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General => Owner-Builder Projects => Topic started by: eddiescabin on February 28, 2010, 01:33:28 AM

Title: Caulk suggestions for plastic (hdpe) to painted wood
Post by: eddiescabin on February 28, 2010, 01:33:28 AM
Have some moisture/rain that has seeped in between the hdpe subfloor and stained log round siding...simply need a bead of caulk, but does anyone know of a type/brand that works better on plastic than another?  Thanks
Title: Re: Caulk suggestions for plastic (hdpe) to painted wood
Post by: glenn kangiser on February 28, 2010, 01:54:21 AM
Here is what the company I sub for supplies me as some of the best for steel and other things to wood.

http://www.bestmaterials.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=1066

Sticks to everything that gets within 2 feet of it and doesn't want to come off.

Different colors too.

Title: Re: Caulk suggestions for plastic (hdpe) to painted wood
Post by: eddiescabin on February 28, 2010, 06:35:27 PM
Thanks Glenn, looks like just the type!  Colors too....Im easy to please!
Title: Re: Caulk suggestions for plastic (hdpe) to painted wood
Post by: glenn kangiser on March 01, 2010, 12:31:23 AM
BTW Eddie - keep the tubes dry as moisture softens the cardboard tube and it may blow out.. also - if you warm them a bit if cold it will flow better.  Stretches 800% after dry I think it said - real rubbery and will handle quite a bit of joint movement.

I taped an older questionable tube with Duct tape yesterday and it worked fine.  I warmed it on the stove.  I attached and sealed a flashing to glass on my greenhouse to stop a leak.