The question about the difference in strength between polycarbonate and acrylic needs to be kept in perspective.
How to replace perspex boat windows.
Indeed major boat manufacturers use acrylic in their deck hatches and hulls.
Having ports or windows in your boat serves a variety of purposes they add appeal light and can increase the value of your boat.
Leaking windows drips and dampness are not fun on a boat.
That thickness has been quite adequate and we have been hit with seas against the windows hard enough to set the boat over a meter in an instant.
How you use your boat and what your needs are will dictate which material is best for you.
Some marine window materials come in gauges as thick as 40 gauge and as thin as 12 gauge.
Boat windows when to fit a replacement window.
Children complain other halves become potentially mutinous and life becomes generally unpleasant every time it rains.
Remember that the gauge a k a.
Perspex acrylic is the preferred choice for replacement boat windows usually in tinted perspex but often in clear too.
The windows are 8mm or 5 16ths acrylic perspex supplied by coastal plastics of tweed heads nsw.
Thickness of your windows affects how it will look as well as its clarity and flexibility.
We are able to cut to your specific shapes from drawings templates or simply pop your existing boat windows into us for us to profile and copy.
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Taking care of your boat windows also known as marine windows is a great way to avoid having to do the boat windows replacement procedure due to disrepair.
Unless you need virtually unbreakable glazing acrylic often known as perspex is strong enough for boat windows and hatches.
Replacement perspex boat windows will last for many years.
Where there is no more cold fronts crappy weather.
Dampness pervades and token attempts to put off the inevitable eventually expire in their effectiveness.
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