what do you use to seal cracks between deck boards

nikon5400 · Jul 27, 2019

Hi there.
What should I utilize to fill the gaps ?

I used Vulkem 45 for the gap between coping and deck, it worked well, simply a few years back I was told Vulkem no longer recommends information technology (or any of their products) for the pool (don't recollect where I heard that from, either the pool company I bought it from or the Vulkem manufacturer).
I used Tile & Plaster Repair for the gap between coping and tile (recommended by local pool shop), but it'southward smashing. I remember silicone or polyurethane caulk should be used there. No?

what near coping cracks ?

I used AccuColor unsanded grout to smooth it out and it worked OK, lasted a few years only I wonder if I should utilize something meliorate.

Thanks

JaySav

I'thousand curious about this as well. My grout betwixt my coping and pool wall is separated as well, programme on fully removing it and re grouting it at some bespeak.

ajw22

Depends on the pattern of your coping. Do yous have cantilevered coping? How does the deck join with the coping?

Mail some pics of your state of affairs.

JaySav

IDK if that one pic is proficient enough but these were some pics of some staining/calcium scaling I posted in another topic. The first pic of the group shows the rounded brick coping, if you wait closely you can encounter some grout missing completely and where its withal present it has separated from the coping.

nikon5400 · Aug 17, 2019

So, what production should be used to fill the gap between the coping the tile?

I tried grout, information technology didn't concluding long. Maybe considering deck is moving it pulls cooping with information technology?
I think silicone production should be used. Trying to figure out which kind.

cheers

ajw22

Don't use silicone for gaps around the pool. It will ruin the surface for e'er using annihilation else.

Use a flexible mastic similar Deck-O-Seal.

nikon5400

Don't use silicone for gaps around the pool. It will ruin the surface for always using anything else.
Use a flexible mastic like Deck-O-Seal.

I have ii gaps to take care of -

between coping and deck. That'due south the i where Deck-O-Seal should work (used vulkem 45 before)
between tile and coping. That's the 1 I'd call back silicone type should exist used.

nikon5400 · Aug 17, 2019

link
My deck been moving for a few years, but skimmer started cracking this season.
I don't know how skimmer is constructed, but I'm worried it tin crack downwards further where the water is and crack pipage or elbow

Should I or can I practise anything to prevent information technology from corking down further?

Thanks

ajw22

I don't remember you ever answered postal service #three.

One identify should take Deck-O-Seal. The other mortar or grout. Silicone should non be used. .

ajw22

Post some pics of the skimmer, cracks, and the deck area.

Without seeing it you probably demand to stabilize the deck. Perhaps you lot can chip away a gap effectually the skimmer and then the deck does not press on it.

nikon5400 · Aug 17, 2019

Post some pics of the skimmer, cracks, and the deck area.
Without seeing it you probably need to stabilize the deck. Maybe you tin can chip abroad a gap effectually the skimmer and so the deck does not printing on it.

here's the link (have it in the op, first line)
thanks

nikon5400

I don't think you ever answered mail service #three.
1 place should have Deck-O-Seal. The other mortar or grout. Silicone should not be used. .

Sorry, i thought your reply in #three wasn't addressed to me

I don't post pictures, I post links. links are in the op.
thanks.

ajw22

I think yous need to dig down to remove pressure on the skimmer from the deck and ground.

nikon5400 · Aug 18, 2019

I recall you lot need to dig downwardly to remove pressure on the skimmer from the deck and ground.

it looks like a relatively small triangular concrete piece needs to be removed. I added 2 more pictures with arrows to the original link
Is there any way to remove the plastic band(the ane attached to the concrete )

thanks!

ajw22

Yup, that triangle piece of deck you have the arrow pointing to is pressing on the skimmer. While you can see a gap between the deck and tke skimmer on the reverse side. With your deck moving none of information technology should be tight against the skimmer.

You lot need to create a gap around the skimmer so make full it in with a flexible mastic like Deck-O-Seal.

nikon5400

Yup, that triangle piece of deck you lot accept the pointer pointing to is pressing on the skimmer. While you can see a gap between the deck and tke skimmer on the contrary side. With your deck moving none of it should be tight against the skimmer.
You need to create a gap around the skimmer and and so make full it in with a flexible mastic like Deck-O-Seal.

Are y'all saying I may need to remove more than just that triangle piece?
Is there whatever manner to remove the plastic ring around the skimmer and somehow remove what's pressing the skimmer without removing the actual triangle slice? If so, how?

I don't remember I can practise it myself, unless it'south very like shooting fish in a barrel... how much this work should cost? how many hours should information technology take?

cheers.

ajw22

I can't judge from pictures how tight things are, what force per unit area at that place is, and what it is going to accept or cost.

Information technology is the type of problem y'all need to outset into and see what you observe.

@jimmythegreek what do y'all think?

nikon5400

...The other mortar or grout. Silicone should non be used. .

merely it's breaking, it won't last long. deck is moving a lot, it seems like more now than 5-x years agone. coping is cracking everywhere. That's why I was thinking of something flexible, like polyurethane caulk or silicone, hoping information technology'd last a picayune longer.

I used "Tile and Plaster repair" I have on the pic to fill up the gap between tile and coping. It didn't last long

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