carpet templates

Strange that no one's set up a business selling defender carpet templates. Could be folded and posted A4 and I'd pay 20 quid for a full set

Business idea there

Well i assume it's because so few have a floor to put them on

More like the smell of damp carpets aint nice!

Less than £100 for a full front set on a 90, I’m not sure I’d bother!

I'm inbetween Chelsea tratterers and Stigs of the Dump. I like nice, classic things like quality furniture, wool carpets, oak and artisan things (not bling and not black furry-felty bootliner). All the water ingress, noise and freezing stuff about tratters is exagerated IMO, and nothing that can't be sorted. There's nothing wrong with being more Benidorm than Barbados, but I want a nice carpet from a carpet shop for the front now and I've decided against wrights moulded stuff, on the basis of asthehics. For all it is (front box and footwells) I'm going to have a nice carpet, use a sponge roller to coat the backing with latex, and change it every year if I need to. A local chap whips the edges for a pound a foot.

Get a piece of cardboard and make you own, you only have to shape one half, just turn it over for the other

Mackers said:

I'm inbetween Chelsea tratterers and Stigs of the Dump. I like nice, classic things like quality furniture, wool carpets, oak and artisan things (not bling and not black furry-felty bootliner). All the water ingress, noise and freezing stuff about tratters is exagerated IMO, and nothing that can't be sorted. There's nothing wrong with being more Benidorm than Barbados, but I want a nice carpet from a carpet shop for the front now and I've decided against wrights moulded stuff, on the basis of asthehics. For all it is (front box and footwells) I'm going to have a nice carpet, use a sponge roller to coat the backing with latex, and change it every year if I need to. A local chap whips the edges for a pound a foot.

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‘Kin hell, I’ve heard it all now!
And no, before you start another thread, there isn’t an LR part number for curtain rails in a 90!

Trouble is carpets trap the water when the defender eventually leaks (and it will eventually leak) and the trapped water rots the footwell in double quick time

flat said:

Trouble is carpets trap the water when the defender eventually leaks (and it will eventually leak) and the trapped water rots the footwell in double quick time

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The way Mackers is going it wouldn’t surprise me if he has the roof tiled before long!

bluedog333 said:

The way Mackers is going it wouldn’t surprise me if he has the roof tiled before long!

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At least the grout will fill in panel gaps

Its not just any damp already in the car, its any water you bring into the car on your footwear, the carpet will hold this water and more thus making the inside of the car damp, so its basically a lose lose situtaion.

Carpet and curtains in a tratter... It will soak up the pig p*ss and smell like it's owner

Hippo said:

Carpet and curtains in a tratter... It will soak up the pig p*ss and smell like it's owner

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Proper rural smells then, fine by me....

I draw the line at reclaimed rosemary tiles and chanee ducrocq curtains, but there are pigless tratterers you know? I have three collies but they're in the back. Why shouldn't we feel nice up front? You obviously all have traditional role SWIMERS (or what ever you call 'em), as it sounds like you're not into a quick clean every fortnight, but another myth is all this "... rot will occur and leaks will come ... you'll need to hope NOAH lets you on the ARK but he's probably gonna tell you to f****off cos you won't be procreating ...". Every week or every fortnight when yer giving your tratter 10 minutes of your time to check the levels and quick hoover/spray with febreeze, quick look at the wells etc. It's no hardship, is it? I've put silent coat and closed cell foam on half of my tratter. I don't think water's coming through the butyl, and if it does, I'll repair it :0). I've found a classic car essex carpeting company. Their on roll synthetic or wool mixed blend doesn't break the bank.. Believe it or not, when I started this thread it never occured to me to make my template (duh). Cheers for the idea.

Use water proof carpet so it can be jet washed clean when taken out.

Hippo said:

Use water proof carpet so it can be jet washed clean when taken out.

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I've looked at outdoor carpet. An option

Hippo said:

Use water proof carpet so it can be jet washed clean when taken out.

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Just hose out the interior in situ

flat said:

Just hose out the interior in situ

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That was my original idea before I bought it. Then I fell in love with it :0) Bit of foam soaked in fairy liquid, wrapped in cling film then shoved in the exhaust and I hump it sideways (only joking, cos I know some of you actually do it)

Hippo said:

Carpet and curtains in a tratter... It will soak up the [pig] p*ss and smell like it's owner

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Edited for the likes of Mackers and other non-pig owners of Tratters.