Your thoughts on splitting Silicon...

[Stef]

Re: Your thoughts on spliting Silicon...

Rich, i have seen it happen on jobs when the mastick man has been in.

It has happened to us on one job, we went back & cut it out & re-siliconed, the customer never phoned back so i assume that it held.

I had a new door fitted about 6 months ago & its happened on that but i put that down to a bit of residue on the UPVC.
Iv still to get round to sort it but its 1 of them "get it tomorrow" jobs in your own house.

 

[doug boardley]

Re: Your thoughts on spliting Silicon...

I use Ultra silicon and I've never encountered this.

 

[DHTiling]

Re: Your thoughts on spliting Silicon...

Try another brand and see if it still persists.🙂

 

[Rich]

Neale - It has bonded to the tile but not the bath or shower tray

Doug - I have used Ultra loads of times and have never had any problems with it either, up til now

Dave - That is what Im going to do, not really sure what else I can do.


It is not very often that I cant answer these things or find out. There is nothing worse than your work going wrong and you dont know why. Couldn't be for a worse customer as well as she argued about the Silicon before we even did it. I think thats what they call sods law :smilewinkgrin:

 

[DHTiling]

Just a thought... you sure the customer isn't slicing it with a blade , so you do something else as she didn't want it in the first place :lol:

 

[Andy Allen]

yeh sabotage.....get mrs marples in..

 

[Rich]

Just a thought... you sure the customer isn't slicing it with a blade , so you do something else as she didn't want it in the first place :lol:

That had occurred to me to be honest but the Silicon doesnt look messed about with at all, just come away.

 

[White Room]

Do you use any water/fairy liquid when tooling off..

 

[slikt]

I have doen lots of Silicon work in my time and I have only had probs when using meths before hand, especially as the guys I use who install stone worktops, use it all the time to clean up Silicon residue, meths is always good to when installing under mount sinks to quartz and granite to 'clean' the area to Silicon, but not sure about on a non-porus surface (just my tupence worth) 🙂

 

[slikt]

. . . also was gonna ask if you had filled the bath whilst the Silicon was curing, but the shower tray has the same issue 'confused.com'