Paintability and Absence of Plasticizers

joint movement so that means it will expand or contract 50 percent and that's that's quite a bit um this is another caulking this one of the things that i noticed from some of the talking you know over the years is um the plasticizers and caulking will cause what we call shiners in the paint and you'll start to see um a shiner where the caulking is where you've painted over this on the tower caulking right here the technology is it that's in it you will not have any shiners and that could be pretty important um if you're using an expensive paint that does show shiners so the tower caulking is this is a water-based product so it cleans up with water very simple and easy to use and it is paintable i'm always using a paintable caulking there would be rare rare situations that i use 100 silicone but 100 silicone you cannot paint i was just out working on a commercial building where they painted all the seams in the commercial building or they actually caulked all the seams in the metal sided building and they use 100 silicone caulking and you cannot paint over that it's all going to have to be removed so i use water-based latex or acrylic type caulking that cleans up with water and it's got to be paintable and that's what these two products are so there you have