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For yards and contractors
Paint won’t cure in the wind, sanding dust won’t stay on your boat, and the yard won’t thank you for overspray on the neighbours. A shrink wrap enclosure gives the job a sealed, sheltered space — a temporary spray booth built where the boat already is.
Refit containment is a temporary enclosure built around a boat — or part of it — so sanding, filling, spraying or blasting can happen inside a sealed space. On a hard standing it works as a temporary spray booth: dust and overspray stay in, wind and weather stay out, and the yard around it stays clean.
How people find us
An enclosure around the hull on the hard, with headroom for staging, a door for materials, and fire-retardant film for spraying.
A sealed skin around the job keeps dust and grit where it’s made — the quickest way to keep the yard’s other customers happy.
Containment down to the ground takes the wind out of it, so the work runs to programme instead of to the forecast.
The process
Height, staging, door positions, extraction and lighting are agreed with whoever is doing the work.
A freestanding frame, or the yard’s scaffold, defines the working space around the hull.
Fire-retardant film is welded into one skin and sealed down to the ground so nothing escapes at the base.
When the job is done the enclosure comes down in one session and the film is taken away.
Options
For full resprays, osmosis work and antifouling — the whole boat inside, sealed to ground.
Around a transom, a deck repair or a coachroof, so a spot repair doesn’t dust the whole boat.
Heavier specification for grit and media blasting, with the base sealed and access controlled.
Covers over areas already finished while work continues nearby.
| Compare | Shrink wrap enclosure | Open air | Permanent shed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind and weather | Kept out | Stops the job | Kept out |
| Dust and overspray | Contained | Lands on the yard | Contained |
| Availability | Built where the boat is | Always | Booked weeks ahead, size limits |
| Light | Daylight through white film | Daylight | Artificial |
| Cost | Per job | None — until the complaints | Shed hire and moves |
Before we quote
For containment we survey with the yard and the contractor, so the enclosure suits the work inside it. We measure the vessel, work out the frame, the film area, the vents and the doors — and the number you get back is the number you pay. No provisional sums, no “subject to access”.
Illustrative figures for a full respray enclosure. Your own survey happens on site — or starts from photos, if you’d rather.
Start from your phone
Not every containment job needs a visit to get going. Send a couple of photos and tell us the boat, the yard, and whether it’s sanding, spraying or blasting, and an installer will tell you what’s involved — including when shrink wrap isn’t the right call.
Whole item in frame, plus one close-up of the access side.
WhatsApp or email, with the boat, the yard, and whether it’s sanding, spraying or blasting.
Approach, timescale and a price, in plain English.
Finished covers
Tight, smooth, framed clear of what it protects and welded into one skin. This is the standard every cover is fitted to.
Questions
Yes. A shrink wrap enclosure around the boat on the hard works as a temporary spray booth: sealed, sheltered and lit by daylight through the film.
For spraying and hot work we use fire-retardant film, and confirm the grade in writing with the quote.
Usually the yard or the refit contractor, sometimes the owner. Either is fine as long as the yard agrees to the enclosure on its hard standing.
Yes. Section enclosures around a transom, deck repair or coachroof keep a spot repair from dusting the whole boat.
Normally in one session. The film is cut away, bagged and taken with us, and the yard gets its space back straight away.
Send a photo, the length and where she is. You’ll get a straight answer on the approach, and a fixed price after the survey.
Quick quote
Tell us what
needs covering.
