Liquid Nails cure time? - Cold & Damp :(

[yossarian19]

The garage isn't heated yet (no insulation. It's on the list) so it's a bit chilly / damp in there.
The laminated workbench top, which I'd left to dry for two days, failed on one seam as I manhandled it onto the frame. The glue was still wet. I applied some more glue & re-clamped it.
Given 40-50 degrees & rainy over the next week, when can I expect this thing to be cured?
Lamination is green Doug Fir (shoulda bought kiln dried)

 

[FriendOfYours]

Should have used PL Premium, much better product. Seriously, can't stress this enough. Big enough difference I'd say pull it up and reapply

I'd leave it for a couple days

 

[matt_i]

I personally wouldn't use construction adhesive without it being backed up by some sort of metal fastener (screws/nails). It is helpful in enhancing the mechanical fastener pattern, but it can't replace it. If a person built a house with construction adhesive only, they would die inside it as it collapsed.

 

[wssix99]

when can I expect this thing to be cured?

In the spring when the temps get up to the cure temperature listed on the tube. Until that happens, the solvents won't escape. As mentioned above, mechanical fasteners will hold things together until the glue can do its job.

 

[Cyberbear]

My experience with "liquid nails" is nil as I've always regarded the product as something for holding cheap paneling to the wall. Any adhesive used on wet lumber will usually fail, but you know that. All adhesives have a working temperature that should be observed for best results. You may want to try a source of warm dry heat to speed the process, but accomplishing such a task is difficult this time of year.

 

[gc427]

Liquid Nails is crappy. Needs air in order to cure.

PL Premium is the only product to use for what you are doing!

 

[yossarian19]

Well, the bench top made it onto the frame and the liquid nails hasn't failed again. I think it was three or four nights this time. I wind up doing this again, I'll buy some PL. Mean time the LN is definitely working, just slowly

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[four.cycle]

re: "Liquid Nails is crappy"

^ O RLY?

You need to get the right flavor of "Liquid Nails". they make a couple dozen different kinds.
I used some to glue together wet dirty bricks to other wet dirty bricks in the pouring down rain on an outdoor "planter" box thing in front of my mother's house a couple years ago. I got up and jumped up and down on it and kicked the bricks that I'd glued to make sure they were stable. Worked great!

It ain't just for gluing down MDF panels, ya know.

 

[rcktsled]

Sikkens makes some adhesives in their Sikaflex line that will adhere wet wood to wet wood underwater for marine repairs. It is not something you will use often but its good to know it can be done if necessary. Needlees to say it ain't cheap!

 

[four.cycle]

^ "Liquid Nails" makes the same stuff! I called and talked to a guy up at McLendons Hardware - the place I got the "brick" adhesive from - and he told me about that stuff. I thought he was joking until I got up there and started reading the labels on various tubes.
Seriously - they had about 25 different kinds of "Liquid Nails" in caulking tubes.