Caulk Gaps and Cracks
At 4:21 in
Painted The House Myself, Wife Changed Her Mind
What happens here
Tools and materials
- Caulk Gun
- Exterior Flexible Caulk DAP
What they say
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What they say
(2,497 characters)good job guys very important you get yourself an exterior caulking that's flexible the most amount of flex the better because the reason everything's cracked is because of flex uh there's just a mount i can give so once we get our set up first part we're gonna do is the very classic part we're gonna find where all the nail holes are they're not always easy to spot but once you spot them you gotta get them covered also these gloves are so perfect to use this all the painters use them as opposed to using like nitrile or rubber gloves if you're having a hard time finding these nails usually if you look below those are usually the first ones that expand the most and then usually they're linear going up after the nails we're gonna start caulking all the windows that's uh cracked as you can see again expansion contraction will just do that this will keep the windows from uh having any kind of drafts and it will make it flawless when it comes to being painted girl that's flawless one of my favorite parts about painting your house is it totally going to make your neighbors jealous because i feel like what are their health looks so much nicer it's because we try jerry because we actually tried to make our house looks nice make sure you get all the trim pieces here this is the existing caulk that has been cracking as well so we'll make sure to get a nice bead there as well this is very also very helpful because in the summer times when all the pests are trying to get into your house they are trying to go into these holy nooks and crannies and lay eggs as well not in my house got it next make sure you get all these soffit little vents most of the time here in this situation they have screws in but most of the time they're installed they're installed it's staple so they kind of drop a little bit by putting caulking around it you'll secure it in place and have it stay up a lot longer so i'm up here next we're gonna do all these transitions of the fascia basha as you can see the old caulking cracked again it's gonna happen it happens but the most important part really is the underneath part it almost everywhere cracks and that is why all these swell up as water gets behind them and starts absorbing so this kind of basically creates a a dam if you will not cussing just it's a dam okay just a little barricade and lastly the last important part to caulk are these door jambs don't forget about the door jambs the entrance to your home and your heart oh that's deep you're…
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