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Colorseal®-on-a-Reel

Pre-coated, pre-compressed, primary seal for rapid installation into small vertical and horizontal joints

A building joint sealant, Colorseal-On-A-Reel (COR) is a cost-effective version of Sika Emseal’s industry-standard Seismic Colorseal precompressed primary seal shipped on a reel for rapid installation into small joints. It ensures watertightness in vertical or horizontal structural and abutment joints in virtually any substrate. Reel-packaging, in contrast to ‘stick’ packaging:  reduces waste, lowers production costs, makes handling easier, and installation rapid. Colorseal-On-A-Reel is a tensionless solution to small joint sealing and is half the price of similarly sized ‘stick’ Colorseal. Its installed-cost makes COR a cost-effective alternate to ‘caulk and backer rod’. And COR not only seals out water, it seals out air, heat, cold, and sound as well.

Something New From EMSEAL Paintable Version Now Available For Wall Applications: COR is now available with a paintable STP hybrid sealant coating in a standard, neutral “limestone” color ideal for accepting latex and acrylic paints and coatings. Note: in applications where joint movement occurs, unless paint or coating is flexible and can move with the COR, the paint may crack. All instructions of the coating manufacturer in regards to substrate preparation to achieve adhesion acceptable to the user must be followed).

Colorseal-On-A-Reel replaces traditional liquid sealant and backer rod in the typical “caulk and backer rod” configuration that relies for performance on the difficult-to-achieve ‘hour-glass’ shape. In doing so, COR eliminates the primary reason for sealant joint failure – tension – at the bondline and within the cured liquid sealant. COR installs rapidly and eliminates many of the myriad steps required to achieve a neat, functioning joint seal using liquid sealant and backer rod.  No grinding, priming, backer rod insertion, masking, mixing, or tooling.

Colorseal®-on-a-Reel

Pre-coated, pre-compressed, primary seal for rapid installation into small vertical and horizontal joints

Colorseal-On-A-Reel is highly versatile alternative to caulk-and-backerrod in most applications.
Reel-packaging, in contrast to ‘stick’ packaging: reduces waste, lowers production costs, makes handling easier, and installation rapid.
Colorseal-On-A-Reel is ideally suited to sealing joints in precast tilt-up wall panels and achieves the long-met need for a
Colorseal-On-A-Reel closeup in precast tiltup EMSEAL
Precast stadium riser connections are notorious maintenance items where caulk-and-backerrod are used. Colorseal-On-A-Reel is a quick and easy replacement with near permanent results
The finished appearance of Colorseal-On-A-Reel is a clean, slightly convex shape that is free of the tensile stresses that cause liquid sealants to fail
Colorseal-On-A-Reel sidewalk joint sealant retrofit EMSEAL
Colorseal-On-A-Reel has proved suitable for small joints in the horizontal plane as well. Here is a swimming pool perimeter, COR replaces failed liquid sealant.
Highly flexible, COR is easily bent to follow curves while ensuring continuity of seal.
With the right type of windows and where shims are back-set, Colorseal-On-A-Reel makes a lasting perimeter seal while insulating and resisting air pressure differentials
Colorseal-On-A-Reel in Grace Vycor around window perimeters EMSEAL
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Colorseal-On-A-Reel is a highly versatile alternative to caulk-and-backer rod in most applications. UV resistant and durable coating is not in tension. Available in colored silicone options, and a paintable STP coating for wall applications.

Reel-packaging, in contrast to ‘stick’ packaging: reduces waste, lowers production costs, makes handling easier, and installation rapid.

Colorseal-On-A-Reel is ideally suited to sealing joints in precast tilt-up wall panels and achieves the long-met need for a "caulkless" sealing system for precast. Choice of the paintable STP coating makes the joint sealant compatible with chosen wall coating.

Colorseal-On-A-Reel closeup in tilt-up precast walls. The walls of this building were eventually painted to match the silicone and now a paintable option is available that is compatible with latex and acrylic wall coatings.

Precast stadium riser connections are notorious maintenance items where caulk-and-backerrod are used. Colorseal-On-A-Reel is a quick and easy replacement with near permanent results.

The finished appearance of Colorseal-On-A-Reel is a clean, slightly convex shape that is free of the tensile stresses that cause liquid sealants to fail. When used with the new paintable STP sealant coating, the joint can be coated with the urethane deck coating being applied to the concrete.

Colorseal-On-A-Reel makes a quick replacement for failed caulk joints in sidewalks.

Colorseal-On-A-Reel has proved suitable for small joints in the horizontal plane as well. Here is a swimming pool perimeter, COR replaces failed liquid sealant.

Highly flexible, COR is easily bent to follow curves while ensuring continuity of seal.

With the right type of windows and where shims are back-set, Colorseal-On-A-Reel makes a lasting perimeter seal while insulating and resisting air pressure differentials.

Colorseal-On-A-Reel is available in air-barrier compatibile silicones for installation against, in this example, Grace Vycor wrapped into window perimeters.

Features

  • Tensionless, pre-cured primary seal
  • Colored silicone or Paintable STP coating options
  • Cost effective
  • Shipped on 10-foot reels
  • Smooth convex surface
  • Rapid installation–new or retrofit
  • No priming, masking, mixing, tooling or backer rod placing
  • Watertight
  • Airtight
  • Insulates
  • Sound attenuating
  • ABAA Compliant
  • Resists hurricane force wind & water
  • Aesthetically and practically versatile
  • Easily handles changes in plane and direction
  • Conforms to substrate irregularities
  • Easily handles curved joints

Sizes

  • Nominal Sizes: 1/2″, 3/4″, 1″, 1 1/4″ (12, 20, 25, 30 mm)
  • Depth of Seal: 1 3/4″ (45mm)
  • Quantity Per Reel: 10 – LF

Movement

Total 80% (+30% and -50%) of nominal supplied size.

Color

A wide range of standard colors and custom colors are available.

Something New From EMSEAL Now also available in a paintable STP sealant coating in a single neutral “limestone” color ideal for accepting latex and acrylic paints and coatings.
Note: in applications where joint movement occurs, unless paint or coating is flexible and can move with the COR, the paint may crack. All instructions of the coating manufacturer in regards to substrate preparation to achieve adhesion acceptable to the user must be followed).

Uses

Alternative to caulk and backer rod in smaller control joints and building component joints in:

  • Tilt-up walls
  • Precast concrete
  • CMU
  • Curtainwall
  • Masonry
  • Metal Panel
  • Natural Stone
  • Window perimeters
  • Shelf angles
  • Sidewalks
  • Driveways
  • Residential garage to driveway thresholds
  • Pool copings, etc.

Features Explained

Watertight—the tensionless coating is installed just below the substrate surface. This ensures watertightness is achieved at the face of the joint.

Non-Invasive Anchoring—there are no hard metal-to-concrete connections in the system.

Aesthetics & Versatility—Silicone coating available in numerous colors or paintable STP coating available in standard, neutral “limestone” color.

Composition

  • Produced by infusing a cellular foam base material with a hydrophobic, microsphere-modified acrylic impregnation, and coating the surface with a high-performance silicone to suit the application.
  • The external facing is factory applied to the foam at a width greater than maximum joint extension and is cured before final compression.
  • Coating application and curing takes place in a temperature and humidity-controlled factory environment. This ensures, in contrast to field applied tube sealant and backer rod installations, that no movement takes place during curing that can cause deformation or stresses in the sealant material.
  • The material is precompressed to less than the joint size for easy insertion.
  • When compressed, a bellows is created in the coating. As joint movement occurs the bellows simply folds and unfolds free of tension on the bond line, and virtually free of tensile stresses in the silicone material.
  • The foam provides a resilient backing to the precured coating, making the it capable of resisting reasonable transient point loads.

Design Considerations

  • Substrates must be parallel, plumb, have sufficient clear depth to receive the material specified, and be capable of resisting approx. 2.5 psi backpressure from the foam.
  • Fuel Resistance: Silicone sealant is not degraded by contact with fuel. Some swelling of the material will normally occur, but it will return to its original shape upon evaporation of the fuel.

Maintenance

  • As with any construction product, the useful life of the material can be maximized with routine inspection and repair if required.
  • Clearing of surface debris and inspection will reveal any damage to the product or adjacent substrates that might affect building performance.
  • EMSEAL precompressed sealants are easily repaired–requiring only damaged sections to be removed and reinstalled–not the entire length of the joint as is typical of extruded-seal systems.

Availability and Price

  • Available for shipment internationally.
  • Prices are available from local distributors or representatives. For more information, contact EMSEAL.
  • The product range is continually being updated, and accordingly EMSEAL® reserves the right to modify or withdraw any product without prior notice.

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