“With the handyman’s secret weapon…duct tape.”
His offhanded remark about “composite knowledge” leads me to believe that he’s somehow killing off the fishy bad oogey stuff, and replacing the more porous wall and floor material with a composite that is impervious to bacterial infiltration on the cellular level.
There. Don’t I sound smart?? Why is it that HE still gets all the gals??? >sob<
( …and, I dont’ smell like fishy bacteria !! ) 
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a woman on the show. Though, I do hope that you aren’t telling me that Red Green’s advice isn’t very good. I’ve been looking for a stick and some ice for ages. 
Yeah, I’ve been wondering how he is fixing the walls to.
I’m assuming you’re using ROCAL to nuke the little creatures then maybe some sealent? ya know that stuff in the tube with the pointy bit that you have to use the metal frame gun thingy to get it to come out?
Yay technical talk from me!
And you would essentially be on target Cartooniverse. The difficulty in this project is that the facility is constantly near freezing and wet, and subject to chemical washing almost every day. These conditions are neccessary during fish processing. This requires some versatility in selecting resin systems and filler materials that are compatible with the various substrates that I encounter.
Previously, standard painting and masonry practices were employed. But the interior showed a lot of peeling paint , floor cracks and modifications/repairs in various stages of disrepair. Pallet jacks and forklifts punch holes in the walls
Now the standard practices of building repair would be fine if the environmental conditions were normal, but the owner can not shut the plant down, and you can’t just use any paint. My solutions are very costly in comparison to standard practices, but they are very effective. And my repairs look good too.
Stop it, stop it. You’re getting me hot. And I’m a guy.
Sorry Fellahs, but since I Grokked what he is doing first, I get to be considered grienspace’s bitch.
Y’all just fold it up and take it home. Me and my boy, we’re gonna go mix up some two-part expanding polyurethane foam and see what gets hard.
Okay, now that the heavily veiled homoerotic flirtation stuff is out of the way ( not that it’s not fun…), I have to ask the next simple and obvious question:
If you come up with a method of
A) Detoxifying the existing walls by stripping off the outer layers wall by wall, and then applying a new composite layer to said wall, then
B) Doing the next adjoining wall surface, then finally
C) Doing the same to the flooring with an added abrasive overcoating for safety’s sake, then how the heck are you going to affect these changes without:
A) Having each wall be sullied AS you prep it by the constant onslaught of more ice water being splashed about, and
B) The amount of fishy bacteria that’s airborne becoming an issue as you apply the new impervious layering?
Can you literally make the epoxy have an antibacterial element IN it, so that as it’s setting but before it’s impervious, it is killing the bacteria being trapped in it? Or, would that make the epoxy resin layers unstable or poorly set?
Futhermore, can you do some sort of a “pre-fab” arrangement, where you have formed a single piece, or large panels at least for each wall that you are going to re-build? Then you can strip, prep and epoxy wall sections at a time instead of having an entire room stripped and exposed to more fishy bacteria, while the entire room awaits the application of the first coatings of new epoxy resins?
And, do you like chinese food, walks in the rain and Gary Cooper movies? 
Seriously, I’m kind of very curious about how you’re going to do the job with these guys. I’ve had a tiny bit of experience with carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites and I’m now adither to see what you’re gonna do.
Fess up, big fellah.
Yer Bitch,
Cartooniverse
" If the women don’t find you handsome…
then they’d better find you handy."
Here I am!
Actually, thats mostly why my handle is ‘handy’. (NOT for the other reason).
Actually, I would say:
“If the women don’t find you handy…then they’d better find you handsome.”
In my case, that just indicates that they have good eyesight. And good taste.
Oh no, (visions of fatal attraction in a prison setting)
I’m reminded of a job I did for a US admiral years ago. He had a yacht with an obsolete sonar tube apparatus to be replaced with the simple transducer thru hull. After restoring the hull where the sonar tube exited with the standard fiberglass repair, I went inside and poured some two part polyurethane foam into the tube. However, I had mixed a little to much as the foam rose above the opening. As it started to spill over onto the sole (floor) of the cabin, I quickly scraped around the hole with a wide putty knife so that I could quickly clean the sole before it was too late. the result was that the mushroom head was lifted off the floor by the still expanding foam which now was only expanding vertically within the tube where the exothermic heat was maintained for a longer period. Well when the expansion was complete, I neatly sliced the protuberence off and placed it on the mantlepiece where it stands to this day. To some it represents a skinny mushroom. To others, well I leave it to your prolific imagination Cartooniverse
Detoxification is accomplished by the cleaning crews. My role is to simply effect restorations that eliminate cracks, crevices and holes where the cleaning crews might miss a colony.
It has been difficult. I have to isolate an area , often with poly taped from the ceiling and use a blow torch too dry the prepped substrate as well as speed up the cure of the epoxy. No abrasive overcoating is required for the floor repairs as the epoxy formulations I use are pigmented to match the colour coded concrete floors and are abraded to perfectly match the existing floor level.
Not concerned about airborne bacteria. If I inadvertantly encapsulate some bacteria, the epoxy will certainly take care of them
Epoxy has long been recognized as an anti-bacterial as well as an anti-fungal agent on its own.
Unfortunately I can only work small areas at a time. I don’t see any prefab possibilities
No…No…and No. Well Chinese food’s okay.
Seriously, I’m not dealing with cutting edge composite technology here. I would much rather talk about the vacuum bagged carbon fiber/spectra/vinylester composite I designed for a kayak I built about 10 years ago. I reduced the weight of a Current Designs Solstice kayak from 50 to 27 lbs. The exterior finish was a shimmering gorgeous black weave under a crystal clear gelcoat.
It just cost an extra 2500 dollars Canadian though .
Okay, I’ve taken my industrial queries to e-mail. Tell us, grienspace, have any of these fine femme fatales approached you directly?
We know you’re happily married, but still- have any of em taken bolder steps?