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Prepare Caulk Tube and Add Paint

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Can Caulking Be Tinted? How to Prep Exact Color Caulking

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Latex Paint (Valspar Duramax)
  • Sashco Exact Color Tintable Caulk
  • Sharp Knife (or 2-Edge 5-in-1 Knife)
  • Syringe

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so what's your package first off we're going to start off we've got a cap you don't want to lose that cap that's what's going to seal the lid after you put in your color and what you're going to be doing is just using whatever paint that you're going to be using to tint your caulk to a latex paint you don't want an oil-based product it's got to be water-based I'm going to be my first color I'll maybe matching it to this color right here I've got a hardener you'll want to set this aside this is going to be the second step after you put in your paint I've got a lid right here that goes you know on after everything is added to it I've got a syringe that I'm going to be pulling up my paint with and adding it into my tube of caulking right here so I'm going to set everything aside don't lose any of this stuff now we're going to begin the process of mixing this stuff once again I've never done this before so we're going to see how simple and easy this is to do so professional painters do it yourselfers anybody can do this here we go first thing you want to do is we're going to cut the tip off right here a good little pointer you don't want to mess with your thread so don't cut it off so low that you take some of your threads with it because your cap has got a thread on there so I'm going to look at that be just above my threads make sure you have a nice sharp knife and cut it right off just like that it was very simple easy to do that lead this lid actually just threads them in there after I'm done applying my color in I'm going to just tap that down a little bit make sure my product is settled down set that down now I'm going to draw up my product my paint product now there's a lot of colorant added to this typically what you want to do is add 30 millimeter milliliters right here stay right there on the bottom I'd add a full syringe now if you're using a paint product that has a lot of color in it like your Reds dark greens and stuff the viscosity is going to be a little bit thinner so you probably want to add a little bit less product I'd recommend probably adding 25 milliliters if you've got a really thin product you can actually add stain to this and match stains or even a metallic finishes if you're going to be using a stain you're only going to be using uh 15 half 10 to 15 milliliters if you're using a stain because it's very very thin very very watery but we're using a paint I'm going to open up this paint and then we're going to add our product so we're…

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