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Last Updated: Monday, May 10th, 2010, Created: Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Weather Restrictions: Contact Cement - Water Based (solvent free)

. WEATHER & RENOVATION is a joint project of: CTV.ca and JonEakes.com designed to help you plan home improvement projects around weather restrictions. If you have just been checking the weather for your project on the CTV web site -- welcome to JonEakes.com where you will find all the details for your home improvements. If you started here and are looking for weather restrictions related to home improvements, follow this link to CTV.ca where you can get your local weather forecast together with weather restrictions for specific products  on the bottom of the page.

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Contact cements -- both solvent based and water based -- are amongst the most useful glues we have as they will stick to most everything. As its name implies, all it requires is "contact", not clamps. Hence both faces of a joint are coated and they are pressed together when it is tacky. Contact Cement is generally used where there is a large surface area compared to the size of the pieces being glued -- not like carpenters glue which is good for gluing edges of boards together. Hence it is good for all kinds of tapes, banding, trim and laminates. Water based contact cement, or what is often called "green" or "solvent free", has one primary weather limitation -- it may not cure at all if the relative humidity is over 80%. And of course it must not freeze before it is cured. First it would be a good idea to take a look at WHAT GLUE WILL STICK TO WHAT? This could even help to choose between solvent or water based Contact Cement. And then click here for details on WORKING WITH CONTACT CEMENT.

Keywords: Adhesive, Ecology, Environmental, Freezing, Glues, Laminate, Outdoors, Products, Renovation, Tape, Trim, Veneer, Weather

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