Cost of replacing canvas walls to camper

What's your location?

If you want a price, the best place to start is with a canvas manufacturer/supplier etc.

Sorry but after having 3 campers my advise is buy a caravan and not a pop top as in a caravan no weather worries you.
Wazzaaaa

Hi Ed,
I also have a Coleman Camper - not the most up to date conveyance on the market, but great to go away occassionally with three kids. We do not use it a lot but it is easy to tow, sleeps 6 and has everything we need for a cheap camping holiday
A couple of years ago, I took it to Southern Cross Canvas in Bayswater Vic. thinking that I would need to have the canvas replaced. At the time I though that the felt-like feel of the canvas meant that it was perished. The guy at Southern Cross thought different. Instead they suggested just re-stitch and reseal seams, and replace one panel and it has been great. From memory it cost me just a couple of hundred dollars
My rationale has been that we will get little or nothing if we want to sell it, it does the job we need it to do every so often and as long as I have a spot to store it out of the way, I'll keep it.
After getting caught in a tropical downpoor in Queensland, I copied the locals and bought a large silver tarp that now goes over the whole van and, with the use of an extra 4 poles gives us a large side awning. It is so easy to put up that we now do it as a matter of course therefore it does not matter if the canvas on the van is not at its peak condition.
I'll be interested to hear how you go.

Cheers,

Peter

We have just replaced the canvas in a 1985 Jayco Dove plus the roof only of the annex as the annex walls were still in perfect condition. Set us back $3700 and it has been replaced with a heavier canvas so should last us for years to come. We thought about the cost and decided we would get our money back as the canvas had deteriated to the point that it could tear just folding up so that we couldn't sell the van anyway. The other decision was that we use if for 4 weeks every xmas at Maroochydore and if we didn't have it it would cost us more than that price for one year to hire a unit let alone all the following years.
Cheers
Jenkie

just as a guess I would say 2-3 grand minimum canvas andcanvas work is way more than you could imagine

Hi Big Ed,

We have a 1996 Kimberly camper and went thought the same issues. I was thinking about replacing all our canvas, but after chasing it up with a canvas outlet I ended up deciding on resealing the canvas and sees with only carrying out minor repair work. The repair work was placing doublers in (rather large) around the canvas which was torn while folding the camper (ripped when we were rushing and didn't take care). This cost the most as they had to take most of the canvas of the camper. All up we payed around $800 for the whole thing and that is Darwin prices.

Been in the rain a few times since and no problems. We should get at least another 10 or more years out of it. I would chase it up with a canvas repair/outlet and get there advice. Good luck

Dave