Tent Trailer Canvas Cost

[Raekwon]

I'm looking for people with experience selling or buying new canvas for a tent trailer. I'm wondering what the cost was to replace the entire canvas. I'm not sure if the year matters much but this would be for a 1974 Trailer a sundance.

Thanks

[4X4]

I actually just looked into this. There's a guy called Tony's Mobile RV Repair that told me he'd put a new canvas on a trailer for around $800 installed.

[Sliver]

Holy crap $800 is mind-bogglingly low for that. The material, fasteners, zippers, labour, etc. on making a new tent trailer canvas is insane. Think of what goes into one window, for example. You have a zipper all the way around for the canvas. Then another one all the way around for the plastic. Then you have the screen. There are usually eight or 10 windows on one tent trailer canvas. There's about 40 hours of labour (if you're fast and good) to complete the whole job.

Then after it's made you have to take the old canvas off and put the new one on. It's not super hard, but on older trailers you're always going to run into issues with rotten wood or obsolete awning rail/tracks/fasteners that you'll need to MacGuyver new parts for to fit onto the old components on the trailer. That introduces the potential for a whole host of problems that can be time consuming to resolve.

Plus this guy is going to come to your house to do all this? Call it at least an hour of travel time, which you'd think the guy would be billing at $50 minimum, which makes the price about $750, really.

I'm not doubting this guy exists or his prices because I trust 4x4, but I can't for the life of me figure out how anybody would be making money in this scenario. The only thing I can think of is there must be some canvases for certain models available that have been mass produced with Mexican labour or something. Regardless, trust me that $800 is really fataing cheap for a new canvas installed.

[4X4]

Yah. That's what he told me. I sold the trailer anyway, but that's what he told me. I don't know if he fabricates it himself, or if he orders them from some giant warehouse in India, but that was his over the phone ballpark estimate for a canvas replacement. And yes, he does it in your driveway apparently.