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Default Dap kitchen and bath caulk still tacky?

On Nov 11, 12:44 pm, Nate Nagel wrote:
Should I be worried? Tube says "shower in three hours;" I finished
recaulking bathtub about 1AM and caulk is still tacky. I did lay down a
huge ugly finger-smoothed bead as the tile work next to the tub was not
so neat. (not sloppy, just huge - probably 3/16" or more) This is the
Dap kitchen and bath white silicone.

nate

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Huge beads of silicone will often shrink and cause gaps. This is a
drawback to silicone.

That said, it should be dry by now. I have had brand new tubes of
kitchen and bath caulk (non-silicone) that would never set, not even
two weeks later.

JK