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Caulking large cracks #diy #howto

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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This project demonstrates the proper technique for caulking wide gaps around a window frame using a backer rod. This method prevents caulk from bulging and failing due to thermal expansion and contraction, ensuring a more durable and professional seal. The process involves inserting a backer rod into the gap and then applying caulk over it.

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area, here's a piece of backer rod right here. Now, you know, if you get filled it's up with tower tech and it actually, you'll want to both sides, you would expand really well, but if it contracts, it's going to push out a big bolt of caulking, which is what it would look like before, so it's just best to take stuff and some backer rod in there. This will give you a caulking and some backer and just take my knife and cut it off of the end. Stuff that in there. Now, it's also going to take nearly as much as we call it in the height of the hill, and your track is going to have a lot of force and that's when it comes to expansion and contraction, especially our conditions here right now.

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