replacing rv furntiture

Thanks everyone for the information.

Ultraleather material comes in different thicknesses so it is difficult to say about the service life without actually comparing apples to apples. I believe that you can get Ultaleather material in .5mm up to 1.4mm thickness. If you get a quote make sure of the material thickness and where that material is being used. For cost savings they may use the thick material for the wear surfaces and the thinner material on the sides and backs.

We found out pretty quickly that anything with "RV" in front of it I'll automatically be about twice the cost! It's all marketing! Except the toilet needing to not have a tank above and water loose in the bowl, we have not found anything that has to be "RV"! We have two love seat sized pieces in living room. One is double recliner, and we have loose table and chair dinette. Bought our stuff at a consignment store. JMHO

After 10 years of fulltiming we had our Flexsteel "ultra-leather" captain's chairs reupholstered due to flaking and cracking of the material. We replaced the Tiffin supplied covering with a hopefully better quality man-made material (Ultra-leather) The cost was about 1/2 of new quality seats we found @ $1400 or 1/3 the price of OEM seats from Tiffin. The material was $70 a yard at Mastercraft Furniture, a custom and RV furniture manufacturer's retail store, in Shipshewana IN and $700 in labor by another party since Mastercraft does no re-upholstery. We ended up with 2 yards of material leftover which we opted to keep in case the seats needed repair in the future.

The ultra leather has held up very well for us over the years and we can be a little tough on it some days.

You may want to check around with car restoration businesses in the area. They can cut and stitch together new covers for the furniture and it can save quite a bit of money sometimes as they are not replacing any of the steel structure just the padding and surface material.

As noted above, go to a regular furniture store, not an RV furniture store.

We replaced our "J" couch with 2 Lazy Boy recliners and my recliner with another leather one at regular furniture stores. We saved a bunch over so called RV furniture and had a better choice.