Removing Butyl Tape From Roof

Hair dryer to warm up and rolled it off.

Removing butyl tape from roof.

Mix hot water with a squirt of liquid dish soap. Step 2 cover the remaining adhesive with adhesive remover or paint thinner such as toulene. Sometimes can warm up the sticky stuff and roll push with fingertips kinda hard on the fingers depends on how sticky the original butyl tape is. Not all new dicor lap sealant products work with every roof cleaner or sealant removal.

Removing butyl tape from ports of c 27 sailboat. Continue to lift up on the tape with the putty knife razor blade or scraper until all of the tape is loose so you can remove it. One such brand is epdm roof cleaner. Scrap up the surface tape with a putty knife.

Must the surface be dust free and clean. One of the things about removing old sealant is the type of sealant cleaner you use. The butyl tape is not tape for this application it comes in a pump can and is applied much like caulk in a caulking gun but can reach into much smaller recesses and is pumped into and behind the rubber channel edges both on the glass and body sides. Soak a rag or cloth in the water and then set the cloth on the tape to saturate tape that becomes stuck and you cannot remove.

I use a very thin blade metal scraper purchased from lowe s round the corner on the scraper to about a 1 8 radius bend the blade about 1 from the end to about a 10 deg. You position the end of the roll over the join that you intend sealing and roll the tape off to your required length. Lay the end of the scraper flat against the epdm rubber roof and proceed to work the handle back and forth. Then remove the siliconised paper and gently manoeuvre the butyl tape into position.

Yup this is what i did.