Can You Place Carpet Over Rusted Floorpan

We set out to show the different ways you can fix a floor using this 1960 pontiac catalina where severe rust and rot had damaged its floorpans and trunk floor.

Can you place carpet over rusted floorpan.

This patches the holes and adds a strong layer over the floor pan which can actually improve the strength of the entire floor pan. We used a hypertherm powermax45 xp plasma system. Scrap off the old seam sealer from around the remaining edges of the floor. If necessary to break the adhesion bond between the carpet and floor pan.

Sometimes you can get away with minimal patch work but far too often the pans are completely wasted. It saves on the cost and labor of pulling up and disposing of the existing carpet keeping carpet waste materials out of the landfill. Riveting in a patch sealed with rtv will work if you re feeling cheap. Carpet in place.

Just removing carpet along can take a quarter sized holes and turn it in to a dollar sized cavity. Also if the rust started from the inside leaky t tops window seals etc fix that or it will just. The floor in the 73 duster we used for. Weld spatter travels far and will bury itself into the surface of any glass it hits you can get it off with an acrylic scraper but the glass will be permanently pitted.

And if the existing carpet was glued down not tacked it can be a huge time saver to lay the new carpet over the old. By madcat x1 len gates in the uk provided this important caution. I would love to see pics of your progress and all the best with your project too. Wear a dust mask and eye protection.

Even an otherwise rust free car will often have some swiss cheesing of the floors 40 years of wet shoes and the occasional bust ed heater core take a toll. On the face of it installing new carpet over the old carpet does have some advantages. On any repairs that require welding cover all the glass on the car and on any other cars in the workshop where you re working. Then you want to put in a patch.

A good tip for you place a thin layer of plastic or cling film under the lid to stop it sealing itself shut if you have any left over. If you have built an older car chances are you have had to deal with rusty floor pans. You can use a cut off wheel or reciprocating saw to cut the floorpan. A better method is to weld in a patch remember to paint that area on the outside under of the car so that it doesn t rust over again.