removing felt in expansion joint
 

In my garage there is a felt material in the expansion joint. It is
20 years old and dirty and rotted. Is there anyway I can pull this
felt out, or cut off enough enough material such that it is low enough
for me to fill in with a caulking?

I have already filled the other joint running across with caulking,
which has no felt material in that one.

The reason is I have coated my floor with epoxy and cosmeticly the
rotted felt looks bad now, plus I wanted to minimize the insect and
moisture crawling up.

"jj3000" wrote in message
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In my garage there is a felt material in the expansion joint. It is
20 years old and dirty and rotted. Is there anyway I can pull this
felt out, or cut off enough enough material such that it is low enough
for me to fill in with a caulking?

I have already filled the other joint running across with caulking,
which has no felt material in that one.

The reason is I have coated my floor with epoxy and cosmeticly the
rotted felt looks bad now, plus I wanted to minimize the insect and
moisture crawling up.

I'd be tempted to try using my pressure washer's fine-stream to clean out
the joint.
Another approach would be to use a circular saw, with either a throw-away
blade or a diamond-cutter blade, set to a depth which takes out sufficient
felt material.


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Mark Hald
Pepperell, MA

On 26 Jan 2005 11:16:56 -0800, (jj3000) wrote:

In my garage there is a felt material in the expansion joint. It is
20 years old and dirty and rotted. Is there anyway I can pull this
felt out, or cut off enough enough material such that it is low enough
for me to fill in with a caulking?

I have already filled the other joint running across with caulking,
which has no felt material in that one.

The reason is I have coated my floor with epoxy and cosmeticly the
rotted felt looks bad now, plus I wanted to minimize the insect and
moisture crawling up.

Maybe just dig it out with an old chisel.

"sPONiX" wrote in message
In my garage there is a felt material in the expansion joint. It is
20 years old and dirty and rotted. Is there anyway I can pull this
felt out, or cut off enough enough material such that it is low enough
for me to fill in with a caulking?


Maybe just dig it out with an old chisel.

That would work
Or even get hi-tech and use something with a hook on the end to pull it up.