How To Use Fibreglass Matting

Be sure your temperature and humidity ranges are correct.

How to use fibreglass matting.

White areas indicate dry fabric. Check us out on facebook and like our fan p. You ll need to cut a number of other layers each one smaller than the last until you have enough layers to fill the area being repaired. Chopped strand mat chopped strand mat is also known as fiberglass mat.

Stack them to make a mat of fiberglass cloth and put it aside for a few minutes. In this video i show an example of laying fiberglass cloth in a mold that already has the gel coat painted in. Wet the surface of the ground metal with the resin mixture using a 4 inch felt roller. Using the utility knife cut one layer of the fiberglass cloth to the size of the area needing to be repaired.

Remove any air bubbles and flatten the mat with an air roller. Use a polymer paint one or two part over your fiberglass. You will need to need to pre cut the fibreglass into lengths across the roof parallel to the drip trim start by rolling out the fibreglass overlapping by at least 50mm. Use a foam roller or brush to wet out fabric on vertical surfaces.

It is made up of short strands of fibers that are randomly oriented and held together with a resin binder. The mat or cloth will seem to melt into the resin as you spread it and you can use the brush and additional coats of resin to build up the layer of fiberglass to a thickness of up to 1 4 inch 0 6 cm. Add the remaining layers of mat following the same process for each layer. Lay mat on or in your form and spread the resin mixture over it with a disposable paint brush.

Choose the best place to finish laminating the roof always best to work toward the ladder you don t want to be stuck in the corner of your roof with no escape. Properly wet out fabric is transparent. Spread the epoxy over the fiberglass cloth surface with a plastic spreader working the epoxy gently from the pool into the dry areas. The fiberglass resin binder needs styrene to dissolve properly.

This makes it incompatible with epoxy resin.