Miracle product needed

[Quilbilly]

I have a very slow leak in a window. The window is in a plywood and epoxy house side and it is bedded in Sikaflex. I don't want to have to remove it, though I know I probably will, but I was wondering if there is anything that will wick into the gap and solidify. Like Click and Clack say it will probably have "Miracle" in the product name. Thanks Todd Miller

[pipefitter]

Sometimes if there is a slow leak and it has been there awhile there could be minor rot starting behind it and covering it with a miracle product will only worsen it.Like letting the water seep in and staying wet longer. I have seen so many things worsened with silicone or caulking. You might try retightening the fasteners that hold the window in but nothing replaces the good old miracle screw driver and it's cousin the miracle putty knife.It isnt a very big job and you might prevent some future damage to the opening.Hopefully the end grains of the ply opening were epoxy sealed before it was installed.If not,now would be a good time before you get delamination there.
Alot of times,when people use sikaflex or 5200 they use so much that alot of solvent is needed to clean it up and then it thins the compound so that when it dries it shrinks terribly causing it to leak.It's actually better to masking tape the area around the window or whatever and wipe it tight to that and then lift the tape other than trying to clean it off with solvents.

[ 09-04-2005, 03:25 AM: Message edited by: pipefitter ]

[Gary E]

Everything pipefitter said is right.

What you did not say is how long this has leaked...

IF a short time, because you just put this window in place and missed a spot, use more of what you used and squirt it in the hole.

IF a longer time, and you didnt just install it, TAKE IT APART AND DOIT RIGHT...

Sheeesh, if it was a gas tank, what would you do?

[ 09-04-2005, 10:31 AM: Message edited by: Gary E ]

[JormaS]

Well, you asked for it :D . Try Capt. Tolley´s Miracle Crack Cure. It is a thin liquid consisting of some solvents plus some rubbery goop. It works its way willingly into minute gaps. Let it solidify and give some more until the gap won´t take any more. It just might work.

[Gary E]

:D ... you reminded me of a friend of mine George Zimm who is in the construction trade and you know how often those guys stretch and reach and bendover... well I just about busted a gut LOL when I saw a product for Rough Hands... "ZIMM's CRACK CREAM"

[pipefitter]

LOL...I once had a coworker that needed a miracle crack cream for the same reasons you describe.One day while I was on drywall stilts screwing the top track of some metal framing,I strategically dropped some of the small panhead screws right down the o'l chute while he was putting the screws in the bottom.Good thing I could run on those things.

[ 09-04-2005, 04:10 PM: Message edited by: pipefitter ]

[Gary E]

Good thing your not an Ironworker putting in HOT RIVITS :D