Hey guys, got a few questions about fiberglass repairs. How do I repair the deck when it is separating from the marine plywood? Gelocoat is in decent shape but when you step on it it has very little support. Can you drill holes through the plywood and inject resin or an adhesive to recreate the bond? i am at a lose.
Fiberglass repair ?
- Thread starter regidog
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Strange that you would bring this up. I been sanding and grinding my deck down to reprime and apply a non-skid "Tuff Coat paint" and have two slightly weak area on my deck. I weigh 200 pounds and it flexs just enough to annoy me. The right way is to cut the area out and install new wood and glass the peice back in. But there is a stuff out there where you can inject a resin into the rotted wood and its suposed to make the wood rock solid. Its a bit pricey though at West Marine. I mght pick some up in the morning and see what it does.
macojoe
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Well that will work to a point and I think it is better suited for stringers and solid wood.
For plywood, I don't think your going to get what you looking for??
Plywood is layers that have rotted. The rot fixer is never going to reglue it all toghter.
Then you still have to find some kind of glue that will glue the deck back to the fixed rotted wood. There isn't much that will glue wet wood, so your going to have to cut up the syuff thats peeling and fold back to get that area to dry before you start glueing
IMO, cut it out and fix it the right way. The money you waste on the quick fix will just be wasted.
For plywood, I don't think your going to get what you looking for??
Plywood is layers that have rotted. The rot fixer is never going to reglue it all toghter.
Then you still have to find some kind of glue that will glue the deck back to the fixed rotted wood. There isn't much that will glue wet wood, so your going to have to cut up the syuff thats peeling and fold back to get that area to dry before you start glueing
IMO, cut it out and fix it the right way. The money you waste on the quick fix will just be wasted.
Skools Out
God
Agreed MJ that won't fix Plywood only fix is to do it right and cut out the bad area and replace the rotten wood.
...it doesn't take much :
Used the Git Rot on a small area that annoys me.
Let me tell ya, for the price of that stuff, it's easier to just cut out a small area of the floor, replace the wood and reseal the deck down to the wood. Now I just applied it an hour ago, so it does need to set up.
That small area is the least of my worries. Trying to sand the deck so I can use the primer on the hull as well as the deck. Been slacking lately, Night work is killing me and the weather hasnt been good. Calling for rain Sat. and colder weather on Sunday. : (
Let me tell ya, for the price of that stuff, it's easier to just cut out a small area of the floor, replace the wood and reseal the deck down to the wood. Now I just applied it an hour ago, so it does need to set up.
That small area is the least of my worries. Trying to sand the deck so I can use the primer on the hull as well as the deck. Been slacking lately, Night work is killing me and the weather hasnt been good. Calling for rain Sat. and colder weather on Sunday. : (
macojoe
Administrator
Well if the deck is in all one good piece then I would tap around with hammer till I found good wood, then square off the spot with pencil.
Take skill saw and cut on the line. Put the deck to one side.
After you have repaired the hole, just have to use resin to glue the deck to the new dry wood.
A little Marine Tex in the space around the patch and paint to match, your all set!!
Take skill saw and cut on the line. Put the deck to one side.
After you have repaired the hole, just have to use resin to glue the deck to the new dry wood.
A little Marine Tex in the space around the patch and paint to match, your all set!!
Skools Out
God
hey as MJ said cut out larger than is bad so you get into good wood. to glass back in just peel the old deck glass off the piece you cut and then bevel the seam of the glass's and patch the seam with several layers of glass start with a small piece that just covers the cut and get about 2 inches wider each piece of glass till the joint is to higher than the original deck and then just block sand level and then paint you'll be good to go.
steplift20
God
funny this comes up i had my deck redone about 18 months ago cost me 2200 dollars
and now i got stress cracks popping up
i told the guy who did the work and al he did was repaint the deck with a color that didnt match [bright white] and the cracks showed up again
its not structual just stress cracks but it still sucks
i think what he did was to remove the top layer of fiber glass removed the rotted wood and replaced it with good stuff
if it happens again i will do it myself because noby is good out there oh yeah the name of the repair place is in monmouth county nj and its called mobil marine just in case you want to know
and now i got stress cracks popping up
i told the guy who did the work and al he did was repaint the deck with a color that didnt match [bright white] and the cracks showed up again
its not structual just stress cracks but it still sucks
i think what he did was to remove the top layer of fiber glass removed the rotted wood and replaced it with good stuff
if it happens again i will do it myself because noby is good out there oh yeah the name of the repair place is in monmouth county nj and its called mobil marine just in case you want to know
It seems like all members have similiar problems with gelocat cracking. I have only had this boat for 1 week but am uncertain why Wellcraft didn't seal the bottom of the deck as well. It is simply exposed plywood, over the course of a boats life of course humidity will separate the plywood. Once that happens stress cracks. I don't see anything similiar in the gelocat of the bottom of the hull, but my assumption is this is true of the floor as well. I think I might rip the floor out as well to assess the boat as a whole.
reelapeelin
God
Don't feel like Wellcraft is the only one...saw a pic recently of exposed wood on a NEW Grady White under the hull...
