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Clean Excess Caulk Properly

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  • Gloves

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in his hand. I'll try to help eliminate that. That's going to help eliminate that. If I have more, I'm going to get rid of it someplace. I can begin just wiping it on here. I don't want anything on my fingers. One of the keys to being able to coaul and well is not to get this all built up on your gloves cuz that's going to really mess up your caulking bead. Your fingers want to be clean. So, I'll typically sometimes just find some place on the siding to clean my glove. Wipe my glove off. I want it to be clean. I want the sides of it to be clean. Just like that. So, I've been cocking for a while out here and you can see my gloves. I don't get a whole lot on me. That finger because I've been out here videoing talking. It's getting a little built up on it. It starts to dry. It will just roll off. My gloves are clean just like a clean finger. But those little boogers on the end right there will mess up your caulking bead if you want a smooth caulking bead. I don't need 100% smooth caulking bead because, you know, I've got wood grain here. So, I'm going to fill that nail hole. I'm going to work it back and forth. This This grain is going this direction. So, I'm going to work it side to side that direction. The grain here is going up and down. This it's going up and down. So, I'm going to work it up and down. This side to side. I see this all over up here. We've got it, you know, examples all over here. Um, I mean, I've got examples where the guy smeared it with three fingers, two fingers, but we've got examples where up here, you can see where the caulking was smeared

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