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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 23:24:32 EDT
In a message dated 7/28/2003 8:32:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
> How should I redo it to avoid/prevent this recurring, please?
>
> I assume the first step is to rip the old 'glass off, but how should
> this too be done to properly prep the wood underlayment.
>
>
I have very little experience with glass over wood.
However, I do know that wood has a lot of expansion and contraction as
temperature, and especially humidity, changes, while glass has very little. I
believe this is what causes delamination. Then water wicks in between the wood and
the fiberglas layers and rots the wood.
I had a neighbor in a marina once who had a wood boat and had covered his
deck with dynel/epoxy. Dynel is a synthetic fabric with much more flexibility
than Fiberglas. Epoxy also has much more flexibility than polyester. He said
that the dynel/epoxy coating was sucessful and that except for a couple of
minor spots he had no delamination.
You might try contacting a company in St Petersburg FL that sells a wide
range of resins, cloths and associated material. I don't have the name at my
fingertips but it was something like Fiberglass Coatings Inc. Perhaps some list
members could help.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Gloucester MA
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