What adhesives can be used with EPDM?

Which industrial adhesive can be used to bond EPDM rubber? Cyanoacrylate adhesive is practically the only choice if you are looking for a high strength bond. Permabond recommends its 105 grade cyanoacrylate for this troublesome substrate.

What is EPDM cover tape used for?

Tremco EPDM Cover Tape is designed to cover, protect, and seal mechanical fastening bars, membrane fasteners, core sample repair patches, membrane repairs, and seam overlays in all EPDM roofing systems.

How do you seal a seam on a flat roof?

Remove asphalt patches and old silicone caulking material, using a scraper. Re-fill the patches and seams with a generous bead of roofer’s caulk. Apply self-adhesive, butyl roofing tape to every seam or tear that appears too large to caulk.

How do I bond EPDM?

  1. Overlap the two rubber membranes by 75mm (3inches)
  2. Mark Overlap on Bottom Sheet.
  3. Use Rubber Primer on rubber membrane.
  4. Apply Rubber Primer.
  5. Apply Primer to Top Sheet.
  6. Ensure Primer is Touch Dry.
  7. Apply Splice Tape To Bottom Sheets.
  8. Cut Splice Tape and Fold In To Upstand.

How do you seal a flat roof seam?

What is EPDM tape for roofing?

EPDM or rubber roof seam tape, available in white and black, and in several widths (typically 3″, 4″ or 6″), is used at roof edges, over edge flashing, and to provide an extra seal or a repair seal over roofing membrane seams, splits, or damaged spots.

What is roofkit seam tape?

RoofKit Rubber Roofing Seam Tape is a butyl tape used to splice two layers of RoofKit rubber roofing membrane into a watertight seam. – sold at Menards Building supply stores. $40. for 3″ x 50′ roll, or under $90. for a 5″ x 50′ roll.

Can You Spray EPDM adhesive on roofing?

Apply Adhesive: Mask off the seam area to the width of your rubber patch strip so that your adhesive spray won’t gum up the rest of the roof surface. For small jobs a can of spray EPDM adhesive is fine but over-spray is a mess.

How do you repair an open seam on a rubber roof?

Instead it’s necessary to clean and seal the seam using a surface-applied strip of repair material. At an area of open or leaky seam or a cut split or damaged area on a rubber roof, when the damage is sufficiently limited in scope that a surface repair is all that’s needed, you can either