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Create Water Runoff on Horizontal Surfaces

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  • Caulk Gun
  • Work Gloves
  • Big Stretch Caulk Sashco

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horizontal surfaces like this, which these aren't meant to have snow sitting on it. It's not meant to have water sitting on it, but it will cuz it's exposed to all that. So, when I'm caulking right here, I'm caulking, I'm creating a large enough bead that the water will run off. It kind of creates a profile right there that it'll run off. But, anytime I'm caulking, say even this bead right here. I'm trying to fix this bead. I'm going to put a large enough bead of caulking in there. I'm going to come down to these corners. I want these corners to be, you know, extremely full right here. I'm going to come down with my glove. I'm not going to push very hard cuz I don't want it to smooth out. I kind of want it to look like grain. I moved it out right here. You don't have a lot of time cuz the caulking start to dry really fast in the sun. I push it down. I'm filling it in just like that. If I have any excess, I'm going to wipe this excess off someplace. I never like don't ever wipe this on your clothes. It's one of the um rules of the thumb.

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