Everything is getting wet!

[Davydine]

Good evening all,

Does anyone know of any companies in the Burnham / Maldon / Colchester area that will refurbish aluminium boat windows. We have just bought a Moody 34 and every time it rains we get a wet chart table and bunks and heads and galley - you get the picture. I dread to think what it would be like in a heavy sea!

I have managed to get the windows out of the boat but I don't think i can take the perspex out of the frames without damaging them, and i don't really want to go to the expense of complete new windows. I have been recomended a chap in Seavenoaks - Kent but wondered if there was somebody closer to home.

Thanks in advance....
David

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[VicS]

Are you sure that they actualy need refurbishing or are (were) the leaks between the frames and the cabin sides. We took the windows out of a Westerly a few years back and refitted them without refurbishment but with total success.

The chap in Sevenoaks is easy to find being located in some converted ex farm buildings off the Otford road not far from Sainsbury's.

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[AndrewB]

Try these people ...

Branchsound Ltd (Technautic Marine Windows), Unit 9, Burnham Business Park, Springfield Road, Burnham-On-Crouch, Essex CM0 8TE. Tel: (01621 782964).

I am a satisfied customer. I went to them after an unsatifactory experience with the Sevenoaks guy.

 

[Davydine]

Unfortunately yes, the boat has sat in the Spanish sun for several years and you can see that in places the sealant round the perspex has broken down, although the water is probably coming in round the frames as well!


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[A_7]

Get in touch with Crouch Marine Windows.

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[owen]

are they the sort of windows that have split frames held together with 4 screws either end. if so you could do the refurbish youself. just split the window; clean all the old mastic etc out . then u should mask the frames to keep the sealant off the exposed frame. uuse the best sealnt which is basically a polyurethane type such as sikkaflex.if u contact martin fox in moody,s he will sell you some 2 part putty for fiting the window and frame into the boat. it is fiddly but not difficult. the main thing is to mask everything because removing xs sikka is v diff,

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[Talulah]

Also worth mentioning that when you refit the windows you don't want the tightening of the windows to squeeze out all the sealent. Instead, insert some spacers to keep the frames from touching the fibreglass.

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[dickh]

Another contact in the Norfolk area is Seaglaze just north of Norwich - Tel 01603 720745

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[charles_reed]

I\'d strongly recommend

Salford House Services - he's about the closest to you of the people who actually do it as opposed to those who just act as middlemen.

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[gtmoore]

I have a Moody 29 which I think has the same type of windows as the 34. I refurbished them myself but refitted the frames back into the coachroof sides using neoprene tape (from the Sevenoaks guy).

No leaks in a couple of years and no mess.


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