----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Rushton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [canals-list] chimney sealant


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Susan Burchett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:46 PM
> Subject: [canals-list] chimney sealant
>
>
>> Our seal between the collar and the top of the boat keeps cracking. Are 
>> we
>> using the wrong sort of mastic?

> I have had a similar problem with a leaking roof collar. The seal looked
> reasonable but was still leaking. Last week I poured a few drops of
> Owatrol Oil around the collar and it has now stopped leaking - even during
> all this very heavy rain. I have just tried the same on a leaking hopper 
> window.
> I'll let you know the result.

That sounds a good idea. We used to have a lot of trouble with the chimney 
collar on Copperkins, until it dawned that the join beween the flue pipe and 
collar should really be a sliding joint, to cope with the expansion and 
contraction of the flue. When that joint was re-done with glass fibre 
chimney sealing tape, and the old sealant was removed, it stopped pushing 
the collar off the roof.
-- 
Iain




 
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