by ZendoDeb » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:23 pm
deck99 wrote:Do our home improvement stores carry the FRP panels? Are the FRP panels the same thing that lowes carries to cover shower walls, restaurant walls, etc?
Probably not...
Filon is fairly flexible, so that it will take a bend around a teardrop. The gelcoat used in the interior applications "should" be UV resistant - I don't know of any that isn't. But filon WILL be UV resistant.
It also has a finish more like a new car.
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them.... The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final anchorage." - Arthur Ransome: Racundra's First Cruise, 1923