JOINT

JOINTS OF BRIDGE

CAULKING EAST SURELY THE SIMPLEST OPERATION BUT REQUEST OF THECARE AND THE ATTENTION

At which moment to caulk?

Check the weather bus first of all if you are outside will know that the support must imperatively be dry and the moisture of the air of a small percentage.

To vacuum-clean the support, dust well harmed the fixing of the joint.

Masking

The installation of an adhesive in periphery will be quite useful to avoid making overflow the black joint difficult to clean. To more easily apply it one you council to lay down the roller directly to the coating and to unroll it while following the edge in order not to draw too much above, then to strengthen advance progressively

Caulking

DO NOT FORGET THE GLOVES

Method

For the easiest method and also most economic we will use cartridges cut tubes large diameter. By holding the gun at the vertical and one the joint progressively manner with filling will push the grooves well. Progressively spread out the joint using a spatula by taking care to fill the grooves well and to scrape the surplus of matter.

Consumption of this method approximately 2 cartridges of 290 ml/m²

Drying

once finished caulking, it will be necessary to await a 24 hours minimum before sandpapering, on the other hand are not long of too in withdrawing the adhesives of masking.