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Caulking A Perfect Bead. Wet Caulking Trim To Windows.

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Caulking Gun
  • Caulking Sponge
  • Pliers or Utility Knife
  • Lukewarm Water N/A

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just like that and I've got I've got to just continue working this can I get it just the way I want it so this is what it's going to look like here I'm going to get now I can just take my caulking tube I want to make sure my angle is going to be you know wherever my 45 degree angles will lay flat on that Gap so if I got to turn my caulking tube to whatever Direction I can get that to be flat and I'm going to turn it that direction I'm going to begin laying out my bead now what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn around go the opposite direction so you can actually see it on this direction too from the camera so I'm laying it out watching that as it fills this crack watching that I'm not putting too much I'm watching that I'm making sure it's filling that whole Gap not going too fast I can stop continue where I was right there so that's what my bead looks like I'm gonna get back I'm gonna make sure my finger my tooling finger is really wet and begin where I left off let's get if you press too hard you're not going to have a super nice bead and that's going to pull too much out if you don't press enough it's not going to get a good bond to both edges once again this caulking method Spanish caulking you just have to be patient just takes time if you want it to look really really good so I do have a situation here were I need to get a little extra on here to fill up kind of some bumps right there so I just added a little bit more wet my finger I'm going to try to get that to smooth out a bump that was there now I just smooth that out feather it out build it in just a little bit more we'll get back up here to my corner before it dries it starts to dry too much it's going to start to coagulate and your your caulking won't be toolable so I'm going to take clean my sponge and get a little bit of caulking on here because I don't want anything anything on my hands anything on my hands is going to make it so I don't get a smooth bead what I like to say is like with the new guys if they start getting caulking all over the hands it's going to get on the ends of your fingers and stuff and what we call it is caulking boogers and it's gonna cause your finger pad to not be smooth and not give you a good caulking bead another tip is this has always got to be clean your 45 degree angle always always got to be clean every now and then if you're caulking a lot you'll start to get a little tag in on the end of your caulking tube if you're caulking on a rough surface you get…

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