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Address Client Specifications for Caulking

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Should You Caulk Cabinets Before Painting? When to Caulk and When Not to!

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What happens here

The initial focus is on the current cabinet job, where an Aqua Coat product is being applied. Michael, another painter, explains that for this specific job, caulking was a mandatory specification from an interior designer. The designer wanted a "seamless look" on the cabinetry, which required everything to be sealed and caulked. This highlights that client specifications, often driven by design choices, can dictate the need for caulking, even if a painter might typically avoid it.

Goal: Understand how client and designer specifications impact the decision to caulk.

Tools and materials

  • Aqua Coat Aqua Coat — Applying to cabinet doors to achieve a smooth finish, potentially as a base for caulking
  • Cabinet doors N/A — The items being treated with caulk
  • Scrapers/Spreaders N/A — Smoothing applied product

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so we're just cruising right along just applying your aquacoat on these cabinets and you know this is a job right here you know um should you the panels or should you not caulk the panels and i do um i don't ever cough panels on uh doors anymore myself but um this job right here is michael's got this job and uh so what did you got um what's the reasoning behind caulking the panels on this job did you say you had a designer that yeah i had a client that has a interior designer and she laid out the whole project and they just handed it over to me and said bid this we want it exact to spec and that was in there that was everything sealed and caulked on the cabinetry to give it a seamless look and um so i just took what was given to me and and um i i just ran with it yeah that's so um basically you know michael's got this situation where you know the specifications spec for them to be caulked and so you know if you want to be able to bid the job and do the job then you're going to have to you know caulk them and so you know you just got to be flexible as a painter sometimes you know um even i can sit here and say well i don't caulk them anymore but if i wanted the job then i would have to talk them

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