Consequences of Inadequate Sealing

meeting if you skimp on this and you get cracking in a sealant that's supposed to be giving you your waterproof barrier you know in the penetrations through the roof or your window or whatever it may be now you're going to have water coming in the house and at this point you know I mean this is kind of funny but why even live in a house if you got water coming in the house right the whole point of the house is to keep your stuff from getting wet insurance companies pay out about two and a half billion dollars a year on water damage wow right that you could stop by paying nine dollars for a tube of caulking instead of six dollars that makes a lot of sense and I and I noticed you know early on my career I didn't see a difference but then you know as I progressed throughout my career I would I noticed that if I uh purchased a cheap sealant and I won't name names but I would literally come back a year later and it would be cracked and um I would it would be so frustrating and so now I've got to go back I've got to touch up to those cracks I gotta reseal them I gotta repaint them so that's time and time you know is money another thing I I started to realize you know the average house that I was as a repainter doing you know um you'd go through maybe a case of caulking extreme cases maybe two cases of Caulking and if you really add that at five dollars or ten dollars five times twelve not a mathematician but five times twelve is 660. I almost said like 45. thanks to the hell um so sixty dollars and it's on the scheme of things sixty dollars on the average exterior repaint which is probably around thirty five hundred to four thousand dollars is such a small amount that why would you skimp on that amount yeah and and if you think about it from the homeowner's perspective right if if you get a sealant failure now you know air can move through your window assembly or whatever it is you're air conditioning the outside right you're paying for it and your energy bill yeah you might as