Cratch & Rear Cover Cleaner?

[Nb Smudger]

Hi all, hope everyone is well. Having a bit of a problem trying to get cratch & rear covers clean. Previous nb we had, had the shiny pvc which cleaned up a treat with Pledge polish. Smudger has the cloth like material covers and we have tried scrubbing (using a green scourer) with mild washing up liquid and rinsing off. But with ALL the rain last Winter, we cannot get rid of the horrible green damp stains. Do we need something a little stonger maybe? Someone suggested Cillit Bang but this has bleach in it. Not sure of using bleach on the cloth material?

Any ideas please would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone.

Smudger.

[Guest]

Renovo canvas cleaner.

 

Not cheap, hard work but effective.

[bottle]

Fabsil

 

http://www.fabsil.com/

[frangar]

A glaze stuff is good...worked well on my cratch which is the fabric like one.....the correct name of it totally escapes me at the moment!

 

http://www.marineaglaze.com/shop/canopy-kit.php

 

The postage is a bit steep but you could try their other products at the same time

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[Phil Ambrose]

At one time I was a marine valet working on very large floating Gin Palaces which often had huge areas of canopy. We used a stuff which is available called "Boatwash in a Bottle" made by Starbrite.

The method we used was mix fluid with water and use it in a garden hand sprayer. Hose down canopy with clean water,spray solution on and wait a few minutes. Scrub with long handle boat scrub brush till you get plenty of foam then hose off. The amount of filth and green slime that comes pouring off. Repeat if needed. The sort of boats we cleaned were upto a 1/4 million jobbies and the owners expected them to look like new.(Which they did) Some of them had them cleaned once a month which cost them serious money, more often if they had been out on the lumpy stuff, NC will tell you about salt coating everything.

Phil

[Grace and Favour]

At one time I was a marine valet working on very large floating Gin Palaces which often had huge areas of canopy. We used a stuff which is available called "Boatwash in a Bottle" made by Starbrite.

The method we used was mix fluid with water and use it in a garden hand sprayer. Hose down canopy with clean water,spray solution on and wait a few minutes. Scrub with long handle boat scrub brush till you get plenty of foam then hose off. The amount of filth and green slime that comes pouring off. Repeat if needed. The sort of boats we cleaned were upto a 1/4 million jobbies and the owners expected them to look like new.(Which they did) Some of them had them cleaned once a month which cost them serious money, more often if they had been out on the lumpy stuff, NC will tell you about salt coating everything.

Phil

Amazon is one's friend

[Phil Ambrose]

Oh yes the non_skid deck cleaner makes cleaning non-slip paint work on NB's a piece of cake, almost forgot that one.

Phil