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Fiberglass repair

ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
edited July 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
My friend got an awesome set of chairs that were pretty weathered from being outside for years. He hosed them off and "scrubbed the ever loving shit out of them", when lo, he discovered that he was covered in fiberglass shards. He wants to know if he has totally fucked up these chairs or if, and how, he can fix them.

My response was that it sounded like he removed the sealant that was on the furniture (some sort of plastic coat), and that he just had to re-apply some sort of resin/sealer to the areas that he really roughed up to keep the chairs from falling apart in peoples skin.

Good idea/bad idea?

note: I have never worked with fiberglass myself, but I've been exposed to a decent material handling and education, so that was all guess work from me.

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  • SunstrandSunstrand Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    If he gets some resin and puts it on the chairs it'll seal them up again. He'll probably have to sand the resin down and paint the chairs, if he wants them to look nice that is. It's not that hard to work with the stuff, it does however start to set up in 15 minutes or so you have to be quick. I just used some a couple of weeks ago on my dad's fifth wheel, and after sanding and painting I can't even tell there was a problem.

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