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Select and Apply Appropriate Caulking Material

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

What happens here

The presenter demonstrates applying caulk to a cabinet panel using a caulk gun and then smoothing it with a sponge. He recommends using a high-quality, elastomeric caulk with a lifetime warranty, such as Tower Tech or Elastomeric, for superior flexibility and durability. His colleague, Michael, specifically mentions using Loctite Power Grab Ultimate, noting its pre-cut small tip, which aids in creating a nice, clean bead, and its quick drying time (paintable in 30 minutes). A screenshot of White Lightning Products Painter's Preferred Acrylic Latex Caulk is also shown as an example.

Goal: Effectively apply a high-quality, flexible caulk to cabinet panels for a seamless finish.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk Gun — Dispensing caulk from the tube
  • Sponge — Smoothing the applied caulk bead
  • Loctite Power Grab Ultimate Loctite — Caulking the seams of the floating panels

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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 uncaulked will could be a uh better option

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