Choose Appropriate Topcoat and Caulk Type

in any cracking of the caulking and also your top coat if you're using a lacquer as a top coat if there's any expansion and contraction the lacquer would be more likely to uh crack and break than if you use say like a water-based renner coating that's more flexible like a pu you're gonna have more flexibility less likely that it's going to crack so you it's really just you know every situation you just have to take every situation um evaluate the situation and determine what's the right thing to do and once again i know there's some people out there that just believe that you should never a floating panel ever but my challenge would be you know to ask you know that person that says that have you actually ever seen a floating panel that was caulked and have you gone back and looked at it you know two years later three years later because once again i've i've actually caulked and done full sets of kitchen cabinets lots of them in the boise idaho area and i've never once got a call back on them and i've been doing them for years probably uh 10 years maybe something like that caulking panels and not one callback so you have to go by you know history and record also if you did them and you got called back because they cracked then maybe that's something you shouldn't do but use to me use a good quality caulking like even an elastomeric caulking tower tech elastomeric their lifetime warranty caulking would be a great caulking to caulk floating panels with um doesn't dry as fast as the quick dry um like you do michael you use bolt is it quick dry yeah is that what you said bolt i was using loctite the loctite lock tight and it's it's just like the white lightning and i um and it and it comes in a already pre-cut very small tips so it lays really nice beads and it dries it's paintable in 30 minutes so um this is my uh second project using it my first one that i did last year i used it on and it worked very well so so you've been a professional painter for a long time uh michael and um are you confident caulking the panels um i'm saying from on these panels i'm very confident in the process that we've done um in the in the products that we're going to use but i um will definitely in future when we have jobs like this we'll explain to the client that leaving them