Cabinet Base Sealants – Highways Agency & TfL Approved Specification (Filoform 205882)

Cabinet Base Sealants – Highways Agency & TfL Approved Specification (Filoform 205882)

Sealing Cabinets

Filofom cabinet base sealant is black in colour and used to seal the base of street cabinets and feeder pillars.

Suitable for use in LV distribution cabinets, public lighting cabinets, cabinets for traffic control and outdoor transformer station installations.

Filoform’s cabinet base sealants and duct sealing system has been approved for use on the Highways & TFL sites (Filoform 205882) and is suitable to use in their network.

Cabinet base sealent is also availaible in a clear opaque colour which is used if a re-enterable seal is required.

Cabinet base sealant PC5882 is a well established product within the UK and has been used for many years by various major companies:

Good flow
Self levelling characteristics
Good adhesion
Non-tacky surface
Low odour sealant
Excellent drilling properties
Temperature range 25ºC – 120ºC

The easy to use 940ml twin-pack of cabinet base sealant ensures:

Less sealant wastage, less packaging, easy shipping
Easy mixing avoiding direct contact with the resin
Excellent quality of the resin due to optimal mixing and manageability
Full traceability due to batch coding

Filoform 205882

Cabinet Base Sealants – Black

Features

Filoform Sealant 205882
Product Name: Cabinet Base Sealant – Black – 940ml
Colour: Black
Content: 9400ml
Available in 2 component mixing bags or 5L buckets
Prevents ingress of moisture, pests and the instrusion of weeds, roots and plants
Improves the climate inside the street cabinets and transformer stations
Decrease interference of the equipment
Extends the life of the components
Quick and easy to apply
Good flow properties
Self levelling characteristics
Good adhesion
Smooth and non tacky surface

2 component sealant used to seal the base of street cabinets

Cabinet Base Sealant Specification

Properties	Unit	Value
Potlife (process time) 5°C	minutes	30
Potlife (process time) 23°C	minutes	10
Potlife (process time) 35°C	minutes	7
Gel-time	minutes	23
Viscosity (mixture) 25°C	Pa.s	ca. 3
Density	g / cm³	1.4
Hardness	Shore D	52
Tensile strength	N / mm²	4
Water absorption (30d/23°C)	%	< 1.0
Weight loss 28d/120°C	%	0.8
Surface structure cured under water		no bubbles

Tfl Approved Cabinet Base Sealants

Further Information

Installation instructions
Dry and clean the interior walls of the cabinet seal eventual holes and openings in the walls of the cabinet
Add dried kiln sand to the bottom of the cabinet and make sure this is levelled
Mix the 2 component base sealant and pour this evenly over the bottom
If necessary use several packages until the desired thickness is obtained