SeaDek vs Carpet: How Does it Compare Cleaning & Viability Long Term?

[Cleveland Steamer]

Want some feedback from some of you that have had carpet in your boat for at least 6 months, and then switched to SeaDek (preferably from JetBoatPilot since that's where I'm thinking of buying from)...

Here's the deal... I've got a new boat and carpet. I've planned from the beginning to eventually get SeaDek because I love the way it looks.
Now that I've had the boat for 2 months, I've noticed that I'm ALWAYS cleaning the thing! Dirt sticks to the white seats like crazy! The stock hydroturf on the rear swimdeck also gets stained incredibly easy. But, one thing I don't feel like I ever have to clean is the floor! The carpet just seems to mask any dirt, and all I ever do is go around the edges of the carpet once in awhile and pickup the dirt that's accumulating there.

Ironically, I feel like I'm always cleaning everything BUT the carpet, which always seems to just look clean and nice. I pulled it out only once to shake it off and clean underneath, and probably didn't really even need to. No mold/smell issue, or anything like that. So now I'm questioning whether or not it's really a good idea to put SeaDek in.

For those of you that have had carpet for long enough to get used to it with cleaning, and have switched to SeaDek - what are your thoughts regarding cleaning? Do you find you have to vacuum the SeaDek more, scrub it? Does dirt show up more than carpet? Does the dirt accumulate in all of those grooves and become annoying to clean? Any other discoveries in favor for or against SeaDek over carpet?

Thanks!!

I feel the same as you. I feel the factory carpet (which isn’t really carpet at all) is better that the sea deck.

The sea deck at the rear of my boat seems to get dirty and gold the dirt. However, the ‘carpet’ seems to NEVER need cleaning.

based on this I’m keeping my factory carpet.

 

[Sean R]

I had a 2017 Ar190 with carpet and it never looked dirty but was starting to look warn out from foot traffic not bad but getting there. Now i have a 2020 212S and the marine mate is Really nice but only been out six, only time will tell how it will hold up. But like I said before if my carpet still looked good, I wouldn't upgrade till it was crap.