How to Waterproof Anything With Fiberglass

as Mike from fiberglass I this video is going to be about how to basically about three different things how to waterproof anything basically but but how to waterproof plywood how to make a waterproof box anywhere from the size of a drip tray all the way up to a 40 foot by 20 foot by 1 foot aquaculture pond the second and most important thing that if this is going to be about is to how to make a swimming pool liner we work with a lot of swimming pool companies and swimming pool repair companies that can take an old fiberglass pool and old concrete pool or any sort of pool and no matter what's wrong with it you can realign it with fiberglass and save it and have a line of this is going to last 15 to 25 years this video is going to you really should watch our other video first before you watch this one in the last video we explained a lot about the resins we explain to you why you should use a certain certain resins when you should use wax when you should not use wax I'll try to remember to go over that as much as possible in this video but in this video we really want to concentrate on teaching you a skill that is really going to be worthwhile if you know how to waterproof a box like this you can make a fish box for your boat you can make anything anything you can possibly imagine in any shape you can possibly imagine with the steps that we're going to show you you can make a waterproof box that's going to last a very long time or you could take any box or any anything and make it waterproof for a very video that you were just watching was we were reinforcing the corners on this box most of the time when you're doing water proofing you're not going to have to reinforce the corners the way we did because you're going to wrap the fiberglass in this action and it's going to cover the corners but there's going to be some time that actually and when you're doing much larger boxes you are going to want to reinforce the corners from the inside and if the box is not strong enough to hold the amount of water that you're going to put in it then you're also going to do want to want to reinforce the corners all of the corners from the outside as well but what you just saw in that video was us and you saw how easy it was we just cut the chopped strand mat into six inch long pieces and we we put it into the corners doing it that way and that was 2 ounce chopped strand mat if you do it that way you can just do one layer of 2 ounce chopped strand mat then 2 layers of the gel coat and this will be a waterproof box for a box about this size when you get bigger and especially when you're doing a swimming pool you're going to want to do two layers of 1.5 ounces op strand mat sealed with two layers of gel coat we've been working with pool people for years this works I think we're going to talk about is how to repair a large tank if you have a tank on your farm or at your business that holds a large amount of liquid and you're getting pinholes in it it could be five thousand ten thousand twenty thousand gallons and it's getting old and it's getting pinholes in it no matter what it's made of plastic metal fiberglass we're going to also talk about how to repair that we can't necessarily show you on this material but I we can teach you and tell you how to fix any kind of tank a metal tank a plastic tank of fiberglass tank if you can get in the tank and fix it from the inside that's way way better if you can only fix it from the outside we're going to explain how to do that as well so let's get started now we've cut the pieces of fiberglass long enough to go 5 inches onto the floor and a few inches over the side what you do is you lay the fiberglass down into the box get it right up to the edge and crease it right along the bottom crease it there then bring it up and over the sides get all the get all the slack out of it and bring it up and over the sides and remember we are these these corners are already fiberglass so we don't have to worry about them the other way to do this is to cut the fiberglass to the height of the wall and do the inside but then you don't have the overlap to the outside so there's two ways to do it we're doing it the second way if you're doing a swimming pool or a very large box you're going to be doing two layers of 1.5 on stop strand mat as I said we're going to round it around we're cinching this down the we did the primer coat when you were watching before we did the primer coat of polyester resin with hardener only no wax we just used the polyester resin so it's a little tacky and that makes it difficult a little bit difficult to get the cloth all the way into the edges but what you do is you see that the cloth will work with you you kind of bend it kind of push it in there and it really is working with us this is the final piece we're not going to put in the floor piece yet because then there would be too many overlaps so we're going to do the walls and then we're going to do the floor piece last the longer you let the you know if you if you let that primer coat dry the primer coat of polyester resin with no wax in it if you let it dry I only let it dry for like two hours if you let it dry more it's not really that tacky now but the more you let it dry there's less tacky OB the longest I would let it go would be maybe 48 hours if it goes longer than that it's not the end of the world okay not what we're going to do next is and what you're going to see me doing next is I'm going to mix up polyester resin and hardener and we're just going to take really cheap disposable rollers from Home Depot and we're going to roll the resin all the way around on the insides first and then we're going to get these outside flaps and when that's done we're going to do the floor okay what I've done is mixed polyester resin and hardener and we're rolling it with rolling it on top of the prime coat now as this resin soaks through the mat and gets to the prime coat the resin that's going through the mat is joining up with a resin that's in the wood now the more resin that you get to soak into the wood the longer this box this repair this pool whatever it is that you're doing is going to last because as it has this resin that I'm putting on now goes through the wood it's joining up with the resin that it is with it's going through the mat joining up with the resin that's already in the wood and they're becoming one and wild horses couldn't separate them so you see this side over here that we finished already it looks you Cavins you can barely see the chopped strand mat anymore that's because the whole thing become one it's one solid waterproof wall and as we go wall by wall by wall making each one waterproof inside that's going to be the case we when we started what you saw before was I primed all of the wood in here and the way I primed all the wood was by mixing up polyester resin and hardener and we primed the wood and the more resin that you can get the soak into the wood the better the result you're going to have because look what we're doing now what we're doing now is we're rolling resin on to the mat and the resin that soaks through the mat joint is going to go through the mat and it's going to join up with the resin that is in the wood and when the resin that goes through the mat and becomes part of the mat joins up with the resin that's in the wood and that's part of the wood there's nothing that can ever separate them and the more resin that you can get to soak through the wood on that primer coat the better the result that you're going to have in the long run so try to get as much resin to soak through on that primer coat as humanly possible now it's setting up a little fast today so we're going to make we're going to do smaller batches when it sets up fast on you you could do smaller batches you can also look on the container and there's a there's a maximum amount of hardener that you can use and a minimum amount of hardener that you can use when it's very hot out you can go down to that minimum amount you can't go below the minimum amount but you can go down to the minimum amount and do it that way and that will get you a little bit more life out of your batch okay when you're doing the floor an easy little cheat is to pour the resin down and spread it around much much easier takes a little bit more resin but especially where you have overlaps it makes things a lot easier because where you have overlaps you're going to need more resin so it's a nice little okay once again I'm going to get the rollers out of the acetone and we're going to do the corners first see the corners we put a lot down we put a lot of resin down on the bottom we're doing the corners first and then we get the nice big flat roller shake the asks if this was soaking in acetone behind us in a bucket with a lid on it of course wherever you have any waste posit see how there's white spots go away once you go back and forth back and forth and once this gets gummed up once this our roller gets gummed up you just go and switch it with one of the ones you have in the acetone and you'll see just in a minute as well all the white spots are going to be going this is the polyester gel coat that we sell now when we when you use it this is about how we recommend that you use it you do one thin coat and one medium coat the thin coat you can thin it down with acetone even up to 20% your 15% is probably the best 10 to 15% and the first coat you only put hardener and you roll it on very thin and the second coat you can either use it you can use it full strength or thin down just 5% but you add wax first then if you want to a little bit of acetone then the hardener that's your font that's your second coat that's your final coat it will be as hard as a rock if you use this kind of gel coat which is commercial grade it's ten pounds instead of nine pounds very very hard and if you use this to waterproof a box of pool anything it will be as hard as a rock now this is our gel coat we'll get ready to mix it we always recommend doing two layers of gel coat one thin layer and then one medium layer you look on the back and depending on the temperature it tells you how much hardener to use where we are today it's close to being up in the 90s so we're going to use the smaller amount of gel coat of hardener when you get the gel coat from us you get hardener and wax you use the hardener every time on the first coat and the second coat you only use the wax and the second coat very important you follow the directions on here as to how much to mix in and it's very very simple as long as you follow the directions you'll have a very very good result now one thing about gel coat gel coat this has a lot of solids in it so it settles as it's shipped so it's good to give it a little shake before you use it turn it upside down and give it like a three minute shake okay this is the box we finished yesterday remember this box represents any possible thing that you can waterproof that you want to waterproof or fiberglass it can you know that we're not going to go through the whole list again any anything that you can lay fiberglass on you can make waterproof this just happened to be wood remember if you do would you must do the primer coat the primer coat is polyester resin and mixed with hardener you get as much as that the soaking as possible remember that we reinforce the corners on here first because we were using 2 ounce chopped strand mat and we on the flat surfaces so we reinforced the corners first then we did the 2 ounce chopped strand mat we overlapped it over the sides it's the next day it's still tacky and a Juris coat of gel coat as we say we thin it down 10% with acetone I'm going to thin it down 10% with acetone so we can roll it on nice and thin we've got this is 64 ounces it's a half a gallon to 64 ounces so 10% would be six ounces we have that here we're going to pour that in and you get that mixed in first mix it slowly so it doesn't splash we're going to use 18 cc's or 1/2 a gallon of gel coat because it's hot out okay so we have our thin down gel coat mixed and we're going to roll on a nice thin layer all right this is the all-important final coat of gel coat we're going to add the wax first here we have the wax it has the black coat the black mark on top it says wax on it it looks different this is a half a gallon waxes mixed two ounces per gallon so this is a half a gallon so we're going to put in one ounce of wax which is right to the top of here and always shake the wax well before you put it in now you mix the wax in very well before you add the hardener because it's important to get a good mix on this wax okay the wax is mixed in now we're going to put in our hardener never ever use resin or gel coat without hardener we've repeated that a million times there's our hardener now we're going to go roll a good medium coat for our second coat not as thin as that first coat that we did but it doesn't have to be very very thick now the first coat has dried it's still tacky but this second coat because it has wax in it is going to dry to a non tacky finish very very hard okay here's a wrap-up of what we did we started out with a plain wooden box we took polyester resin and hardener mix that together and saturated the whole box with that we saturated the wood got as much the soaking as possible then on top of that we put chopped strand mat with first we reinforced the corners were four inch strips then we put chopped strand mat and we chopped we saturated the chopped strand mat with polyester resin and hardener no wax then we did two coats of gel coat the first coat of gel coat just with hardener and we thinned that down with acetone and then the second coat of gel coat we didn't thing down but we did put wax in it you put wax first then your hardener then roll it on for your very final coat if you're doing a box or a huge project or a swimming pool visit our website first watch our other two videos because some those things in those videos that you will help you with these projects and email us if you're doing a swimming pool or a box email us the square footage describe for us your project email the square footage and your city and zip code it's very important because shipping is part of the cost email us the square footage or your project just city and zip code to our ANR if you visit our website our email address is on there so visit the website fiberglass site comm you'll see the links to our other videos and if you there we keep them short so if you watch them you are going to become a fiberglass expert you

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Id: LhWud4a5Aj8

Length: 20min 16sec (1216 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 24 2014