Can Renovo stain/colour reviver recolour canvas (to change colour)?

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As title, we bought a boat with green canopies, they were in pretty good order but had mildewed slightly, we subsequently had a new canopy made but changed colour to Navy blue.

The new canopy has been on for around three seasons now and requires some general maintenance, mainly cleaning and reproofing which I would do better if I could remove completely and take home to complete.

So not to leave the boat without cover for three weeks I've looked at the original green cover, cleaned it up, removed the mildew and have to say I'm quite suprised at how good it is, it needs reproofing so my thoughts are to do a proper job and revive it using renovo reviver before reproofing, If it works the idea is to us it as a winter cover.

So the question is, I have a choice, the reviver is also a dye, the original cover is turquoise green, renovo is available in dark green, blue, black or brown, I'ts probably obvious that green is the one to have but would it be possible to dye the original green cover to blue?, this would be better as the new canvas is blue and so I could use the same to revive if required the new one when its been cleaned.

No problem doing the original green if thats the best for it but wondered if anyone had tried to dye canvas a different colour and if so how successfull was it ?

Thanks guys
 
Renovo vs Fabsil

Ordered some Renovo to try it, will be testing on some green straps that were onboard but since been removed which are made from the same material as the original cover.

Have used Fabsil (AKA tent waterprooofer) in the past with good results but have been advised this will not be compatible with the original waterproofing (something to do with containing silicone), won't offer the uv stability and doesn't contain mildew suppresants combined with the fact it is said to eat the plastic ( issoglass?) windows I thought it wise to follow the expert info.

Will post results within the next couple of weeks.
 
Renovo colour change

I am in the process of reviving all canvas work on a Leisure 23sl. Mainly to cover over where the original names were on the dodgers and to cover over fading/mould on sprayhood/stack pack. The originals are light blue and I am using navy blue. So far I have used 2 litres @ £26 and can see it is going to take many more. Even after soaking stuff on with a brush it keeps drying patchy, I guess it takes 3-4 coats (I hope) It is messy work, I have been using poly sheet over workbench but when hung up to dry alot drips off onto the floor. On a positive note, the end results are no doubt going to be worth it. Lovely deep colour and very stiff canvas, infact dodgers are like cardboard!
 
thanks.
btw - I called Renovo yesterday after reading your post and asked them about colour changes. They said they've heard of lots of customers doing it successfully, but they don't advertise it because it was not developed for the purpose and hasn't been test for such. Good luck - hope it works, I really want to do mine.
 
Hi,

I'm not sure about how effective a colour change would be but its just turned our very faded red (a nasty pink/orange) back to a really dark rich burgundy. It might work.

We used 1.5l on two dodgers and a spray hood if thats any use to you.
 
Cheers Branflake,
I was wondering about quantity required, how many applications did you give the canopy to use 1.5L? and did you need to do both sides?
Have decided to try a little on some of the straps although these are not as faded as the canopy it should give me some idea of colour compatability.

Will post a couple of before and after shots once completed
 
We only ended up doing one side on the hood. We used about 1lt on that for 2 good coats as it just soaked it up and then the rest on the dodgers.

The hood has a really even colour to it looks really good. I'll try and get a photo as i've got the before shots.

I would have given inside a once over if i'd got a little more left, but its not too bad. I would say you do need to do both sides.
 
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I recoated a sprayhood on a 40ft boat, it was mid blue, the Renovo was darker.
Hood was about 10 years old, quite faded, but otherwise in good condition.
It soaked up loads of the Renovo, so much so that i had to order some more to finish off, cost me over £100 to get a satisfactory result. + reproofing.
12 months later it had faded back to near its original state. Boat lives in UK, not Med.

So would i use it again, no, too expensive and too short lived...
 
the_branflake said:
Hi,

I'm not sure about how effective a colour change would be but its just turned our very faded red (a nasty pink/orange) back to a really dark rich burgundy. It might work.

We used 1.5l on two dodgers and a spray hood if thats any use to you.
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They don't list a red version, so what did you use as I also have a faded red spray hood and would like to improve it
 
upcountry2 said:
I recoated a sprayhood on a 40ft boat, it was mid blue, the Renovo was darker.
Hood was about 10 years old, quite faded, but otherwise in good condition.
It soaked up loads of the Renovo, so much so that i had to order some more to finish off, cost me over £100 to get a satisfactory result. + reproofing.
12 months later it had faded back to near its original state. Boat lives in UK, not Med.

So would i use it again, no, too expensive and too short lived...
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This had crossed my mind, countless applications for the sake of changeing colour will work out expensive, keeping to the same colour would probably require less of the reviver.

I think I may bottle out and apply green to the green cover because I wouldn't want to completely ruin it if the process was unsuccesfull, that said I will need to buy blue for the new cover so will experiment with the straps as before to see how well it does.

Thanks for the feedback.
 
upcountry2 said:
I recoated a sprayhood on a 40ft boat, it was mid blue, the Renovo was darker.
Hood was about 10 years old, quite faded, but otherwise in good condition.
It soaked up loads of the Renovo, so much so that i had to order some more to finish off, cost me over £100 to get a satisfactory result. + reproofing.
12 months later it had faded back to near its original state. Boat lives in UK, not Med.

So would i use it again, no, too expensive and too short lived...
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That's my experience of it too. I used it to recolour an old, faded stack pack, just about did it coverage wise, but left the stack pack much darker than the sprayhood and dodgers. Worked out it would be at least £100 and maybe more to do the lot properly. As everything was coming to the end of its working life I figured it was false economy to go on with it and just ordered new. There's nothing wrong with renovo but if you're using it to give old gear a new lease of life, the coverage is too little and the cost too expensive.

Can't comment on using it to change colours though, but the dye is quite strong and it might work as it stains anything it comes into contact with. It ended up seeping into all the white canvas straps etc on the stackpack which didn't increase my satisfaction with it.
 
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