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Emphasize Over-Caulking for Durability

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Tools and materials

  • Big Stretch Caulk
  • Caulk Gun

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caulking on there, you know, compared to probably uh most people you'll ever see caulk cuz I take and hide it really well, you know, with how I actually apply it. But I I want it to fill what I want it to fill. I want it to bond to both sides of or whatever it's filling and I don't want it to separate over time. And so I like to coaul and I like to overcock. So there is a right way and a wrong way. So I have an example right here. I'm trying to fix, you know, this mess. Also, this is, you know, a situation too. Right here, we've got um two pillars right here that are exposed to rain and snow. And when I'm caulking on something like this, the rain and snow will have a tendency to sit on 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

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