Durability of Building Sealants
Beech, J C / Wolf, A T
All buildings sealants once installed are exposed to environmental degradation factors which affect their performance over time and ultimately cause them to fail. Replacing failed sealant joints is time consuming and can be expensive, representing a substantial proportion of the overall building maintenance costs. Specifiers therefore increasingly need to know the predicted service life of a sealant in order to estimate the overall cost associ...