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Renovo Cleaning Products
Breathe New Life into your Boat Cover
After a season and two winters without proper cleaning, our blue strayhood was looking decidedly green over large areas. Time for some serious cleaning enter Renovo.
The Renovo range of boat canvas care products includes the cleaner we are reporting on here, a canvas 'reviver' said to 're-colour and recondition and a waterproofer, which also provides UV protection and contains mildew inhibitors. Renovo's plastic window polish is also reported on this month.
The Boat Canvas cleaner is a water-based product, pale blue-green in colour and quite viscous, it is brushed on, undiluted, using a 2in paint brush and is left to dry before being removed. Following directions, work from the centre out towards the sides, covering evenly. The product covers reasonably well and we found that our sprayhood (on a 26-footer) required about 375ml.
Carriage is applicable to all orders, these items cannot be sent by air freight
Following instructions for heavily soiled canvas, we left the cleaner to dry for an hour before attempting to remove it. This can be done with a damp sponge or cloth, according to the instructions, but we ended up having to use a wet scrubbing brush. It did not require hard scrubbing, but the brush was far more effective than a sponge.
Lot's of water was used and the transformation was remarkable; from dark widely covered with green to bright blue with only small areas still shadowed with green. Theses areas will probably require a second dose, but the over all effect is very good. If used at the beginning and end of the season the cleaner should keep a sprayhood looking very smart for little effort and at a cost that's not too far over the top. Next we will have to try reproofing the canvas.
