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Concrete with exposed, frost
damaged, steel reinforcing bar
Sometimes you will encounter a concrete wall,
sill, lintel etc. where water ingress and
subsequent frost damage has caused the
concrete to crack or even split into a crevice
where you can even see the buried (rusted)
steel reinforcing bar. Solution is as follows.
If only a crack, feed Owatrol oil into the crack
and allow to dry over a few days. That can be
filled and painted later. If crack has deteriorated
into a channel with steel re-bar clearly exposed,
gouge out the loosened concrete section with a
flat tip screwdriver or a steel
Owatrol is probably the only long
lasting solution to this frost
samaged window sill. Owatrol on
rebar cures rust.
chisel. Sweep out any loose particles of dust /
concrete. Saturate the channel with Owatrol Oil
and you will see that the oil will follow the line
of the steel bar; even in underneath the
concrete (further than water could ever reach).
When dry in a few days, fill the channel with
some sand and cement mix, level / finish off.
When concrete had dried, paint as
usual,preferablywithoilbasedundercoat/paintwi
thOwatrol oilinthem.(Ifrepainting with water
based paint – stir in 25% E-B, another Owatrol
product, [www.igoe.ie] into first coat for
maximum grip)
Ride on mowers, tools and
machinery
Rust is a serious problem on the underside of
ride-on or even ordinary lawn mowers as well
as other tools and equipment that come into
contact with wet grass etc. After use, or when
you plan to lay up the tool etc., apply Owatrol
Oil liberally to all exposed steel sections and
that will stop it rusting over the winter keeping
it in good order for next season.
Owatrol Oil is the perfect way to
protect tools, mowers, machinery,
etc.
