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Understand Caulking Mistakes

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examples of the worst exterior caulking job I literally have ever seen in my in my entire life. I think this is a good opportunity to do a video uh to show you the bad and then to show you how to properly do it. I can do this. this I can show you the bad cuz I would never want to do this in somebody's home and show you how not to do it because you're going to see the bad, you know, once you paint it. And you know, one of the great things about this siding right here, it's a wood um it's not actual wood. 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

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