What is a good product for cleaning mold and mildew on vinyl boat seats? TIA
Bob

What is a good product for cleaning mold and mildew on vinyl boat seats? TIA
Bob

Bleach will kill the mold, but damage the threads in the seams.

I have cleaned much mold from vinyl with household bleach cut at least
50% with water. It will not bother synthetic thread, which is usually
dacron, any more than it bothers the vinyl. It will not bother cotton
thread if you rinse well (Hose it). However, I would try the oxyclean
stuff first. It will remove some molds (didn't do squat for my sails)
and seems to be more user friendly that bleach.

Ron

For what it's worth, the company that makes Tilley hats (100% cotton duck
fabric) warn against using bleach at any dilution, and those are pretty
tough hats.

It's one thing to say you can rinse the bleach out of a laundry load of
towels - they're soaked in rinse water once or twice. But, I doubt you can
reliably rinse the seams of vinyl seats & boat covers.

"Ron Thornton" wrote in message
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I have cleaned much mold from vinyl with household bleach cut at least
50% with water. It will not bother synthetic thread, which is usually
dacron, any more than it bothers the vinyl. It will not bother cotton
thread if you rinse well (Hose it). However, I would try the oxyclean
stuff first. It will remove some molds (didn't do squat for my sails)
and seems to be more user friendly that bleach.

Ron

I have been doing it for decades to canvas, vinyl, nylon, dacron tents,
sails, awnings, boat covers, Bimini tops, etc., etc., etc.. I always
rinse good with a strong hose spray and have never seen evidence of
thread degradation. If diluted household bleach attacked some thread,
then it would also attack some fabrics and a lot of our white clothes
would fall apart. It's just not that strong after almost any dilution
with water. I suspect the hat manufacturer is more concerned with the
color of the thread changing so it didn't match the fabric. My concern
with bleach is with metal which is why I now try the oxyclean stuff
first (it still needs to be rinsed off good).

Now if you go to the pool store and get some pool bleach and pour it all
over your vinyl seats and it gets down in the metal hardware, then
that's another story, but I trust we all know not to do that.

Ron

Lysol concentrate and/or Oxyclean do a good job of getting rid of mold
without damaging the threads or vinyl

"Robert White" wrote in message
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What is a good product for cleaning mold and mildew on vinyl boat seats?
TIA
Bob

I use SprayNine available at wallmart and Autoparts stores.
the stuff works like magic. Pretty toxic though.




On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:53:34 -0400, "Robert White"
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What is a good product for cleaning mold and mildew on vinyl boat seats? TIA
Bob




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Vinegar will kill mildew and sunshine will bleach it out naturally. But
a little bleach won't hurt your seats and will get rid of most of it.

BTW Vinegar will also remove rust stains.

Capt. Frank Hopkins

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Robert White wrote:

What is a good product for cleaning mold and mildew on vinyl boat seats? TIA
Bob