If you don’t want to buy new pipes from “fiberglass manufacturers”, you can still get fiberglass cloth and proceed for leakage repairing process when required. Fiberglass cloth is an affordable and cost effective product. You must have experienced with pipe repairs as it is the most common problem faced by every person in his life.
Instead of replacing the leaked FRP pipe, you can fix it using fiberglass simply. In this post, pipe manufacturers will guide you step-by-step to explain the basic pipe patching procedure.
You can follow the guidelines and repair your FRP pipe at home!
- Wash away all the dirt and rust from around the leak and cover the hole using a thick, painted- on resin coat.
- Apply the heavy, hairy fiberglass cloth
- Coat on more liquid
- Let it set
If you experience leakage in high-pressure pipe, it will be necessary for you to wrap the cloth around the conduit.
You need to collect the things-
- a can of resin
- small bottle of hardener
- Some heavy fiberglass cloth
- A pair of scissors
- Brush
- A bowl or container for mixing up the ingredients
It is always important to cover your eyes with safety glasses because if any catalyst gets into your eyes, it will cause blindness unless you take immediate action within 4 seconds and wash the hardener out from eye. If your eye gets damaged, the loss cannot be recovered. So, don’t forget to put on your glasses while mixing the ingredients.
After the pipes were dried completely, press aluminum foil into the crack and squeeze it down until it flushes with the surface. You can paint the spot with a mix of resin and hardener. Make sure you use enough of the chemical so that wood can completely soak it.
Cut one inch fiberglass strip and make sure it should be long enough to circle the crack many times. Swirl the strip in the mixture until it becomes glassy. Stretch it as tightly as possible around the pipe carefully. Squeeze away all the white air spots and add more liquid compound along the patch edge to eliminate rough spots if remain.
This is it. This is how you can repair your leaking frp pipe. For more tips, you can contact your fiberglass pipe manufacturers and ask about fiberglass strips.
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