Peak Cleaner for Vinyl?

**Billfletcher** · 02-20-2012, 01:39 PM

Thanks for the input guys. Actually, i was mistaken. Peak is a stainless cleaner. The product that someone i know used on their seat to remove some heavy staining was the magic eraser. i'll probably give that a shot on the few spots that need it, and then use a milder product for general, everyday cleaning. Come summer i will routinely have 4 to 6 kids on board during the weekends, so my cockpit area gets worked. So long as they dont clog the head with TP, I am good.

**CliffA** · 02-20-2012, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Billfletcher

The product that someone i know used on their seat to remove some heavy staining was the magic eraser. i'll probably give that a shot on the few spots that need it, and then use a milder product for general, everyday cleaning.

magic eraser is a very good cleaner, although it is mildy abrasive...i use it a lot and sometimes i am amazed at the stuff it removes...i would recomend you always treat your vinyl with a good vinyl protectant after you scrub it with a magic eraser...if you use it on gelcoat you may find that you will loose the shine and have to rewax that area...for any of the vinyl that gets replaced on my boat i am going to try and avoid using magic eraser unless abosolutely needed....i don't want to take the chance of removing the inherent protective layer of the new vinyl with the abrasiveness of the ME....

cliff

**Last Dollar** · 02-20-2012, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by CliffA

when i purchased my boat a couple years ago the vinyl had mildew spots/stains that would not come off...like many others i tried almost everything known to mankind to remove the spots/stains....i eventually gave up and decided to use the SEM marine vinyl spray coating to recoat the vinyl...i found a color that very closely matched the original color of the vinyl.....it worked very well and is still holding up nicely....i will mention that the rear seats on my boat had the worst stains so i really attacked those seats hard with various cleaners and chemicals including bleach....as a result those seats became very brittle and devleoped cracks and tears at the seam so i had to have them recovered this winter...just a word of caution about attacking the vinyl with a bunch of chemicals...you could damage the vinyl even further as well as weakening the thread used in the seams....cliff

I had a friend who used this stuff on a later model abused bow rider Sea Ray and it really worked well. You could not tell it was painted!! I would try this before using some harsh chemicals that may distroy the vinyl material.

**Gunn** · 02-21-2012, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Last Dollar

I had a friend who used this stuff on a later model abused bow rider Sea Ray and it really worked well. You could not tell it was painted!! I would try this before using some harsh chemicals that may distroy the vinyl material.

This sounds like good stuff, thanks for the info on it guys. I'll have to file this away in case I ever need it. My '95 175 has a few mildew stains I have been unable to get rid of for years (never tried Magic Eraser though).

They have all kinds of colors, some even Sea Ray specific!

http://www.repaintsupply.com/cat-sem-marine.cfm

Tom

**CliffA** · 02-22-2012, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by Gunn

This sounds like good stuff, thanks for the info on it guys. I'll have to file this away in case I ever need it. My '95 175 has a few mildew stains I have been unable to get rid of for years (never tried Magic Eraser though).

They have all kinds of colors, some even Sea Ray specific!

http://www.repaintsupply.com/cat-sem-marine.cfm

Tom

i found the Sea Ray color 'mystic white' was almost a perfect match of the color of my hull....

cliff

**heatonj** · 03-22-2012, 07:23 PM

when i had the seats done on my old boat the guy said to use whats called "Totally Awesome". You can get it at dollar stores for $1 in a spray bottle or a gallon jug you need to mix for $3. He said its an all natural cleaner so it wont dry out the vinyl like other cleaners. Ever since I have used it on everything from grease removal to touch up cleaning on the hull. My wife was about to throw away a load of laundry because our 4 year old left a crayon in her pocket and it went through the dryer ruining abunch of the cloths, she saw a web site that said to soak the stains with Totally Awesome and it worked like a charm.

**Sum Escape** · 03-23-2012, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by heatonj

when i had the seats done on my old boat the guy said to use whats called "Totally Awesome". You can get it at dollar stores for $1 in a spray bottle or a gallon jug you need to mix for $3. He said its an all natural cleaner so it wont dry out the vinyl like other cleaners. Ever since I have used it on everything from grease removal to touch up cleaning on the hull. My wife was about to throw away a load of laundry because our 4 year old left a crayon in her pocket and it went through the dryer ruining abunch of the cloths, she saw a web site that said to soak the stains with Totally Awesome and it worked like a charm.

+1 on the Awesome. Works great.