Sealing leaky windows and doors
I recently discovered a product that worked so well i thought some here would be interested. I live in a high rise apartment building that was built about 1987 by a major NY metro area developer. The building has poured concrete floors and structural columns, exterior large is pre cast concrete blocks. The windows are the type with a stationary center section with a sliding section on each side. My apartment has two sizes of windows both about six feet high, one is seven feet wide the other 12 feet. The seals and weatherstripping on the sliding portions of the windows are so bad that the wind blows insde. Although our weather is not severe, we will hit zero or below once a winter and with electric heat that gets expensive. I found a DAP product called Seal N Peel to seal the huge air leaks in my windows. The product comes in standard caulk tubes. You apply with a caulking gun and when you want to remove it you just peel it off. At first I was aprehensive but the stuff actually comes off very easily. It is similar to the stuff used to glue your new credit card to the mailing materials.
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I've used it and like it also. I've left some on a window for over a year, and it pulled off without lifting the paint.
Red Devil makes a very similar product: Zip-A-Way
You talking bout that clear booger stuff they use to stick the paper shipping cover on FHB?
Joe H
i- I've also have had success with backer rod on sliding patio doors. I press it into the crack where the sliding door meets the fixed one. Nice thing about using backer rod is that you can quickly remove & reseal if you need to open the door before spring. jimz
That product works well, but were the fumes intolerable?
Stunk for days when I used it.