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Capping Seal Jargon Buster
Capping Seal Jargon Buster
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Definition:
CAPPING SEAL:
- Flexible PVC capping seals are used to finish the top of a resilient floor covering where it has been coved up the wall.
- Capping seals are usually used in conjunction with a cove former.
(GBE BRM ’13)
Relevance to Sustainable Construction:
Potential defects:
- Seamlessly joined/bonded coved skirtings are added to resilient floor coverings like PVC/Vinyl, rubber to make watertight floors to showers and wet rooms and easy-clean hygienic floors in hospitals.
- The use of high phthalate content as plasticising polymers in PVC coved skirtings, formers and cappings and now incompatible adhesives has lead to polymer migration, shrinkage and adhesive failures resulting in gaps that are no longer bridgeable by the shrunk coving and non longer repairable with the surfaces coated in plasticised adhesive.
- In Europe the use of coved skirtings in hospitals was abandoned some time ago.
(GBE BRM ’11-’13)
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
30th October 2013 – 6th November 2018
Capping Seal Jargon Buster
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
30th October 2013 – 6th November 2018
Capping Seal Jargon Buster
See also:
GBE JARGON BUSTER
- Asthma
- Capping Seal (this page)
- Condensation
- Cornice
- Cove
- Coved Skirting
- Cove Former
- Mould
- Moulding
- Phthalates
- Plasticisers
- Polymer migration
- Skirting
- Thermal bypass
- Thermal flanking
- Toxicity
GBE DEFECTS
GBE SOLUTIONS
GBE CPD
GBE CHECKLIST
GBE LINKS
- FSP Flooring Sustainability Partnership
- CFA Contract Flooring Association
- CFJ Contract Flooring Journal
GBE PROJECTS
GBE CALCULATOR
- GBE have an ambition to create a flooring waste calculator
- A grant application with Alan Best & FSP has been submitted to DEFRA September 2013
GBS GREEN BUILDING SPECIFICATION
- Robust Specification Clause
- Robust Specification Work Section
- M50 Gemini Risk Free Cap & Coving
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
30th October 2013 – 6th November 2018
