Recent content by DarrenCharles

@Rlime. I have heard of Undrdog coatings and researched them some. The products I looked at state that they are not a ceramic coating. The company suggests that much of ceramic coating advertisement is misleading, tacitly suggesting their product is just as good. This is an example of the...

@Sjisailor. Thanks. Read the link. (3) different products were named. Didn’t come away feeling convinced about 1 product over another. I was convinced by many posts that Kevin in the PNW is the go-to guy. I contacted him and he does not sell his product retail and there are no installers of...

Hello all. Can anyone provide information about the best ceramic coating product for a boat? Are ceramic coatings in fact the best protection? I researched threads and saw the January 2019 ceramic coating post. There was not much definitive information in that. There was an informative YouTube...

You're not along Bowball. I just can't be happy relaxing, socializing, having a docktail at 5:00, etc. I need more purpose, whether it is something really small like tinkering and making something better or helping someone out in need. I can only take so many pleasure cruises too. But if...

Scam, Not Scam The previous replies appear to cover all of the ways of being scammed of which I am aware. My wife and I were scammed once in the early Internet days - counterfeit certified bank check. Several years after that, I advertised for sale on Craigslist our 1950’s vintage aluminum...

Our Plans We hope to make a loop from the Erie Canal to Lake Ontario to the Thousand Islands, continuing down the mighty St. Lawrence River to Montreal then Lake Champlain, then the Champlain Canal back to the Hudson River and finishing at Erie Canal Lock 1 in Waterford. Our timing is...

Wow! Better real estate investment info on this Trawler Forum than Real Estate Forums. AlanT - great info. I am not sure I can add much to what has already been said, but I can repeat what I think is most important which might add value. My wife and I have invested in real estate for over 30...

Or the OP could use a hybrid approach. Use sheets of aluminum faced Polyiso for the large surface areas and then spray foam around the sheets and the smaller difficult areas for an air tight seal.

I think it would be a good idea to prep the steel as you would for paint and follow through with the painting - not let the spray foam take the place of paint. Make sure the paint is compatible with the urethane CLOSED CELL spray foam. The spray foam bond is tenacious. It would probably only...

Have you considered applying a 2-part urethane spray foam insulation to the exterior walls to replace the existing? https://www.amazon.com/Dow-Froth-Spray-Insulation-Class/dp/B019G0KJ1Y If installed well, there are no air gaps and therefore no way for water vapor to reach the steel walls, so...

Muriatic acid is Hydrochloric Acid. A better choice for rust removal is phosphoric acid, which is what is in many of rust remover products in the store. HCl works faster than phosphoric acid, but it is difficult to stop it from reacting with the base metal. Here is a good description of what...

Bottom Paint Experiment Update. I decided to bottom paint our boat. I left the vertical surfaces below the waterline unpainted as an experiment because it is an easy area to clean. I found that if I cleaned it once a week, there was no significant build up and easy to clean. However, I would...