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Unread 28-07-2009, 08:22
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Re: WHAT TO DO WITH LAST YEAR'S FLOOR?!

Someone took a couple of sheets home to use to slide his garden shed across his backyard. We may use a couple more sheets in the shop behind our bridgeport, but that may take a few years to do. We may finish the bathrooms in our team's building with it, but that may involve more work and politics than just glueing it to the wall.

FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic) panels are made for walls that need to be sanitary and easy to clean, such as commercial kitchens and bathrooms. It is specified a lot for restaurants as it is cheap, and easy to cut and install -- cheaper than quarry tile or other materials, I mean. While the sheets aren't made for flooring*, they are made for cleaning and after washing down the used sheets they can be used for a wall finish. While I wouldn't reuse the regolith for a first-class sanitary area like a school kitchen, for home use for walls or ceilings in the laundry room say would be good.

The construction company I work for uses it for a pizza chain we building in the Boston region. The one we're finishing now had stacks of FRP sheets that could have supplied a dozen fields! You can see it next year as it's just down the block from where the Boston regional competition is at the Agganis arena. Good pizza, too!

Don -- I googled "FRP recycling" and the first couple of hits had some recycling methods. I suspect that scraps are now landfilled unless there is a trash hauler nearby that can do the recycling.

*Witness the judge at one competition that walked across the field in high heels, with a field crew later taping all the tiny holes!
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