Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Adhesives Product: White & Yellow Exterior Carpenters Glue
Temperature Limitations: Surface and glue must be above +10 C (+50 F) during application - some glues require warmer.
Rain Limitat...
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Category: Adhesives Product: Polyurethane carpenter's glue (i.e. Gorilla Glue)
Temperature Limitations: Surface and glue must be above +20 C (+68 F) and below +45 C (+113 F)
Rain Limitations: Must remain...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Adhesives Product: Polyurethane Construction Adhesive
Temperature Limitations: Above +5 C (+40 F) and below +30 C (+86 F)
Rain Limitations: No rain for 1 hour
Wind Limitations: n/a
Humidity ...
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Category: Adhesives Product: Thermal Plastic Construction Adhesive
Temperature Limitations: -25 C (-13 F) to +60 C (+140 F) -- varies widely by product
Rain Limitations: n/a
Wind Limitations: n/a
Hum...
When you want to attach tiles where you would have to support them while the adhesive dries, like on a sloped surface or a ceiling, Chester from Metochosin, BC has a solution.
Put the ceramic adhesive around the outside edge and then apply some hot glue to the centre. Push it into place and hold...
There are quite a variety of techniques and tricks to getting trim to stay put on the edge of a particle board or plywood panel. Many plastic and metal trims come in a 'T' shape. This requires you to cut a groove down the centre of the panel edge, just the right width and well centred to receive ...
Woodworking requires glue and a good glue joint is one that has just the right quantity of glue spread evenly over the entire surface being glued. When you run the glue bottle down the edge of a board and simply push up another board, the glue tends to spread out as in the first photo, where I am...
Tooling Caulking
Brad, who works in the trade of caullking high rise buildings, sent in the tip of dipping a shaped piece of wood into Sunlight detergent before tooling the caulking. This gives the caulking the exact shape you want, but nothing sticks to the wooden tool. Note that his tool is n...
Glue or Adhesive?
What is the difference between a glue and an adhesive? Only vocabulary, although often Glue is the term used for DIYers and Adhesive for professionals -- or for some Glue is liquid and Adhesive is gunned from a tube with a caulking gun or applied with a notched trowel. Whether...
