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Originally Posted by rbkane
I have a 1992 bounder and the ceiling material has broken loose and is being held up by plastic clips about every 3 or 4'. In between the clips the material sags a Little. Has anyone had any luck and putting up a new vinyl cover material as the original ? The original material seems to have degraded, the padding has separated from the exterior leaving the wood covered with the residue foam rubber making it impossible to glue new material as it will not stick to the residue.
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Hello, I havent yet replaced the old vinyl ceiling in mine as yet but getting ready to. I did check to see if a regular automotive headliner repair shop was willing to do and they were, for about 200$ labor cost plus materials which is very reasonable i think. I stuill to plan to do it myself, just because I enjoy that type of challange.
My plan is to pull off all the old vinyl, and the old foam backing. I will scrape off the old foam with a wide blabe plastic putt knife, i should come off very eaisly as it is so degraded. To cut down on the mess, i will cut the botton off of a 1 gallon milk jug, attach a shop vaccumn cleaner hose to the mouth of the jug and vaccumn the debrit as i scrape it off, using a dust mask of course. I have already tried a small section of the above works well to cut down on the mess. I used 80 grit sand paper by hand, and the resuidual foam came right off,agin using the vaccumn to control the mess and air borne debrit.
You can find light weight vinyl on just about any upholstery or cloth web site. I am seriously considering using regulat automotive headliner material, because it is a cloth base, much lighter,and not as prone to shrink and stretch with drastic temp changer rv can endure. I have replced a few car headliners and the cloth based is much easier to work with believe me,and the spray adheive used for them is rather forgiving should you get a wrinkle or bubble while placing it.
I found the esiest way to apply it, due to the size of the pieces you have to work with is to 1) once you have measured the length you need to go from side to side, mark the center of it on both edges, 2) put tic marks of your ceiling that are also on center, 3) apply your adhesive to a small area of the base wood ceiling material starting in the center, line up the tic marks on the cloth with the tic marks on the ceiling, 4) use a very wid plactic putty knife and the palm of your to press the cloth in place, the spry adhesive is very quick to grab and hold thematerial, but is forgiving enough to allow you to pull it lose and resposition it a few times if need, be sure to use the palm of your hand not your fingers as your fingers will leave tracks or groves in the surface. 5) work slowly,always wiping and smoothing in one direction only, DONOT stretch the fabric, simply lay it in place.
It may sound very difficult, but with at least one assistant it is not that hard to do. OH also make sure all hands are always clean,lol . Hope it goes well for you. The price of 200$ plus was for the bed room ceiling only