All depends upoin the environment. We had some brand new
salon cushions that were fine when we left B'more, but by the
time we got to the Delaware River they had mildewed. Rain
all the way. Another risk is shrinkage (not the George Kastanza
type . Our salon cushions have been on for years. Decided last
winter to remove them and wash them. The material was supposed
to be preshrunk, WRONG! Now all our cushions are somewhat
small. Oh Well.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Rosalie B." wrote in message
...
Well if what we did doesn't work, it will probably last longer than we
do anyway. And if not, we'll just make new cushions.

"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote:

For cockpit cushions we usually make them totally out of
Textilene and use AquaBatten as the foam. That way when
they get wet, the water just drains right out of them.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Rosalie B." wrote in message
. ..
"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote:

We usually make the bottoms of the cushions out of a mesh like
Textilene. That was any trapped water can drain out rather than
puddle and eventually rot the cushion.

Doug
s/v Callista

Well the original cushions were 20 years old and have not rotted. I'm
talking about mattresses in the cabins and the cushions on the settee
in the saloon not the cockpit cushions. We replaced the insides when
we reupholstered because they were getting a bit 'limp' and the PO's
guest burnt a hole in the main saloon one.


"Rosalie B." wrote in message
m...
"Skip Gundlach" skipgundlach sez use my name at earthlink dot
fishcatcher (net) - with apologies for the spamtrap wrote:

"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in message
...
Have you checked the Sunbrella website?

I went first to Sunbrella.com - but was not very successful in finding
*interior* fabrics. That's been the challenge - I've seen, and can
easily
find (and may also, once pointed, be able easily to find interior
stuff)
exterior stuff.

Why use Sunbrella? The good thing about Sunbrella is the UV
resistance and you don't need that inside. We've used regular double
woven upholstery fabric with vinyl or some plastic fabric on the
bottoms of the cushions in the salon. That is, the tops and welting
on the cushions is the upholstery fabric and the bottom side is
waterproof. That's the way the cushions were originally and we've
kept it that way.


However, anything looking like furniture or interior always seemed to
be
related to patio stuff. That they hired someone (part of the google
search
so helpfully suggested by another poster about 1000 hits after my
going
directly to Sunbrella.com proved unfruitful) just to do interior
suggests
they must have a significant range of patterns - the over-a-year-old
press
release referred to more than 150 - but I haven't yet tripped on them.

Anyway, what prompted the original post was that one of the folks who
has
been fairly active on these fora in past years has a business which
does
this sort of thing; it was his mention of such fabrics, now, very long
ago,
which prompted my search. My failure is what prompted my ping. Are
you
he?

L8R

Skip and Lydia

grandma Rosalie


grandma Rosalie


grandma Rosalie