How To Replace Perspex Boat Windows
The question about the difference in strength between polycarbonate and acrylic needs to be kept in perspective.
How to replace perspex boat windows. We are able to cut to your specific shapes from drawings templates or simply pop your existing boat windows into us for us to profile and copy. Unless you need virtually unbreakable glazing acrylic often known as perspex is strong enough for boat windows and hatches. The windows are 8mm or 5 16ths acrylic perspex supplied by coastal plastics of tweed heads nsw. How you use your boat and what your needs are will dictate which material is best for you.
Leaking windows drips and dampness are not fun on a boat. Yacht refit restoration week 46 ep 55 the day has finally come. Some marine window materials come in gauges as thick as 40 gauge and as thin as 12 gauge. That thickness has been quite adequate and we have been hit with seas against the windows hard enough to set the boat over a meter in an instant.
Taking care of your boat windows also known as marine windows is a great way to avoid having to do the boat windows replacement procedure due to disrepair. Thickness of your windows affects how it will look as well as its clarity and flexibility. Perspex acrylic is the preferred choice for replacement boat windows usually in tinted perspex but often in clear too. Perspex replacement boat windows replacement boat windows wash boards hatches and screens.
Having ports or windows in your boat serves a variety of purposes they add appeal light and can increase the value of your boat. Boat windows when to fit a replacement window. We have been supplying cut to template boat windows for a number of years to the hampshire dorset isle of wight and devon area. Replacement perspex boat windows will last for many years.
If its diy replacement perspex boat windows wash boards hatches or screens that you need you have come to the right place. You guys know what this mean. Children complain other halves become potentially mutinous and life becomes generally unpleasant every time it rains. So there is the almost finished product.
Indeed major boat manufacturers use acrylic in their deck hatches and hulls.