 | | 
18-11-2006, 6:53 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,540
Thanks: Gave 190, Got 190 | removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
Been trying to remove some clear silicon sealant from a sink and the stuff is a nightmare to remove. Been scraping at it for ages and the stuff just doesn't wanna go.
Any plumbers/DIYers out there with any suggestions?
Ta.
__________________
----------------------------------------------------------
With no fences or walls on the Internet, who needs Gates and Windows?
Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk. | 
|  | |
18-11-2006, 7:01 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: J6 M5
Posts: 2,238
Thanks: Gave 31, Got 126 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
Either use silcone sealant remover (screwfix sell it) or a scapel blade and try to get it off in complete strips.
| |
| | |
18-11-2006, 7:02 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Prominent Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Leeds
Posts: 3,064
Thanks: Gave 128, Got 466 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
As poster above says. I have used it and it works a treat, if you have any small cuts on your hands though it stings like hell. 
__________________
My flickr Pentax K20D/ K10D Sigma 10-20mm/Tamron 70-300mm/Pentax 50mm f1.4/Sigma 24-70mm DG-EX MyA/V
"Chance favors the prepared mind"
| |
| | |
18-11-2006, 7:34 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Veteran Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Nottingham
Posts: 5,305
Thanks: Gave 16, Got 280 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
I recently had to do the same with a bathroom sink, I'd bought some sealant remover but in the end I just used a spare stanley knife blade which worked a treat.
| |
| | |
18-11-2006, 8:00 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales
Posts: 932
Thanks: Gave 175, Got 145 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
like they all said really. Doitall sell unibond silicone remover for about a fiver.
Put it on leave for an hour and its just rubs and washes off with very little effort.
Also is you are putting back use a good quality sealer, unibond do one with a lifetime guarantee for mold. Which is the reason for me removing in the first place, cheap silicone lol.
Got unibond now  | |
| | |
19-11-2006, 6:25 AM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 492
Thanks: Gave 23, Got 15 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
hey hun white spirit works other half was a painter and decorator  | |
| | |
19-11-2006, 8:40 AM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,540
Thanks: Gave 190, Got 190 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
thanks
Will try thr white spirit 1st as I already have some of that.
Good tip about the quality sealant tho... thanks
__________________
----------------------------------------------------------
With no fences or walls on the Internet, who needs Gates and Windows?
Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk. | |
| | |
19-11-2006, 10:07 AM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Prominent Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Coventry
Posts: 4,086
Thanks: Gave 107, Got 271 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
Always use a knife myself, sharper the better.
__________________
Relysis 40 inch LCD, Harman Kardon AVR 630, MCPC (Silverstone case, IMON, Tosh HDDVD-ROM, E2200@2.5GHz, 4670 ultimate, 3GB, 80GB 2.5" drive, Sweetspot SDI card,Happauge HVR4000, Win 7 Enterprise), Kef XQ5/XQ2C/Q2DS/Q8S, Cyrus aca7.5, PSXR, CD6, Quad 303 x 3, Sky+ 250 SDI | |
| | |
19-11-2006, 11:56 PM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newport, South Wales
Posts: 1,164
Thanks: Gave 112, Got 81 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Lamle 
Good tip about the quality sealant tho... thanks
| Dow Corning products are very good too  | |
| | |
20-11-2006, 9:06 AM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 702
Thanks: Gave 54, Got 126 | Re: removing silicon sealer - how the hell to do it????
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sporran Also is you are putting back use a good quality sealer, unibond do one with a lifetime guarantee for mold. Which is the reason for me removing in the first place, cheap silicone lol.
Got unibond now | I replaced the sealant on my shower tray with the Unibond mold resistant one less that a year ago and there is mold growing on the sealant in one of the corners 
__________________
LG 50PQ3000 Plasma, Yammy A595 Amp,B&W CC3 centre Kef Coda 7 fronts
Mission 73 surrounds, Pioneer DV400 DVD Player (multi-region)
Crystal Xbox (modded with X3 + 250gig HDD)
Virgin Cable & Broadband | |
| | | |
Similar Threads 
Linear Mode
