who has pulled up the floor in a 80's carver

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dmunneke

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I will need to get under the floor, how hard, screwed, glued, what else ?
 
What model and year? What area of the boat? Carpet? Teak? Aftermarket?
Jim
 
If it's one of the Montego or Santego series boats, they are all fiberglass liners, so you're gonna have to cut it out. If it's another model, you should be able to just unscrew the wood panels in the salon area...but the forward area may also be a liner. If it's a 90's or newer model, the panels are screwed and bonded to aluminum frameworks, or liners...depending on model and location.
 
its an 85 mariner.. the salon floor is wood.. the head and forward cabin are liners. In that its wood.. Did they lay the wood on the floow and place caninets etc.. on top. I will have to remove the entire wet bar/ air conditioner etc.. then cut an access on the floor just on the other side from the shower to get access..
 
dmunneke - As you figure things out, please update. I have an 86 Mariner and all the tubing for the head and shower run underneath the bathroom flooring and I have no clue how to get under there and fear having to saw holes to get to things. I am planning putting a new head in next spring but I think I am going to reroute the poo tube because I have no clue how to get at it.
 
spaceman - I can help you out for some stuff already.. I have already dont the head, tubes tank and most of the plumbing.. The poop tube runs under the head and bedroom sink cabnet floors.. There are screws in the bottom of the cabinet floors that will allow you to remove.. Then of course pull out the drawers and housing under the forward birth and you can get at it.. Be forewarned.. The tubes are a bitch to get out.. I took all the tanks etc out ( easy enough ) but could not get the poop tube out. I finally climed into the bilge where the tank was and began to pull like the devil on the tube. Finally it came out with a terrible wood cracking noise.. There was still a chunk of plywood stuck to it with about a gallon of sillocone around it all. But once I got it out getting the new one back was only half as hard.. Do yourself a favor and use the super high end black felxable hose ( has gren strip and wire reinforment.. Its much for flexable than the white semi-flexable PVC. I did the White and it was beastly to manouver. The water lines run through the AC compartment under the wet bar and alongthe wall behind the shower to the head shower, then sink then bedroom sink., The head raw water intake goes from the the through hull ( in the access in front of the bar ) forward and around to the head. Caution.. These hoses are also siliconed in and hard to remove. I converted by head to fresh water and took a T off the sink cold.
The whole head/bedroom area is one huge piece of fiberglass so its a bit tricky but you can get think fed around under it.. Ill wont likely find to much more as I cut up my floor. I just need access to the underside of the shower drain and there is no way to get to it short of this..
 
Craig...not sure if you know or not, but the 85 and 86 model year Mariners are totally different boats. The '85 is the last year of the old style and the '86 is the first year of the "Orca" Mariner. The 1986 is a complete fiberglass liner boat.
 
RamSport - That is what I thought as I read dmunneke's post. Mine totally doesn't look like that when I look around. My fear is what you are saying, no real way to get at that without cutting. There is no access hole to get at the area under the head, sink, or shower on my 86 that I can find. There is a small hole under the fridge that I can get to when I pull the drawer out from under the fridge, but it is barely big enough for me to stick my arm in there and no way to see under it. No clue how to see where the water lines run once they go into the stringer right under the fridge in the galley access hole.
 
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