Head lining

Faffing around with the front head lining in the Ninety before recovering it later in the year.
Would there be any benefit giving it a coat of pva solution in the meantime?
Reason is I have 5 litre of the stuff hanging around and trying to find something to use it on.

Do you not have any kids that need a volcano school project?

doriz said:

Do you not have any kids that need a volcano school project?

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Son is 25, probably a bit old for volcano projects.

To late now, I've pvaed (is there such a word ?) it anyway.

Ah. I didn't see this. Was it (hopefully) the outdoor/waterproof variety?

I'm now a headlining proffeshereranl - just done all of an Alfa's bits. Ask away when you get to finishing it. (Oh and I did use wproof pva to stich down some hairiness on the fibreboard moulding).

boguing said:

Ah. I didn't see this. Was it (hopefully) the outdoor/waterproof variety?

I'm now a headlining proffeshereranl - just done all of an Alfa's bits. Ask away when you get to finishing it. (Oh and I did use wproof pva to stich down some hairiness on the fibreboard moulding).

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It will be ok, its going inside the Ninety not on the roof, as we know it never gets damp in a Land Rover!

I have just spent the best part of the day putting a Lasalle headlining in my 90 which didn’t have one when I bought it. A real pig of a job trying to line up front to rear (in two parts).

Now done, please but exhausted.

Alfa. The hardest bits were thebtwo on top of the pile.

boguing said:

Alfa. The hardest bits were thebtwo on top of the pile.

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That's a proper good job, what materials did you use?
I will be happy if I get a reasonable job done.

Anaconda said:

That's a proper good job, what materials did you use?
I will be happy if I get a reasonable job done.

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Now that's where I really earned points with the Daughter. She's a clothes designer and they have teams of fabric buyers, and she reckoned I'm good enough with Google images to get a job there.

As it happens, I googled 'headlining fabric' and https://www.eufabrics.com/ were at about the top. The exact match 2mm foam backed stuff was on their front page. Friendly chap running it too.

They do the spray adhesive too. If you go that way, don't go for the extra strong 'spray both surfaces'. It's not needed and it makes it far harder to stop it rippling. My main tip is that if the substrate is quite rough, practise shaping it over the awkward bits. If you 'push ' it you get ripples, so always be pulling it over shapes. (If it's not rough enough to give a feel for how it will stick, do an incredibly light dust with adhesive). Do it half a dozen times to get it into muscle memory. What happens is that fibre layer under the foam sticks down, and if you're pushing the fabric layer the foam in between stretches a bit and makes a ripple - which relaxes the foam until you push the fabric again - and get another wave.

If the foam makes a folded over edge too thick you can tear off the fibre and foam layer, best done with decent water pump pliers I found.