upholstery seams

Boyd · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2014 3:08 pm

On my "new" '99 H220, some of the seams in the upholstery are starting to come undone. The thread seems to be deteriorating. I've resown a couple of inch long spots, but as things age they wear out. Is there any glue-like product that can be applied to the seams to help keep them together?

I was wondering if low viscosity glue like super glue would seep down into the seams and help hold them?

ric · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2014 3:46 pm

You've got to restitch.

if you use gore tenara, it will never come undone again.

rpengr · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2014 3:49 pm

Unfortunately, gluing the seams would only attach the weak surface of the vinyl, where stitching attaches around the stronger reinforced backing of the vinyl. I don't think gluing would be any of benefit.

fi.na.tine · **Posted:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 6:28 pm

If it were an issue where the seam was coming apart due to the thread being pulled out, you could secure it with a few small dots of adhesive, but what it sounds like is that the thread is wearing (which it does, a lot of multi-directional motion will wear on thread) then you have no choice but to re-stitch. But - at least you do not have to re-upholster due to the thread being stronger than the vinyl.

Boyd · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:16 pm

Thanks. We restitched three short seams with standard upholstery thread. We had to do that on the H200, and it lasted a long time - until we decided to reupholster. Hopefully we won't have to do that for a few years on this boat. :-)

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