Replacing saloon seat pads - HOW MUCH DID YOU SAY???????

[pcatterall]

I used 'any foam' for our latest camper. I think it was around £60 per bed. I used 3" medium topped with 2" soft then glued together and wrapped in Stockingette scrim. We use the medium side up when in seating mode and flip over to sleep on the soft side.

 

[oldgit]

Find a caravan upholstery outfit,preferably one in a less affluent part of the Uk with high number of local caravan sites.
I used a company on the Isle of Sheppey.Sensible prices compared to some of the eye watering quotes by some south coast boat cushion outfits.

 

[KenMcCulloch]

We are having our upholstery renewed at the moment. Advice from the person doing the work is that there are many different types and qualities of foam which is why the prices seem so various. Cheap foam will collapse after a relatively short time. It is costing us a little over £2k to have the whole boat reupholstered, 2 forepeak berths, ditto quarterberths, saloon and navigator's seat. The fabric is about 25% of the cost, same again for the foam, more or less, and the rest is labour.

 

[pcatterall]

I think we may get into the "you get what you pay" for argument. Cost does not always equal quality.

 

[halb]

For foam try Putnam's near Plymouth for foam only and for getting the upholstery done Pluss on the Marsh Barton Industrial Estate will supply and cover I got them to make me 2 cockpit cushions £35 each inc their supplying the foam. This company is a not for profit company, they train people for work!

 

[Eyore]

I recovered our new saloon berths and I can vouch for the fact that there is a remarkable amount of labour involved.