Winter budgeting, new headlining query.

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Seeing as we've secured a very reasonable marina deal for our winter there's extra money in the pot for improvements etc :)

I'm already making my list, fundamentally need to get the vinyl headlining recovered (galley/saloon) as after 12 years of cooking it looks grubby and discoloured.

Has anyone had theirs recovered and if so is it a very expensive operation? Or am I being a total muppet and is there a successful way to clean it? Have tried sugar soap; cif; various degreasers to no avail. Hard to get elbow grease behind it in situ due to angle, perhaps take it all down and scrub on a pontoon?

Thanks in advance!
 
Try autoglym tar remover. If that doesn't work, you're probably knackered.

I was quoted about £1500 for a 27' boat, main saloon only. I thought this was ridiculous, however it took me 5 days solid and over £300 in materials. Worth every penny and minute though as it has transformed the boat.
 
Thank you, will try that but think we're on a losing battle.. 42ft boat so the quote based on yours is horrendous, will investigate possibilities. Can imagine it transformed your boat, anticipating same :)
 
Gave up with the cleaning. 33 foot Moody, new plywood panels and material about 100 quid. Hard work though. Did it last winter. Loks great.
 
Persuading the Boss to let me re-do headlining with laminate (after all we are a catamaran so hardly got monohull character..) would be so much easier to clean and detract from the blinding fibreglass interior! Happy to put the elbow grease in, information will be obtained :). Thank you!
 
Depends on how your panels are made. If they are ply panels covered with vinyl material, not difficult to replace - just time consuming. You can get material from Hawke House together with instructions on how to DIY. if it is stuck direct to the GRP, prepare for learning lots of new words as you struggle to remove the old stuff, never mind attaching the new so that it does not look like a slept in bed.
 
Thankfully ply, I've checked! Looking forward to the project, for right or wrong considering doing galley bit in wood laminate finish thus making a division between galley and saloon - Boss isn't sure!
 
SamanthaTabs said:
Thankfully ply, I've checked! Looking forward to the project, for right or wrong considering doing galley bit in wood laminate finish thus making a division between galley and saloon - Boss isn't sure!
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Not a bad idea to have some form of contrast over galley, else you'll renew the galley deckhead panel and it won't quite match the rest of the accommodation's headlining, so you'll end up wanting to replace the whole lot.
 
Some friends have recently renewed their headlining, which was a particularly difficult and complex shape. The lady of the couple did the Hawke House course, £120 for a full day and lots of kit, which she found to be very worthwhile. We viewed the course handouts, excellent content and quality, with many useful hints for making a professional job. Even if the course itself is out of the question I suggest the DIY info must be worth buying.
 
Hawke house are very good and will give you lots of advice FOC too. The big cost is the foam backed vinyl...the higher end stuff really is expensive.

Biggest ball-ache when I did mine was the ply panels...the original headlining was just stapled up before it fell down, so I had to make panels to suit...and they only just fitted through the hatch. Pleased with the results though...but if I was trading up to a bigger boat, state of the headlining would be a major factor...I never want to do it again!

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First try cleaning the old stuff with 'Marine Clean'.

Not everywhere sells it but it is brilliant on vinyl and like materials. It cleaned up my headlining when most other things failed, even Jif and Cillit Bang.

Great for cleaning decks etc. too.
 
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