Railway sleepers and tar deposits
Brian Scowcroft
few other purposes around the garden. Everything was fine until the
warm weather and the sleepers started to leak a tarry/oily gloop.
Does anyone know if it'll wear off or are we "stuck" with it? Is there
any realistic way to remove it?
Thanks for any help anyone can give.
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Brian Scowcroft
Simon Avery
Hello Brian
BS> I've got hold of a load of railway sleepers to use as path
BS> edging and a few other purposes around the garden.
BS> Everything was fine until the warm weather and the sleepers
BS> started to leak a tarry/oily gloop.
BS> Does anyone know if it'll wear off or are we "stuck" with
BS> it? Is there any realistic way to remove it?
I'm afraid you're rather stuck with it. It'll ooze continually through
the hot days, but it's not a major problem and does keep the wood in
excellent condition.
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Simon Avery, Dartmoor, UK İ http://www.digdilem.org/
Nigel Politzer
I posted the same question yesterday although it hasn't appeared yet for
some reason? Anyway, if you get any useful tips can you let me know?
Thanks
Nigel
In article <602g3GAFCU$6E...@scroft.demon.co.uk>, Brian Scowcroft
<br...@scroft.demon.co.uk> writes
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Mike Crowe
<ni...@politzer.co.uk> writes
>Hi Brian,
>
>I posted the same question yesterday although it hasn't appeared yet for
>some reason? Anyway, if you get any useful tips can you let me know?
>
>Thanks
>
>Nigel
>
I don't know if it would work, but B & Q sell a bitumen type water
sealer called Aqua Seal. I did my flat kitchen roof and the garden shed
about 3 years ago and it has stopped the rain entering ever since. My
theory is, that if that stuff seals and keeps water 'out', it will keep
the tar stuff 'in'.
Just a thought, and as it is not too expensive, worth a try I would have
thought.
Mike
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>I don't know if it would work, but B & Q sell a bitumen type water
>sealer called Aqua Seal. I did my flat kitchen roof and the garden shed
>about 3 years ago and it has stopped the rain entering ever since. My
>theory is, that if that stuff seals and keeps water 'out', it will keep
>the tar stuff 'in'.
>
>Just a thought, and as it is not too expensive, worth a try I would have
>thought.
'Fraid not. All sorts of iffy tars, fats and oils were used to
'preserve' old railway sleepers and some of them will pass through
Aqua Seal like a hot knife through warm butter. Add to that the fact
that many sleepers have been rained on with diesel, coal tar, toilet
effluent, engine drivers' phlegm and British Rail coffee for god knows
how many years, and you have to wonder why folk want them in the
garden in the first place!
Other than an expensive epoxy sealant, I don't know of any
product that will effectively seal in all the nastikemmickles to be
found in a railway sleeper.
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Mike Crowe
> and British Rail coffee for god knows
>how many years,
:-((
wot more can i say?
nuffink.
Mike with a sour smell under his nose.
I feel qwite ill :-((