vinyl restore option

[papertrail]

My boat has some mold that will just will not come out. I have tried everything. My Marine Max dealer suggested i use a local company to "dye" the vinyl. Its a process of painting on a covering that will not crack and makes it any color you want. Supposedly cost is $800-$1200 for my entire interior. (model 290 AJ)


Anyone ever do this? Comments?

Brian

 

[fwebster]

The black stains is due to the vinyl failing. The short explanation is that it is a vinyl coated fabric and the stain is between t he vinyl coating and the backing. You are not ever going to remove it, and if its started in one place, then your other vinyl seats are soon to follow.

You might get a vinyl pro to dye the seats, but why spend the money when you will soon have to problem all over the exposed vinyl? Just get the seats recovered.........its not as expensive as you might think and then you are good to go for another 10+ years if you cover the seats.

 

[papertrail]

I was told that the vinyl restore process might last 2-3 years before the mold comes through. Considering i will probably sell the boat during this time, it might be a good solution.
re-upholster would be about $3,000. That sound about right?

 

[Old Vet]

yup...I'd have to agree with the gentleman above. we reupholster boats and I'd agree that the best thing is probably to just get them redone. I'm not sure I'd want to put out a $1000 on an attempt at some sort of fix that I'd not be 100% sure of. I wonder what the life expectancy might be for the dyed/painted finished product?

"re-upholster would be about $3,000. That sound about right? "

Depends on who's doing it to some extent. If it was us.....probably substantially lower....but then we don't have the overhead others do...we're a small "ma & pa" operation working out of our home.

We're in the process of completely redoing a 31' Silverton right now. The owner got a quote of $10K elsewhere....we came in at less than half that.

Pity we're so far away from you.

Good luck.

 

[fwebster]

$3K is high for this area; I don't know about JAX. We had all the cockpit vinyl on our 450DA replaced last year for $2900 and I"ve got a lot more vinyl that you do. But, I do projects in the off season when folks are hunting ways to pay the light bill, so that might have something to do with it.