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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan yall help me with this? What is the name of the stuff, you'd get it where you buy things for home improvement, it's
a foam and you spray it. Then it gets hard. You can use it to fill up holes in your wall or wherever.
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Can yall help me with this? What is the name of the stuff, you'd get it where you buy things for home improvement, it's (Original Post)
raccoon
Nov 20
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UpInArms
(53,806 posts)1. It's blow foam
You get it at hardware store, but my local dollar general store also sells it
UpInArms
(53,806 posts)5. It looks like this
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(53,806 posts)6. They make for small and big gaps
Hope it works for you
MarineCombatEngineer
(17,174 posts)3. LOCTITE,

or Great Stuff,

CousinIT
(12,061 posts)4. Great Stuff. n/t
NBachers
(19,081 posts)7. I work in a hardware store. We just call it Spray Foam. All the above posts are correct. Good luck!
lavoosh99
(35 posts)8. Be Careful,
and read the directions to get the right kind. Some of those urethane foams expand so much that you can blow out drywall, warp door jambs, and bend window frames.
durablend
(8,803 posts)9. And in most cases
You need to use up the entire can at once or else it hardens in the sprayer
Kid Berwyn
(22,446 posts)10. Oxygen deprivation hazard
Make sure fresh air can still get in house. Carbon Monoxide builds up without outside air.
Hotler
(13,675 posts)11. Great Stuff, Window & Door Seal. There aqre tow types. Low expansion and High expansion.
Use low expansion for door and windows. The high expansion can put too much pressure on stuff that slide and swing.