Iron-on wood veneer -anyone tried it?

[New Kentish Campers]

While I've got the interior out of the van to do the welding work, etc, I can see that the plastic imitation woodgrain stuff they - Holdsworth - used on the kitchen & wardrobe units has faded and is a bit tired looking.

So, have any of you tried using some real wood iron-on wood veneer straight over the top of the existing surfaces?

Obviously, I will need to throughly de-grease the surfaces and abrade them lightly to take the adhesive backing, but will it last? Any ideas? I will of course need to use the same edging strip stuff to to finish the edges off, but if it would work then I'd have a very nice looking interior for around a hundred quid, which I think would be money well spent and of course way cheaper than a whole new interior.

Any ideas/thoughts?

Cheers,

Doug.

[Oldiebut goodie]

You will find that real wood veneer will fade even worse with the constant sunlight upon it. (Assuming that you have windows!)

[kevtherev]

An awful lot of work to achieve the same effect as sticky backed plastic.

so much more choice with fablon type materials
I removed my tired Autosleeper plastic covers and replaced with pound shop cork effect.. 3 rolls
sanded the frame and stained it dark oak

from this...



too this... in three hours

[New Kentish Campers]

Cheers Kev,

That looks just the ticket, and will save me a lot of time too. I've got somebody lined up to re-do the seat covers, and I'll do the lining carpet work, so it was then the units that would have made the inside look a little tired out. Ta!

[New Kentish Campers]

You will find that real wood veneer will fade even worse with the constant sunlight upon it. (Assuming that you have windows!)

I'd not considered that angle to be honest OBG, and now Kev's given me a better option then I'll try that out. I didn't really relish the idea of spending a lot of time and then find it would all have been a waste of time and money