Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Product sources need product for sealing surface rust on culvert

Wow. I'm taking all of this in. So much more to consider than I realized.

Glad I asked!

Take what I say with a grain of salt...I sometimes throw things out just to see if I can learn something.....and in here I do often learn a lot.

High flash point Naptha might be interesting for the bystanders, not so interesting for the person inside. They'd need a scuba set-up and a fire suit. I wonder how far out the ends of the pipe the fireball would travel if a spark were generated??

Maybe because it's high flash point, it wouldn't ignite with a spark?

Hmm. The word "fireball" adds a whole new visual to this project.

jkrueger....I am sort of in "north east" Texas as well over in Wills Point, what town or towns are ya'll near?

We're in Sulphur Springs.

Good area to be in! George1 and Highflyer is in that area. I've got a friend that's in that area as well.

Been at the Walmart in Sulphur many times on my way to Lake Fork. Stayed at the new Hampton Inn last year.

Haha. We go there all the time. We actually live in Frisco and work in Plano, but head out to our property as much as we can.

Ok just one question, how much is the sealer going to cost? Would it be more cost eff. to dig it out and replace it with plastic????

That's a great question, and one I'm starting to wonder myself. I'm not ready to have it dug out quite yet, so I guess I need to "take the plunge" and see how far down the rust has spread in that 40 feet of pitch blackness...

Maybe I can talk my husband into going in first and I'll video-tape it!

Seriously, I do need to figure out how much of that culvert will need treating.

Same here....small world.
I live in Castle Hills over near Hwy 121 & Josey. (10 mins from Frisco)
Had a place at Lake Fork the last 25 years.
Decided last Spring to sell Fork & do the acreage/pond thing with my brother.
Love that The Bush Turnpike goes all the way to I-30 now.

I would think you could find someone to band-aid fix it with sealers/ect...probably be cheaper than replacement and the "fix" could last several years.

don'
Don't wamt to hi-jack your thread - don't know diddly about culverts but know a lot about ponds and fish.
I live in Plano and ponds 20 miles north of Sulpher Springs.

Headed for Highflyer's lake for a quick trip after a bit - he's near Winnsboro - you have many PondBossers nearby.
Cheers,
George

It's fun to "meet" fellow pond owners/lovers, especially when they're so close.

We're always open to seeing others' ponds and showing ours off as well.

George do you know Glenn Irvin the realtor in Sulphur Springs? Glenn is a really nice guy that showed my brother and I a few properties in the Sulphur Springs area. He has a nice web-site, with lots of pictures, and seems to always have some nice properties with ponds listed.

http://www.glennirvin.com/landlistings.htm

We kow Glenn! Very nice and helpful. He keeps asking us to list our property with him, but I keep telling him we'll never sell.

We need to have a Mini-PB N.E. Texas field trip for us local yokals that can't make the Big-un you guys are presently headed for.
Brian (Highflyer) and I have discussed it previously and will bounce the idea off him on our way to his place this morning.
I belleve he will be at the conference maybe tommorow..he has a neat place.

Now baack to culverts...

Count us in for the Mini-PB N.E. Texas field trip!

Yes, back to the culvert. I want to go the least expensive route, as long as it's effective, for now. Mike said our dam and culvert were in great condition, just needed to stop the rust before it gets too bad.

I'll go back and review all the options for stopping the rust, and then decide how to seal it based on input.

Esshup's mention of the fireball inside a 40-foot tunnel still has me spooked.

whats the stuff in a can they use to seal a screen door on bottom of a row boat. LOL

You may be on to something...
maybe this stuff might be a cheap $20 band-aid?

Flex Seal

They don't show the prep that they may have done on the boat.

why not hit it with the rust converter and over coat it with a good old undercoating for a car..............although not sure if it'll leach nasty stuff into the water.Maybe the roll on bedliner stuff would be a bit better???As I'm sure you know there really isn't a off the shelf culvert coating,so whatever you use I'd be sure to check if any nasty chems pose a threat.


As far as drying it goes,I had good results using a leaf blower to dry parts of the bilge on a clam boat before welding and painting...........Again though this is sort of fireball territory,if not worse as there is a guarantee of co emissions in a 40ft tube to be strong enough to KILL you .Maybe compressed air from a compressor (not gas) would be a better choice


Can I ask what purpose the culvert serves?because to be completely honest if it was a non critical area and I inspected it,I too would recommend treating the rust to a customer(boat/ship experience not pond though),yet if it was mine and non critical I'd just keep an eye on it for replacement and budget accordingly.Although that is just me.

That's what it appears this flex seal stuff is. Rubberized automotive undercoating.

Could not find a MSDS on it, so no way to tell what's really up with it.

Go to any auto parts store and pick it up quite a bit cheaper.

I am not actually advising you to do this, as a fix for your problem.