The Upholstery Forum

I have a set of RV seats that look more like bucket armchairs. I am thinking with the skirts and arm rests a estimate of 5.5 yards a chair would in the ballpark, anybody think I am off on this?

5.5 yards a seat seems a little to much to me but Id need to see a picture the to accurately estimate that.

By chance where these FlexSteel Captains chairs on the RV?

@BigRig @John
This is a RV Captain’s chair I did a panel replacement on. There is a lot more material than in a car seat.

@JimmieJoe ,

I cannot find the manufacture of these on the seats but I did find they took a load of material ran right out at 05 yards not even getting the cushion or skirting done. Mine have a lot of odd cuts which wastes material.

@JimmieJoe , the material on your seats look identical to the stuff I am replacing on mine.

@BigRig The OEM material is different from the material I used as a replacement. The OEM in polyurethane coated textile. I was not able to set up an account with the OEM, so I had to use a different polyurethane coated textile to maintain the same feel of the material. However, the OEM material does not last very long, and I do not know if the replacement material will either.

@JimmieJoe , That is rotten I have yards of that color on hand you show in the picture. Pretty much all material nowadays will be a bed sheet with a rubber coating on it.

@BigRig You can still use non polyurethane coated textile, if you do not need to match the existing. You could use UltraLeather, but it is not cheap, but again not sure how well it really holds up.

@JimmieJoe , Ultraleather has the life as about anything else on the market. Maybe more so in colder climates.