The ceiling of my boat's cabin is stretched white fabric with small
holes over foam (I imagine). I wish I could describe it better, but
even though I think it's a pretty common fixture in cabins, I've never
heard a name for it. In any case, years of cooking and general use has
yellowed it. I've tried spray-on bleach, but with no success (the
spray clouded up the cabin and burned my eyes...and the fabric was
still dirty).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike

"Mike" wrote in message
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The ceiling of my boat's cabin is stretched white fabric with small
holes over foam (I imagine). I wish I could describe it better, but
even though I think it's a pretty common fixture in cabins, I've never
heard a name for it. In any case, years of cooking and general use has
yellowed it. I've tried spray-on bleach, but with no success (the
spray clouded up the cabin and burned my eyes...and the fabric was
still dirty).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike


You can try using a carpet steam cleaning machine using a wand and nozzle
attachment. Other than that you can try cleaning it with an 'oxiclean' type
cleaner. We used the 'oxiclean' for a corner area of the headliner on our
last boat (stained from a water leak which I repaired) and it worked great.
It may be too tough of a task for a large headliner area though.

On 31 May 2006 15:11:06 -0700, "Mike" wrote:

The ceiling of my boat's cabin is stretched white fabric with small
holes over foam (I imagine). I wish I could describe it better, but
even though I think it's a pretty common fixture in cabins, I've never
heard a name for it. In any case, years of cooking and general use has
yellowed it. I've tried spray-on bleach, but with no success (the
spray clouded up the cabin and burned my eyes...and the fabric was
still dirty).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike

I'd probably try 409. If it's grease, that works about as good as anything.
--
'Til next time,

John H

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***** Have a Spectacular Day! *****
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In article . com,
says...
The ceiling of my boat's cabin is stretched white fabric with small
holes over foam (I imagine). I wish I could describe it better, but
even though I think it's a pretty common fixture in cabins, I've never
heard a name for it. In any case, years of cooking and general use has
yellowed it. I've tried spray-on bleach, but with no success (the
spray clouded up the cabin and burned my eyes...and the fabric was
still dirty).

I'm pretty sure it goes by the same name as what's in your car.

Headliner.

Cooking grease or smoke doesn't come out of anything very easily.
Probably will take some scrubbing and then it'll probably only improve
incrementally.

Headliner isn't hard to come by and it's not particularly hard to
replace if you're inclined and a little bit handy.

jps

JohnH wrote:
On 31 May 2006 15:11:06 -0700, "Mike" wrote:

The ceiling of my boat's cabin is stretched white fabric with small
holes over foam (I imagine). I wish I could describe it better, but
even though I think it's a pretty common fixture in cabins, I've never
heard a name for it. In any case, years of cooking and general use has
yellowed it. I've tried spray-on bleach, but with no success (the
spray clouded up the cabin and burned my eyes...and the fabric was
still dirty).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike

I'd probably try 409. If it's grease, that works about as good as anything.
--
'Til next time,

John H

******************************************
***** Have a Spectacular Day! *****
******************************************

409 on a fabric headliner?

No way!

See my earlier response.

jps wrote:
In article . com,
says...
The ceiling of my boat's cabin is stretched white fabric with small
holes over foam (I imagine). I wish I could describe it better, but
even though I think it's a pretty common fixture in cabins, I've never
heard a name for it. In any case, years of cooking and general use has
yellowed it. I've tried spray-on bleach, but with no success (the
spray clouded up the cabin and burned my eyes...and the fabric was
still dirty).

I'm pretty sure it goes by the same name as what's in your car.

Headliner.

Cooking grease or smoke doesn't come out of anything very easily.
Probably will take some scrubbing and then it'll probably only improve
incrementally.

Headliner isn't hard to come by and it's not particularly hard to
replace if you're inclined and a little bit handy.

jps

Removing and replacing the headliner with nice results is not a job for
even those who are "a bit handy". If it comes to that I would only
trust an experienced contractor.

Thanks for the quick replies, steam cleaning is a great idea. I have a
friend with a mini steam cleaner which would be perfect to use in the
cabin. 409 is pretty much what I'd tried originally, but some hard
scrubbing might help. And I'll only replace it if all else fails...

Thanks,
Mike

Thanks for the quick replies, steam cleaning is a great idea. I have a
friend with a mini steam cleaner which would be perfect to use in the
cabin. 409 is pretty much what I'd tried originally, and apparently
that was a bad idea? I'll take a look at oxiclean products, and some
hard scrubbing might help regardless. I won't be trying to replace
that headliner by myself anytime soon--while I love projects, I hate
blunders.

Thanks all,
Mike

In article .com,
says...

jps wrote:
In article . com,
says...
The ceiling of my boat's cabin is stretched white fabric with small
holes over foam (I imagine). I wish I could describe it better, but
even though I think it's a pretty common fixture in cabins, I've never
heard a name for it. In any case, years of cooking and general use has
yellowed it. I've tried spray-on bleach, but with no success (the
spray clouded up the cabin and burned my eyes...and the fabric was
still dirty).

I'm pretty sure it goes by the same name as what's in your car.

Headliner.

Cooking grease or smoke doesn't come out of anything very easily.
Probably will take some scrubbing and then it'll probably only improve
incrementally.

Headliner isn't hard to come by and it's not particularly hard to
replace if you're inclined and a little bit handy.

jps

Removing and replacing the headliner with nice results is not a job for
even those who are "a bit handy". If it comes to that I would only
trust an experienced contractor.

I'm sure a bonehead could screw it up pretty well but I've done it with
an extremely clean result. I'm not an upholsterer or canvas sewer.
Maybe it's just because I've got mad skills and don't see it. My work
matched very nicely with what was there that didn't require replacement.

jps

"Mike" wrote in message
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Thanks for the quick replies, steam cleaning is a great idea. I have a
friend with a mini steam cleaner which would be perfect to use in the
cabin. 409 is pretty much what I'd tried originally, but some hard
scrubbing might help. And I'll only replace it if all else fails...

Thanks,
Mike


We had our carpeting and headliner professionally steam cleaned prior to
selling our last boat....the results were quite impressive.

We have a "Green Machine" steam cleaner and tried it before we called a
professional. The results using that machine were poor, especially
considering the time and effort spent on our part. You may want to consider
just contracting it out to a professional from the beginning and enjoy your
saved time. ;-)

By all means though stay away from off the wall advice,such as from the
person recommending using 409 hard surface cleaner on a headliner fabric. I
doubt those folks have any previous experience with this task and therefore
should have stayed silent in this thread. ;-)