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Friday, 14 May 2010

Carpeting the Boot Install

Got round to carpeting the plywood install in the boot at last with some nice grey acoustic cloth, filched from the skip at work.

I just placed each plywood section onto a piece of the cloth, folded about 3 inches round the back and tacked it down every 4 or so inches along. For the curves and fiddly bits I cut the fabric edge into strips at the corner apexes and at points along the curves, which may not be the professional way, but certainly recreates the shape of the wood well and looks great!

I would recommend sticking the carpet down with spray-glue before tacking the backside, but I didn't bother. As the plywood is so thin, nails and carpet-tacks we're no good, so I used drawing pins, which are the perfect length. This also keeps things cheap and incurs the first cost of the entire install @ £1 for 3 boxes :) - quite amateur looking though, at least they're hidden away.


This has really made the boot look complete and useable! Just a few more finishing touches - a storage area on the right hand side and neatening up the jack compartment on the left side - and it's done.

NB: I have now weighed each part of the install, including the amp and sub-box, and the total comes to 32kg - about 5 stone! - in other words the weight of a small passenger...

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