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Hello,

I know this is an older thread now but has anybody gone down the bleach route as we have just been to check on our pennine pathfinder to find the same problem on the bedboards?

If this did not work out very well, does anybody know of a repair center in the east midlands that would be able to replace the bedboards for us as we have nowhere to do this ourselves any more and the pathfinder is in storage where there isn't the facility to have it opened out for long enough to do it ourselves.

Thanks in advance,  Tony & polly

When we opened up our FC last year we had black mouldy bed boards and some on the bed pods.  I stripped the beds and put the pods in the washing machine (after spraying them with Dettol Mould & Mildew spray.  I then scrubbed the bed boards with a Milton solution then left the FC up to dry.  This weekend we put the FC up for the first time since we packed away last September (always a scary moment!) and am pleased to say the mould has not returned and the FC made it through the winter!

I too have read that the boards need to breathe so they shouldn't be varnished?

sorry dave but by their very nature boats are in constant contact with water and so have to be sealed, otherwise the ply would swell and over time the glue between the sheets of wood that make up the ply would dissolve, campers are a totally different beast.