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Prepare for Caulking with Gloves

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It's a um wood material or wood product that looks like wood, but it's got a lot of grain to it. And you can easily coaul with gloves, which is really nice. I don't like getting caulking all over my hands. I don't like the chemicals from caulking being on my bare skin. So, I always with gloves doing exteriors. And one of the beauties about that is I can take put some caulking, you know, right in the middle of that, I can move it around, it still looks like the grain itself. And when I paint over that, even though you see a big white spot, when you paint over it, you literally will not see it. It's um literally impossible to see it if it's done right. Now, if you do it like this right here, that was a little nail head, like a little pen right here, and there's a huge swipe of caulking right there, a gigantic mark of caulking, and the person just ran their finger over the whole thing and completely filled in the wood grain. That's literally, you can't get rid of that. That will show as a flat shiny spot, a flat spot like right on the grain. It's kind of like going into a textured house. Say you got an orange peeled texture house and you got a hole a nail hole in the wall and you take a spackle knife, you know, inch and a half and you put a swipe of spackle right across the orange peel texture and you don't wipe it off with a sponge and

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