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Default caulk - flowing

nestork wrote:
I'm looking for a brand name. Window installers use a sticky caulk
on my windows that is still holding up. It "flows".


You're probably looking for Kop-R-Lastic, which is what most window
companies use on the new windows they install:

It's made by the U.S.E. Hickson Company in Canada and the Henry Company
in the USA under license from the Koppers Company of Australia.

'Kop-R-Lastic | Henry.com' (http://tinyurl.com/9zgdp9b)

I have 66 windows in my building, and I wouldn't use anything BUT
Kop-R-Lastic on them. The reasonw why is that Kop-R-Lastic is a
synthetic rubber that's got excellent adhesion to most construction
materials, BUT, it's cohesive strengeth is even greater than it's
adhesive strength, which means that it sticks to itself better than it
sticks to construction materials. So, when the time comes to replace
your caulk, and it won't come soon, you just get one end of the bead of
Kop-R-Lastic started and it pulls out of the joint just like a rubber
rope.

Here's a picture of me pulling clear Kop-R-lastic off the Suite 3's
dining room window in my building:



http://users.usinternet.com/nkelebay...R-Lastic-1.jpg



Brackets ? See if this works

Greg