Just installed Hydro Teak

[jetboater4life]

Is the Hydro-turf open cell or closed cell ? Is that part of the issue with algi/clay ?

Regular hydro-turf is open cell and regular sea-deck is closed cell. I would guess that hydro-teak is also open cell.

 

[JetBoatPilot]

I believe that Hydro-Turf is open cell. It will absorb water whereas SeaDek will not. It is advertised to be closed cell foam. That is part of the reason the SeaDek seems to hold up better in the UV than the Hydro-Turf and other similar products.

 

[Trevor Shipman]

Any updates on how the hydroteak is holding up? Any shrinking or easily cut/stained? Thanks!

 

[Bruce]

@Trevor Shipman, I am very happy with the Hydro Teak but I believe @JetBoatPilot has discontinued the product to be a SeaDek only shop.

 

[Trevor Shipman]

Thanks for the reply, I actually called Will at JBP yesterday and they do still offer it. How long have you had the mats on? Do they still look as good as the day you put them on? Any powdering?

 

[Bruce]

@Trevor Shipman, I have had them on for one season. There is absolutely no powdering. They are a thicker material than what came off of my swim deck. I can spot a few imperfections from where I did things like dropping the cordless screw driver philips tip first onto a mat but I get compliments on them every time we take friends out.

 

[Anthony C]

I was lucky enough to get the last of @JetBoatPilot's lighter colored Hydro-Teak material. My Wife and I installed the cockpit mats today and it came out great. The floor feels so much better on our feet, looks great and we got rid of all of the snaps that were no fun to step on. I had cleaned the floor, removed the snaps and filled the snap screw holes with 3M 5200 earlier in the week. The install took 24 minutes to line up, peel and apply the mat pieces.

Here is a picture of the installed mats, I will post more once I get the swim deck kit installed as well.

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I am glad to see these suckers go!

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Hello Bruce,

Can you order a set or piece-by-piece? What was the price range?

Anthony

 

[JetBoatPilot]

The Hydro-Teak material has been discontinued and replaced with SeaDek. You can order those parts as needed.

 

[Bruce]

Hello Bruce,

Can you order a set or piece-by-piece? What was the price range?

Anthony

@JetBoatPilot, is the source of my flooring. He only sells the slightly better SeaDek product now.

 

[maboat]

He only sells the slightly better SeaDek product now.

I've had both Hydro-Teak and SeaDek over the years. IMHO SeaDek is significantly better and it makes sense why that's the only type he sells now.

 

[Beachbummer]

I like the mat idea over the glue down on the sea dek, because I like how the carpet (and snap on sea dek style) covers the screws on the fuel tank panel, vs glue on which goes around the screws.

Any thoughts from those with sea dek on the looks of the middle/main panel, as it skips around the 10+ screws on the floor.

 

[Bruce]

I like the mat idea over the glue down on the sea dek, because I like how the carpet (and snap on sea dek style) covers the screws on the fuel tank panel, vs glue on which goes around the screws.

Any thoughts from those with sea dek on the looks of the middle/main panel, as it skips around the 10+ screws on the floor.

I love the look and feel of the SeaDek and hate the idea of having any kind of removable mat that you would need to remove and clean under. If it is not sealed to the floor debris will get under it and rot.

 

[Matt Phillips]

I like the overall look of these mats however, I changed out the swim platform on my old boat a couple of years back...and getting the old mat residue off was painful. Like others above, the thought of having to do that "sometime in the future" with the entire boat doesn't sound all that fun.

That being said however, if I get 5-6 years out of the carpet in my new boat like I did the old one...I may look at adding this at that time...

 

[Bruce]

@Matt Phillips, My experience removing the factory hydroturf was that cold sections came up easily but those I had sat on and warmed up came off in small pieces. Doing it again I would make sure all of it was cold at the time of removal. If I decide to replace the flooring throughout the boat I will join the pros and use a pressure washer to blast it off. Knowing that I would be placing identical pieces over the top there would be no need to clean up the adhesive.

 

[Matt Phillips]

DOH...that's a great suggestion...I never thought of using the pressure washer on the stuff I took up in the past...I love this forum for ideas like this.