Caulk Around Window Frames with Wet Sponge Technique

them before you paint them so we got a good look at some nail heads that y'all the nail gun set the nails in too deep those will take on water and eventually start to swell and cause a volcano so we're gonna you definitely want to caulk over every one of those even the ones that have it penetrated that are still um water can penetrate around the nail head and cause it to swell so this box we would typically you'll paint this box to match yield the house so we would paint it but I typically wouldn't caulk it like this but we're going to try to make it look the best we can this um box is like a powder coated metal so you need caulking that will stick to that and we'll try to just smooth out some of this with this extra cockle in my hand some big gaps up here in the soffit that's where it's important to have something like this product if you fill these gaps Big Stretch will span like a gap like like a two inch Gap or so it's oh so this is a big like one inch Gap right here and if you use an inexpensive caulking you definitely are going to run into a problem with that cracking and you'll see the customer has got some caulking they already done that's already cracked and the house hasn't been painted yet so very important to use the right product if the Gap is too big use backer rod to fill it in