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Guy at the Ace in Boise sold me a $6 tube of silicone for my tub, and that 'fill it then wait 24 hours' rule he gave me was the real deal
I laughed when he said don't touch it for a full day, but my first two caulk jobs that I smoothed right away both peeled within a month, and this one is still sealed after 8 months, so has anyone else had silicone fail because they couldn't keep their hands off it?
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loganm529h ago
My buddy Dave in Nampa did the same thing last spring, smeared a whole tube of DAP around his shower base and kept running his finger over it every few hours because he thought it looked messy. Three weeks later the whole edge pulled away from the tile when he leaned on it, water got behind there and he had to rip it all out. The guy at the hardware store told him the same thing, leave it alone, because the skin forms fast but the cure underneath takes a full day. Dave redid it in July and just left the house for the afternoon, and that one has been fine ever since.
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