Keep Your BoatDek Looking Great
Maintaining your Boat Dek flooring is easy and straightforward. This section outlines simple cleaning and maintenance procedures to keep your flooring looking its best and performing optimally. Learn how to remove stains, prevent mold and mildew, and protect your investment.
General Cleaning
Regular cleaning can be easily done using Boat Dek Cleaner, water, and a medium-bristled brush. While Boat Dek is resistant to stains, substances like food, wine, fish blood, or grease may leave marks if left in contact for too long. To prevent staining, it’s best to clean or rinse away spills as soon as possible. For tougher stains, work the cleaner into the area using a medium-bristle brush. If the stain is still present you can spot clean with isopropyl alcohol.
Cleaning Process:
Pre-Wetting: Thoroughly wet the area to be cleaned, ensuring it stays wet throughout the cleaning process to avoid the cleaner drying on the surface.
Starting Point: Begin at the bow and work towards the aft.
Cleaning Sections:
Port Side Bow: Wash the port side bow, then rinse thoroughly with fresh or salt water, ensuring all soapy water is flushed off the boat.
Side Decks: Clean and rinse the side decks, directing the soapy water off the aft.
Starboard Side Bow: Repeat the process on the starboard side bow, following the same rinsing procedure.
Starboard Side Decks: Clean and rinse the starboard side decks.
Aft Cockpit: Clean the aft cockpit and rinse off both sides and the swim platform.
Swim Platform: Finish by cleaning and rinsing the swim platform, if present.
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Boat Dek is highly resistant to most weather conditions and is designed to endure the elements while in use. However, to extend the life of your Boat Dek, it's best to keep your boat, kayak, or other vehicle covered or stored indoors when not in use. Boat Dek should be cared for similarly to vinyl marine seats, carpets, or other floor coverings. Prolonged exposure to sunlight and water can reduce the lifespan of your mats.
Dome-In Boat Dek
Boat Dek’s Dome-In Series should be treated like snap-in carpet. While the mats are designed to withstand getting wet during use or cleaning, they should not be stored in water or on a constantly wet deck. For optimal performance, store the mats snapped in place over a clean, dry deck and keep them under cover when not in use. If the boat will be stored uncovered and exposed to the elements, remove the mats and store them in a dry compartment or another storage area of the boat.
Things To Avoid
Sharp Objects
Sharp objects like knives or tools being dragged across the surface, as they can cause damage
Pressure Washing
Pressure washing with extreme pressure or washing with the nozzle too close can shred or cut the Deck.
Petrol
Prolonged contact with petroleum based products, as they may cause stains that are difficult or impossible to remove.
Sunlight Damage
Light Amplification
Light amplification is a natural occurrence that can take place on boats. When sunlight reflects off surfaces such as windshields, polished stainless steel, or even the boat's gelcoat, it can concentrate in specific areas. This concentrated heat has the potential to cause damage to BoatDek over time.
Does Your Boat Dek Have a Dent?
Don't worry! Boat Dek foam has memory properties. If you notice an indentation in the mats after removing a cover support pole or any other object that has been resting on them for an extended period, the mat will rebound to its original shape within a short time.
Boat Dek Limited Warranty
The BOAT DEK limited warranty grants you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights as required by the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act.
The limited warranty supersedes and replaces any previous warranty offered to the buyer.
WARRANTY COVERAGE:
During the Warranty Period, as defined below, we warrant that the product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship, and excessive fading or polymer degradation resulting from defective materials.
EXCLUSIONS:
This limited warranty does not cover any damage to the product due to:
- Installation of the product onto any surface;
- Adhesion of the product to a boat deck or any other surface to which the product is applied;
- Deformation, fading, discoloration, or polymer degradation of the product resulting from non-defective materials;
- Exposure of the product to temperatures in excess of 73C, which may occur as a result of the amplification of sunlight from reflective surfaces or the passing of sunlight through a refractive medium such as windshields or other structures;
- Failure to follow the product instructions or perform preventive maintenance;
- Modifications to the product;
- Unauthorized repair;
- Normal wear and tear; or
- External causes such as accidents, abuse, or other actions or events beyond our reasonable control.
PERIOD OF COVERAGE:
This limited warranty starts on the date of your purchase and lasts for thirty-six (36) months (the "Warranty Period"). The Warranty Period is not extended if we repair or replace the product. We may change the availability of this limited warranty at our discretion, but any changes will not be retroactive.
REMEDIES UNDER THE WARRANTY:
With respect to any defective product during the Warranty Period, we will, at our sole discretion, either repair or replace the product. You must pay for the shipping fees of the defective product to us, as well as the shipping fees for the return of the repaired or replacement product to you. This is your sole and exclusive remedy, and if this remedy fails its essential purpose, then your remedy shall be limited to the purchase price of the product.
HOW TO OBTAIN WARRANTY SERVICE:
To obtain warranty service during the Warranty Period, you must contact customer service by email at sales@boatdek.co.nz to obtain a warranty claim number. During this process, you may be asked to submit images of the defective area for evaluation. If deemed defective by us, we will repair or replace the defective product in accordance with the terms of this limited warranty.