{"id":10487,"date":"2010-02-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/best-color-for-engine-room-insulation\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T07:00:00","slug":"best-color-for-engine-room-insulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/best-color-for-engine-room-insulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Color For Engine Room Insulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Engine-ro-om-art-100\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/engine-ro-om-art-1001.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another batch of photos for art planning, this time of the larger engine room areas, which bring to mind the question about the best color for engine room insulation. Above we are looking at the bulkhead over the workbench. The taped outline is 670 wide x 465 high.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The norm is to use white or light gray for insulation. This expands the visual space and looks good when new. But two or three years after launching the light colors usually loose their appeal, and end up with a grimy look. This is particularly true in difficult to clean areas.<\/p>\n<p>We switched to black with <em>Beowulf<\/em> in 1995 and have been much happier with the long term results. After a few years of cruising the black tends not to show its age. And if you cover the open surfaces with art, the impact can be stunning as well as expanding the visual space.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Engine-ro-om-art-103\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/engine-ro-om-art-1031.jpg\" width=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, here is the forward bulkhead forward of the engine and adjacent to the door. This is 1070 wide and 1440 high.<\/p>\n<p>The system we have used for engine room art is to laminate photos, leaving 6mm (1\/4&#8243;) of clear laminate around the edges. 3M double side foam tape is used for installation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Engine-ro-om-art-104\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/engine-ro-om-art-104.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A third area is the starboard cabin bulkhead (690 x 355).<\/p>\n<p>There are many other areas where smaller photos will work as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another batch of photos for art planning, this time of the larger engine room areas, which bring to mind the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/best-color-for-engine-room-insulation\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}