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Category: Concrete Product: All site mixed or delivered concrete
Temperature Limitations: Use above +2 C (+35 F)
Rain Limitations: No rain until surface is firm -- several hours
Wind Limitations: n/a
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Category: Roofing Product: Asphalt & Gravel flat roofing
Temperature Limitations: Roofing materials flow best above +10 C (+50 F) -- emergency repairs can be made down to -10 C (+14 F)
Rain Limitatio...
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Category: Roofing Product: Elastomeric Sheet Membranes
Temperature Limitations: Material and workmen are most flexible above +10 C (+50 F) -- emergency repairs can be made down to -10 C (+14 F)
Rain Lim...
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Category: Concrete Product: Bituminous foundation moisture control coating
Temperature Limitations: Water based products must be used above freezing -- Solvent based materials minimum -17 C (+1 F)
Rain L...
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Category: Concrete Product: Elastomeric Liquid Waterproofing Coatings
Temperature Limitations: Use above +10 C (+50 F) and below +32 C (+90 F)
Rain Limitations: No rain for 24 hours
Wind Limitations: ...
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Category: Sealants (Caulking) Product: Polyurethane Caulking / Sealant
Temperature Limitations: Above + 5 C (+40 F)
Rain Limitations: No rain for 1 hour
Wind Limitations: n/a
Humidity Limitations: Mis...
Gates that swing out towards the street present a serious problem for latches. If you mount the latch on the gate itself, it will not work unless you install it on the street side. Out on that side it is simply not secure. If you mount it on the fence, then the shaft that catches the gate is a...
Almost all of us own at least two outdoor plastic lawn chairs, more properly called resin chairs, if not a whole dining set. Most of us watch them get dirtier and dirtier every year, until we finally scrap them for something cleaner. Sitting out in the weather tends to somehow grind them int...
Connect to your favourite weather forecaster and look for the following conditions:
Category: Roofing Product: Plastic Cement / cold applied Roof Patch
Temperature Limitations: Varies by product: Use above -5 C (+23 F) to above freezing
Rain Limitations: Varies by product: dry to underw...
Joanne writes from Bois de Silion in Quebec. She has twice cleaned all the paint off an indoor metal railing, repainted with a primer and a finish coat, and both times, chunks flake off -- sometimes exposing the metal, sometimes exposing the primer. She is not a novice at painting and can't figur...
