Hi, my poor Barth 22ft 1991 seems to have a padded vinyl ceiling in the bathroom area and at the front of the coach, but the area between, i.e. the main cabin, seems to be some sort of foam backed beige / tan 'velour' cloth that has parted company both with its backing and the roof, hanging down in a an ugly fashion... It was secured with flat head push-pins, which just worked loose and fell out. I spoke to another owner, of a slightly younger 22ft and he unit had a vinyl ceiling throughout. Does anyone know if:

a) The original ceiling was vinyl

b) Was it an extra cost upgrade?

c) Could the cloth ceiling be original, or was there an issue that involved the removal of the original and it's replacement with this?

The last is scary because it makes one wonder what's above?

I had thought to replace the current mess with panels of thin flexible plastic board from Lowes, or to take down the correct cloth etc. clean it up and maybe tile the ceiling as I have seen done on some coaches?

Ideas, help? Please?

Thanks!

I had a 4 page thread about re-doing our ceilings in our old Euro. Wasn't easy but it was well worth the effort.
https://www.barthmobile.com/eve...061/m/4933909957/p/1

Our ‘81 Euro 22’ original had the same luan, foam and vinyl ceiling that was in our ‘93 Regency. (And lots of other MH of that era). None of these were ever conceived of being around in thirty of forty years. Our solution was to remove everything from the coach and start over, including the Euro front cap and obsolete windshields.
We decided weight, humidity and water had to be avoided so we used honeycomb plastic panels (Carbon Core 3/8” panels) with 1/8” closed cell Landau Foam attached with 3M 78 foam adhesive and then vinyl (white) also attached with 3M (constructed with a 4x8 vacuum bag) and then attached with strips of adhesive backed Velcro on the ceiling ribs and the panels that were cut to fit. We installed LED down lights, trimmed around the A/C vent and then (still working on this part) built new cabinets including the rear bathroom. The original cabinets were nowhere near the fine work of the Amish in the newer large coaches so we didn’t try to save them.
More work and money than anyone but a Barth freak would spend on a baby coach but it will be unique and way less than what passes for a new comparable size two person travel coach. It is way quieter and is waterproof because nothing exists to hold or be affected by water even if a leak occurs and the ceiling can be removed if need be.