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Prepare Area and Choose Caulk

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Caulking Your Tape. Paint Like a Level 1 Master.

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What happens here

Before starting to caulk, ensure the area to be painted is fully masked off with painter's tape, specifically 'FrogTape Green' as recommended by the presenter, to prevent paint bleed. Select the appropriate caulk. The presenter discusses two options: 'Tower Tech 2 Clear' which is thinner, easier to work with, dries slower, and is good for cut-ins without significant gaps; and 'Tower Accelerator' (a 50-year caulk) which is heavier-bodied, dries faster, and is designed to be painted over instantly without cracking, making it ideal for flat paints or dark accent colors like the 'Behr Dynasty' interior matte paint used in the video. For flat paints, Tower Accelerator is highly recommended to prevent cracking over the caulk.

Goal: Select the appropriate caulk and ensure the area is masked off and ready for application.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk Gun — Dispensing caulk accurately
  • Painter's Tape FrogTape Green — Masking off areas to create clean paint lines
  • Behr Dynasty Interior Matte Paint Behr — The accent paint color used in the demonstration
  • Tower Accelerator Caulk Tower — Caulking edges that will be painted over instantly, especially with flat paints or dark colors
  • Tower Tech 2 Clear Caulk Tower — Caulking cut-ins where no significant gaps need filling and a thinner, slower-drying caulk is preferred

What they say

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so I got everything masked off we begin the cocking I got a couple options I typically caul with either Tower Tech 2 clear or I'm going use Tower accelerator Tower accelerator it's a 50-year cing that was actually designed to be painted over um brush and rolled over it instantly you don't have to wait any period of time over flat paints it won't crack either painting on it your right away we're using a matte paint right here I've tested um I'm doing some testing with this product um it's bare a dynasty so I've used a tower um the clear cuz I like the clear better cuz the consistency is a lot thinner it's easy to work with it's not good for filling gaps but if I don't have any gaps to fill on when I'm doing my cut ends uh I'm going to always side towards using a clear cocking cuz it's just thinner easy to work with dry slower also so but if you're using flat paints I would highly recommend Tower accelerator cuz it's not going to crack um flat paints are notorious of cracking over the top of caulking but um being a suit the Bears high-end paint Topline paint we're going to experiment with it on that wall and see how it performs I'm going to be using tower accelerator on the inside of this tight space right here and we're going to see the difference between the two but once again um a white coofing it's got you know more pigment in it more solids it's heavier bodied and dries a little bit faster don't need to be worrying about cocking inside here it's just going to be cocking right here and these two sides right here um and that way I get perfectly straight lines on my tape using this super dark color accent color I don't want any type of bleeding it's really thin it could bleed on any type of imperfection on your tape so you definitely want to it

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