Sanding Baseboards for Smoothness

top of that alright McKenna so we've got everything masked off but there's one more step to the process did you learn anything masking at all alright so you learned how to mask that's good so you're doing a great job but now the baseboards themselves there's some prep that needs to be done because the original painters that in the new construction process didn't do a very good job there's a lot of dust and debris that was kicked up on the baseboards when they sprayed the walls most of the walls and baseboards are all the same color painted with the same paint when they sprayed the walls they didn't vacuum very good and it kicked up a lot of dirt on the baseboards so they're very rough so we're gonna sand the baseboards and then the tops of them were caught very well so we're gonna wreck off them so they have a nice good transition on the top of the baseboards we're gonna be doing some sanding we have a sander right here that has a little dust bag on it so we're not treating a whole lot of dust but well after we're done sanding we'll just shop back on the tops of the the masking that way we don't kick any dust stuff that we created by sanding but the corners weren't sanded very well so we're gonna sand them if you don't have access to a sander we can just use a sanding block we use these quite often this is a medium sanding sponge so it's a squishy sanding sponge so we're gonna begin doing the sanding first because if we'd caught first in the talking's wet we might mess up our caulking you got a caulking gun right here so let me show you how to set up your caulking gun the caulking gun right here has a little blade in it right here if you can see when I squeeze the trigger that's what cuts the caulking tube open and so I'm gonna cut my tube open and I want it to be cut at a 45 degree angle and so I'm going to set my tube and then cut it at a 45 degree angle and I just want a little small hole I don't want to stick to much of the tube in there and gonna cut it at a 45 degree angle and you can see that's a small hole it's ready to go it does have a thing some like silicone caulking you have to perforate the inside of the tube first but this is latex caulking you don't have to I'm gonna set it in there I want my 45-degree angle facing down set in and it's ready to go to caulk but we'll do the sanding process first and then we'll begin caulking I use when I talk I use a sponge and you can feel it's wet the sponge is wet so when you're wiping your excess…