Fed Up with SHMBO – I’ll do it Myself !

[martynwhiteley]

Most will know that I’ve spent a great part of the last 3 months in a very warm and cramped engine room completing my diesel re-power. Now you’d have thought it would have been an ideal opportunity for SHMBO to tart up the cabin a bit and upgrade the soft furnishings. Has she done this? Nope, never went near it when it was out of the water. Timed it all wrong really, ‘cos the previous model was a soft furnishings specialist, but this one’s just a hard liquor specialist!

So it looks like I’ll have to take on the task myself, as the winter project. However, since there are the usual ‘one or two’ water leaks from the (plastic) cabin windows, I think it would be worth doing a major refurbishment exercise on them, before I think about upgrading the head lining (the main item I want to improve).

Since the windows are a good few years old now, and a bit scratched, I’m wondering if it would be worth getting some new replacements made up, rather than just re-sealing the old ones.

My questions:-

1. Any good (cheap) suppliers of custom plastic (tinted) windows, and ballpark costs?

2. What would be the ballpark cost of having the headlining done professionally (27ft cruiser), and anybody know any good (Northern) suppliers?


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[Dave_Snelson]

Martyn - depends on where you are in the North mate.

There is a place in Porthmadog, North Wales that did an excellent job on my friend's Shetland. Four windows, nice job, done in a day - £120.

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[tcm]

Any upholstere should be able to to it - they need to make sure they use stainles steel fittings/staples of course, but other than that just find an upholsterer WITHOUT the word "marine" in the name of the company and make sure you see an example of their work first.

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[jon_bailey]

A hard licker specialist - ohhhhh as PaulineB would say.

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[martynwhiteley]

Yes, but the drinky version is required before the licky version /forums/images/icons/wink.gif .

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[stamfordian]

I had some windows made at the local glaziers ,using the old one,s as a pattern,on a shetland 535 the cost was approx £58,don,t know if they could do curves through,this was for clear acrilic

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[[448]]

On a point of order, SWMBO.
Cheers, Cleverdick

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[Lynda]

So, nick my heading would you?

I have to say, your's has has more connotations than mine did! - again as Pauline would say ooooooh!

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[martynwhiteley]

Sorry Lynda,

I did mean to give you credit for the title but I forgot.

But as an engineer, I thought it only right that I should stand up for my profession.

Oh dear that dreaded virus worm thingy has got me and is going to shut me down, better post quick



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