Not termites!

[scottgrissom]

Good afternoon,
The other day I noticed, what appeared to be mud in the inside of my boat. After pulling up the floor board I notice the boat had be infested with termites. Luckily a good friend of mine works at a termite company and may be able to help me out, but the damage has been done. I think if I can exterminate the termites then I can treat the wood. Does anyone know of a putty, form or mix I can inject into the damaged wood to give back some support? I plan to drill a few hole so I can inject the replacement in without causing a lot of fiberglass damage. Thank for your help.
RSDG

 

[sdunt]

Re: Not termites!

Check out rot doctor http://www.rotdoctor.com/glass/GLmain.html but any thin epoxy could be used. I dont' know how you are going to totally fill the area the little critters removed.

Termites also like a source of water, it would sound like you have wet foam or wet wood to start out with.

I guess the test is when you drill those holes to inject epoxy, if the wood you drill out is wet, get out your grinder and plan on some time in the garage doing a rebuild.

Interesting tidbit from book I read, if you drill a hole in wood cored fiberglass panel and attach a hose and funel for each 1 foot you mount the funnel above the hole you are pushing the epoxy in with 7 pounds of force. So if you put 2 feet of hose on the hole and pour in epoxy it has 14 PSI pressure on the core.

 

[Purduebarry]

Re: Not termites!

CPES - Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer, sets up rock hard, provided everything is bone dry to begin with. It is however thin as water so you will need to figure out how to keep if from running out.

Sdunt - I'm not sure about your calculation, I'd question the 14 PSI. You may be confusing this for water column. Inches of water column are not the same as PSI, pounds per sqare inch. 1 psi = 27.68 in h20. The two foot tube would equate to about 2 PSI of pressure, positive pressure, yes but I don't think it would come close to 14 PSI.