Hello all,
I was advised in my introduction thread to break my issues out into individual threads, so here's #1 such thread.
My current project is to dry out my vberth so I can sleep in it while my rear cabin is in disrepair. The condensation from the vberth hatch is rather substantial, and it's enough that I don't want to try sleeping under it.
Taking some prior given advice, I've got a fan in there pointed at it, and it does seem to reduce, but not eliminate the problem. The next big piece of advice I got was to build a frame over the hatch with clear plexy/acrylic on top of it. Basically making a window frame over the hatch to make a second heat trap and hopefully get the condensation to occur in the frame, rather than on the bottom of the hatch.
I wanted to start it off with some simple bubble wrap, but I found that tape won't adhere to my fiberglass deck. Like, not even a little bit. The paint is 33 years old and powdery now. Sitting on it in black clothing means i've got white spots like I rolled around on a donut.
So that's making me reconsider the frame idea, because I don't have a way to get the frame to stay in place.
Any thoughts on what to do here? Do I need to buff around it for an hour or two with compoind? Can I 'freshen' the paint (it's kinda cold now for painting)?
I was advised in my introduction thread to break my issues out into individual threads, so here's #1 such thread.
My current project is to dry out my vberth so I can sleep in it while my rear cabin is in disrepair. The condensation from the vberth hatch is rather substantial, and it's enough that I don't want to try sleeping under it.
Taking some prior given advice, I've got a fan in there pointed at it, and it does seem to reduce, but not eliminate the problem. The next big piece of advice I got was to build a frame over the hatch with clear plexy/acrylic on top of it. Basically making a window frame over the hatch to make a second heat trap and hopefully get the condensation to occur in the frame, rather than on the bottom of the hatch.
I wanted to start it off with some simple bubble wrap, but I found that tape won't adhere to my fiberglass deck. Like, not even a little bit. The paint is 33 years old and powdery now. Sitting on it in black clothing means i've got white spots like I rolled around on a donut.
So that's making me reconsider the frame idea, because I don't have a way to get the frame to stay in place.
Any thoughts on what to do here? Do I need to buff around it for an hour or two with compoind? Can I 'freshen' the paint (it's kinda cold now for painting)?