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Prepare caulking tools & wet sponge

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Caulking A Perfect Bead. Wet Caulking Trim To Windows.

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • 2-gallon bucket
  • Drop cloth
  • ETS 2000 Professional Caulking Gun
  • Open-cell sponge (e.g
  • Lukewarm water

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going to be using what I call a sponge caulking map that I use a hanger sponge just like there's a caulking sponge and this is what it looks like just like this it's about a six inch sponge it's an open cell sponge nice and smooth it's great for keeping your hands wet and for tooling and getting a perfect caulking bead I'm going to be caulking with my caulking gun right here this is an ETS 2000 caulking gun It's a cotton gun I like and um got my tower sealants and installed so this is a sponge caulking method and it's keeping your sponge wet all the time and keeping your hands wet all the time so you can tool your Caulking and what I mean by tooling it that's what you're I'm using my fingers there's a lot of tools out there that you can use to um you know apply a caulking bead without using your hands but your hands have nerves in them you can feel you can feel what you're doing when you're laying out the caulking bead with some of these things called caulking fingers and these other type of things you can't feel through what you're actually tooling the caulking beat with so you're hands are always the best option caulking sponge the same needs to be nice and wet I do like inside I like using lukewarm water and it just keeps my hands warm and it just works for cleaning the sponge a little bit faster the spine should be you know nice and wet because it's you want your hands to be wet at all times and clean at all times you don't want to get any caulking built up on your hands see I leave a little bit of water in the sponge you can see there's a little bit left because I want the sponge to be you know nice and wet and not dry so I'm going to ring this thing out got my sponge I got my um my two gallon bucket sitting on a um drop cloth so I don't get anything wet on the floor now I'm going to begin applying my coffee and I'm going to cut

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