Understand Caulking on Textured Surfaces

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 leave it just in the hole. You're going to see a big flat spot on your wall. It's going to look worse than the hole look to begin with. That's going to look worse than that actual little hole that now shows up as a spot this big instead of a little tiny hole. You I can try to fix this. I can put some caulking on there. Now I can move it up and down with the grain and I can turn that into a grain look and attempt to fix that. How painstaking is of a process is that going to be to attempt to work out all these? I would literally charge the builder probably $800 to fix this mess. So just going to give you some tips on, you know, properly caulking on a substrate like this. So, if I have a seam, you on here, this is already been cocked, but I'm just going to put a small bead on this seam. And to fill that seam, the grain runs up and down. So, I want to take and wipe my bead of caulking up and down in an up and down motion with the grain. And I'm going to allow my finger to actually bump the caulking and actually create a grained effect to it. So, if I had a nail head, say right in the middle, right say right here. I'll fill that nail head right there, and I just want to fill the nail head. Now, just fill it right there. Move it up and down. I want to move the caulking up and down, not side to side.