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rockies
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# Posted: 22 May 2019 07:47pm
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One product you will definitely use on your cabin build is a peel and stick tape. These tapes seal the connection between window flanges and the walls, around door openings and also the seams between sheets of sheathing.
Some tapes stick really well, others suck. These articles from the Building Green website explain what to look for in a tape, whether you need a primer and under what conditions the tape should be installed.
https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/stickiness-explained-making-building-tapes-and-mem branes-stay-put
https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/shocking-truth-about-tapes-emerges-wingnut-test-fa cility
https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/our-real-world-flashing-tape-tests-find-clear-winn er
https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/testing-pressure-sensitive-tapes-rounds-two-and-th ree
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KinAlberta
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# Posted: 25 May 2019 05:08pm
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As an aside years ago I’d read an article about a historic house window repair guy using some really high quality paintable tape on an exterior window sill.
I thought that was brilliant. Would never have thought it possible.
We’ve primed and repainted our cabins’ old wooden window sills but that just doesn’t last. Debris like leaves and needles collect, hold moisture, etc and the paint fails and flakes and the wood rots in the corners.
A super adhesive weather proof tape would be great if the prep was good enough. I’ve put 24’ of aluminum flashing along the sill of one cabin but the devil is in the details and it needs more work.
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creeky
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# Posted: 26 May 2019 09:22am
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The new tapes are amazing. I've been using them for flashing windows and doors. I have one of my "tests" on the washroom building. Used a window brand name tape. Its what. 6 years. And fully weather exposed the silver lining is peeling off some parts of the tape but the tape is still holding fast.
Now I'd better get out there and finish that building.
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rockies
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# Posted: 27 May 2019 07:16pm
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KinALberta: I was watching the Sarah Richardson show "Off the Grid" where she is renovating a 100 yr old farmhouse in Creemore Ont and turning it into a B&B and she was wondering what to do with her old wooden windowsills.
The contractor recommended making aluminum covers for them (with appropriate turn-ups at the upper edges to help prevent water from getting between the sill and the house wall).
Each cover looked like a replica of the sill and they cost about $50 each.
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