Headlining solid panels

[dgadee]

Planning to replace headlining and wondered about the solid panels that upmarket scandinavian yachts seem to have - long and maybe 12" wide and fixed between hardwood wooden battens. This is the interior of a nauticat with the sort of thing I mean:



Any idea where they can be bought?

 

[Sandyman]

No idea where but easy to make.

 

[Tammany]

Mine are solid panels cut to the shape of the roof in 2pieces and then covered with van lining carpet. My battens are built into the roof but you could easily glue them on. One advantage is you can fit insulation between the panels and roof to reduce condensation and keep cool in summer & warm in winter. I used silver foil bubble wrap type. My whole cabin is lined like this.

 

[Tranona]

Not difficult to make using ply as a base and covered in vinyl, or you can buy laminate finished ply sheets from Robbins Timber and cut to size. glue chocks to the GRP to attach your battens.

 

[Hydrozoan]

If you’re thinking of buying ready-made panels to cut to shape, there is a great range from which to choose – either (A) faced substrates like ply, or (B) solid plastics of various kinds. For both classes of materials the more aesthetically pleasing finishes are (not unexpectedly) the more expensive.

If you clad panels yourself as I did, you can I believe obtain an aesthetically pleasing finish at lower cost – and potentially choose from a much wider range of fabrics and colours, if you are so inclined. But it’s more work of course. I’m not personally fully convinced of the advantages of insulation (I had an inner lining below the deckhead anyway), but adding it to a panel should certainly not be difficult.

PS I used 3m Dual Lock pads to affix the panels, along with the covering battens, which greatly reduced the need for capped screws - just a few of the latter at points of high curvature.

 

[dgadee]

The boat (a Seawolf) currently has vinyl covered ply which is looking its age, but I was lying in a bunk under Nauticat panels over the summer thinking what a nice effect they had. They have an embossed surface rather than being smooth.

Replacing the current headlining with the same is not difficult, but I can't see anywhere which does the solid panels which I liked.

 

[rob2]

I assume the panels are plastic? If so a Google search should find suppliers of plastic sheets and should offer a variety of colours and possibly textures as well.

Rob.

 

[Hydrozoan]

I assume the panels are plastic? If so a Google search should find suppliers of plastic sheets and should offer a variety of colours and possibly textures as well.

Rob.

The trouble with that approach in my experience is getting lots of shiny plastics for wet rooms etc. I do recall somebody on this forum referring to a high-grade solid material (textured I suspect) which they were using in a major refit, but it would be quite a job to find using the search facility, given the number of headlining threads.

 

[dgadee]

I assume the panels are plastic? If so a Google search should find suppliers of plastic sheets and should offer a variety of colours and possibly textures as well.

Rob.

Yes, but what sort of plastic? Is it PVC?

 

[Stork_III]

The Nauticat ones are probably the same as in HRs. Vinyl covered ply planks, with tongue and half groove, screwed through tongue with a mahogany strip pressed into the groove.

 

[dgadee]

The Nauticat ones are probably the same as in HRs. Vinyl covered ply planks, with tongue and half groove, screwed through tongue with a mahogany strip pressed into the groove.

Not the ones I was lying under looking up at. They were of a hard plastic material.