What should I use for my Kitchen windowsill?

[oilman]

Our kitchen windowsill doesn't get wet, but then we have mastered this "living in a house" thing

 

[noseall]

Surely I've got to seal round the edges, to stop water going down the gap between the board and the wall / window frame?
My worktops are oak, and I'm fitting glass splashbacks, I can't just leave a gap between the glass and the wood can I?
It's in the kitchen so surfaces are going to get wet.

use an oil based mastic sealant.

 

[noseall]

Our kitchen windowsill doesn't get wet, but then we have mastered this "living in a house" thing

we have children that are far too young to have mastered anything, let alone keeping window boards dry. our house is 'lived in'.

 

[oilman]

We taught our children. It IS possible. I don't recall watering the kitchen window sill when I was young either. Is "our house is lived in" some sort of euphemism?

Edit: corrected quote from post.

 

[noseall]

"living in a house" thing

you tell me.

 

[Hooo]

I've obviously still got a lot to learn about this "living in a house thing"
I'm forever getting water on my kitchen worktops.
I think I'll start another thread on worktop sealing....

 

[oilman]

IIRC the post was about window sills.

 

[noseall]

there are a heck of a lot of kitchen windows out there with a sink directly beneath.

it would be foolish and very short sighted to assume a window board in this location will remain dry. any horizontal surface close to a window can be subject to moisture.

 

[Hooo]

noseall

Exactly, my window sill is 150mm above the sink. It gets wet sometimes.

 

[Eccles]

It was done before I moved in but our kitchen window cill is tiled, I guess with MDF sitting underneath.

 

[big-all]

Blimey not sure whats added to a thread from 2008 ??