I can't believe it's not nails

MichaelJA · Post by **MichaelJA** » Fri Jun 21, 2024 7:49 pm

Hello

I need to install a metal splashback behind the gas hob, onto a plasterboard wall. Watching videos on YouTube, diy'ers explain you should use something along the lines of a silicon sealant onto the back of the splashback before fitting.

See the attached 3 photos, I have an old tube of 'I can't believe it's not nails' which has never been opened, however it is way past its expired date of 2012.

Can anyone advise if I opened it up, and the content was still soft and pliable, would it still be usable even though it is very old?

Trying to save money and not go out and buy another tube of something.

Thank you
Michael

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Fri Jun 21, 2024 8:14 pm

Chuck it. Get silicone, it will stick it on better, it's cheap enough at Screwfix

DWD

Gadget · Post by **Gadget** » Fri Jun 21, 2024 8:52 pm

Like dw says, dump it, it'll be knackered.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sat Jun 22, 2024 12:06 am

simple test press the centre off the tube and iff you cant compress at least 12mm[you wont] its solid
even iff you can its outside the usual 12-18 months from manufacture

fin · Post by **fin** » Sat Jun 22, 2024 10:58 am

yes just bin it. even if its still soft it wont work.

id use something decent like sticks like or stixall aswell. or even one of those hybridy super duper things.... like ct1 or ob1 i think is an equivalent.

that solvent free stuff is utter rubbish in my experience of it in the trade

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sat Jun 22, 2024 2:02 pm

i find the water based is fine but rather than a day or so to set it can take a week or more
now whether its 100% as good or just 40% i dont know :dunno:

fin · Post by **fin** » Sat Jun 22, 2024 4:09 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3lC82wynAg

worth a watch

i dont rate the cheaper gripfil water based stuff at all. if it was say a cheap job for a landlord or whatever and he wants to trim costs everywhewre then id use it but if he whinged 6 months later that they had come loose he would be getting told why.

MichaelJA · Post by **MichaelJA** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 6:21 pm

Thank you to all for your advice. I binned it and used a No-Nonsense white silicone and it worked fine - thank you

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 6:24 pm

Thanks for the update, I am glad you got it done

DWD

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Jul 05, 2024 4:30 pm

I remember on a job once the storeman gave us a case of brown silicon mastic. I gave one to the apprentice to use and he came back saying he'd broken the mastic gun. He'd squeezed and squeezed and broken the handle. I suspected he hadn't cut the end off the tube but no that wasn't the case. The mastic had gone off. I cut off the whole top of the tube and slit it down the side and ended up with a lovely rubber truncheon although of course being builders other ideas were suggested. Pretty much the whole case had gone off like that...

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Fri Jul 05, 2024 4:59 pm

DWD