bajadave1
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Pila/cement sealer????
What is everyone using to seal the walls of their block/cement pilas? I've been told about a two part epoxy, but would like to hear more input. This
is for a potable system. Thanks.
Dave
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oladulce
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We're using a product called Crystal Lok on a below-ground concrete cisterna:
http://www.corroseal.com/documents/CL_TechBul.pdf
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bajajudy
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OD
Can you buy that stuff in Mexica?
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oladulce
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Bajajudy-
They list a distributor in Ensenada, but the company makes other "Marine coatings" so I don't know if they carry this product specifically.
MEXICO
Ensenada BC
Rem. Y Naviera Azteca
S.A. De C.V.
617-8-12-45
617-8-12-45 Tel/Fax
Here's the link to all the distributors:
http://www.corroseal.com/documents/_Corroseal_Distributors.p...
Looks like they have more distributors now than when I bought the stuff last year. At that time we called San Diego Marine Hardware and they had a 5
gal cubeta shipped to our door (from Wash.).
Our tank is 4 ft deep, 30 ft long, and 8 ft wide and the top forms the sidewalk around the garage(couldn't go deeper due to lava rock below). The
access hatch is a 2x2 ft opening we located inside the utility room in an attempt to keep the dirt to a minimum. I'm the smaller of the 2 of us and,
unless I'm more claustrophobic than I realize, I'll be applying the Crystal Lok to the inside tank walls in 2 weeks and will let ya'll know how it
goes.
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Bob and Susan
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better vent the stuff or....you'll die
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Mexray
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Or borrow a diver's 'Hooka'...
...and use it to breath while you're in the 'pit'...with only one opening, it will be hard to vent properly...caution here!
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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Bob and Susan
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Yea if I have a problem I sending my wife susan too
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oladulce
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Hmmmm.
I was being A.R. that the sealer was applied properly and had only considered the confined space scenario and not the asphyxiation. I may reconsider
and pay the boys to do it. Tell Susan she can relax Bob.
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oladulce
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Crystal Lok report
The stuff was easy to apply, is non-toxic so no confined-space asphyxiation, and there's a sheen on the surfaces of the concrete tank when it's
exposed to water which must be the "barrier".
One 5 gallon bucket easily covered our below ground cisterna with a lot left over so we applied it to the inside walls of a large 4-chamber concrete
septic "thing" (I don't know the correct term for that 10 foot deep, cavernous monster- "Underground Apartments dwellings" maybe !)
Seems like good stuff.
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