor repairs

beradtke · #1 11-06-2007, 10:49 PM

ok all time has come for me to make the descision on how to fix my floor . the boat has 2 soft spots in the floor. #1 is by the anchor locker and fish box, runs the hole length of the front casting platform area by the anchor box. # 2 is right behind the the fuel tank hatch area just bows a lil when i stand on it. my thought are the the areas are servicable from out side with out removing the cap or cutting the hole floor out. so should i just patch them or cut it out and start new . this is the original floor in the boat i belive. any thoughts or tips appricated

reelclassic · #2 11-07-2007, 10:50 PM

I have pretty much the exact same soft spots that you desceibed... I plan on doing the whole floor so I know its done right and no problems/patch work later. would like to see pics as the work is being done I plan on starting mine hopefully in January!

beradtke · #3 11-08-2007, 10:21 PM

yeah mine is less then half of a piece of plywood to replace in the soft spots so i dont see the need (or have enough money/time ) to rip the hole cap off of it. i was thinking about this?just cutting the top half of the floor up and recoring the ,center and putting the old half of the floor back down and awgripping it. am i crazy or wouold this work??

reelclassic · #4 11-08-2007, 11:05 PM

Hmmm...Thats a ? for the pro's....And I am definitly not a pro!!!

Blue197320 · #5 11-08-2007, 11:45 PM

well if i am not mistaken you can cut the soft wood down to the bottom of the liner as big as u need to remove. then u can dig all the old wood out. then just replace like that. put the new wood in coated with resin and a layer of cloth under it then do the same thing on the top. build it up to the same layer as the surrounding floor and fair and paint. thats what i did in a section in my floor. it worked out for me. was very easy actually.

beradtke · #6 11-11-2007, 09:44 AM

now that right there was what i wanted to here. so just cut the top layer with a angle grinder, dig out old wood,put in new resin covered wood and put old floor down over it. do you have any pictures of it when you did it to you boat? just would like to see how it went so i can figuer how challenging this is going to be.

Blue197320 · #7 11-12-2007, 10:32 PM

hey
i looked in my photobucket for pics of that floor repair. im sorry i dont have any. but i can tell u that it only took me about 2 days after work to do it start to finish. the piece i cut out was a funny shape so i took a few pieces of plywood and puzzed it together on top of the wet cloth i put down. then i poured resin in to fill the gaps around the puzzle pieces. then i put a few more layers of cloth on top of the wet resin and let it soak the resin up. it was close to the original height so i didnt need to add much filler. then i sanded and primed it. i still need to paint the whole floor in my boat but its gonna need to to be ripped up in a year or two so im not going to finish it yet. but u can do it. trust me. anything else just ask.