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be used to bond hardwood foors to con- crete decks. Te product, which features the company's proprietary A XIOS Tri-Linking Polymer Technology, is designed to be easier to apply than traditional urethane adhesives. It also incorporates 1 percent recycled rub- ber material to provide sound abatement the company says typically outperforms ¼-in.- thick cork underlayment. Plus, the product's moisture control ability eliminates the need for epoxy coatings. As they have with sealants, manufacturers have worked to produce adhesives capable of working with multiple substrate materi- als. Tese include Liquid Nails' new Fuze It All Surface construction adhesive, which the company says will bond almost anything to anything else — with the exceptions of poly- ethylene and polypropylene. PVC and other advanced building mate- rials. He says new polyurethane products can ofer bond strength of up to fve times that of older oferings. Additionally, notes Scott Banda, mar- keting director for Bostik, reducing noise transmission is becoming a more frequent customer goal. "More and more work is going on in high-density residential [construction] and remodeling — we're seeing tons of work in cities with that," he says, adding such projects often come with requirements for sound control, especially between foors in multifoor construction. "Our opportunity is to integrate sound dampening material into our adhesives." Bostik has developed UltraSet SingleStep2 adhesive for such applications, which can BOSTIK sees reducing noise transmission as a market opportunity, so its UltraSet SingleStep2 adhesive incorporates 1 percent recycled rubber material to provide sound abatement. Circle 12 on inquiry card "It's more of a universal adhesive that will work on pretty much anything," Stypczynski says. "I think the trend in the marketplace is to make it simpler — I can just grab this, and of I go." DO YOUR HOMEWORK While simplifcation might well be the leading market trend, it's not a goal that has yet been achieved within the category of sealants, caulks and adhesives. So, while a growing number of these products might be increasingly versatile in terms of applica- tion-condition requirements and compatible substrates, there remains enough vari- ation among today's oferings to still raise some confusion among contrac- tors scanning the shelves of big box stores or other suppliers. To ensure your choice is the right one for the project at hand, Majka from OSI urges contractors to take an extra minute of time to check a product's technical data sheet (TDS) be- fore hitting the checkout lane. He uses the example of sealants to explain his reasoning with this advice: While all external sealants might fall un- der a single ASTM standard, C920, that standard covers a broad range of performance capabilities. "If you were able to look at the TDS [for difering products], you would fnd large difer- ences between two C920 seal- ants," he says, noting adhesive strength as one characteristic that can vary widely between products that all have earned ASTM C920 compliance. Not checking this kind of actual performance data could lead contractors to focus too heavily on cost in their purchase de- cisions. "If you apply that $3 tube sealant, there's probably a good chance that seal is going to break down faster." | LIQUID NAILS developed its Fuze It All Surface construction adhesive to work with multiple substrate materials. Circle 13 on inquiry card QualifiedRemodeler.com QR April 2016 77