Winter Projects 2023, part 1; Upholstery

Our 30 year old upholstery looked fine, but... well, it was 30 year old boat upholstery. You can't SEE smells in the video, and you should be thankful forthat! This video is an overview of the process we followed as we recovered our saloon upholstery with brand new Sunbrella marine canvas. It's not a tutorial, and there's two reasons for that. The first reason is that neither of us are an expert at sewing or upholstery. So if you haven't already figured this out, our disclaimer is that this video shows what WE did to reuphoslter Intention. If you did things differently for your boat, we'd love to hear about it. Chances are that YOU know what you are doing and we just made it up as we went along. The second reason is that there will be several more detailed videos that show each of the steps we cover in this video in a lot more detail. If there's a step that interests you, check them out. or if you're bored and you like hearing our voice, then check them ALL out!! This project was a lot of fun, honestly. And although it might sound like we were sponsored by Sunbrella, we were DEFINITELY not. We spent between 12 and 16 hours taking off the old fabric, sewing new covers, and stapling them on. We spent approximately $500 (Canadian) on the Sunbrella, Velcro, Phifertex (for the seat back cushion backing), zipper chain and pulls, and other notions and sundries. That amount doesn't include the costs of any new tools that we bought to make our lives easier. We didn't even bother getting quotes on how much it would cost to have a professional reupholster these cushions, but we'd be willing to bet that it would be much more than that. The final product is something that we are INCREDIBLY proud of, and we think we saved a lot of money in the process. By the way, if you are curious about the details of Sunbrella, check out https://global.sunbrella.com/en-us/textiles/marine/marine-canvas. And if you're curious about the sewing machine that you see me using in the video segments here, check out https://www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Ultrafeed-LSZ-Walking-Foot-Sewing-Machine-110V. Ours is the previous model (LSZ-1), but there's really not a lot of difference aside from the new model has several new features that we *could* add to ours. The removable seat backs were made using the helpful Sailrite fabric calculator, specifically the Box Cushion calculator. You can find that at https://www.fabric-calculator.com/boxcushions/index.html. We will go into more detail about the unique details we added to the seat backs in a separate video. Thanks for watching! if you liked the video, please give it a thumbs up! And comment if there's something you learned or something you think we could have done better. And if you're new here, please subscribe! That way, you can get notified of any of our new videos as soon as they are posted.