Post-Caulking Drive and Industry Insights

got all the caulking done shot a few videos and some few questions came up from you know some of my followers and one of the questions is can you use silicone caulking on that outside of your house and you know one thing you do not want to do is use 100 silicone on anything that's going to need to be painted because you cannot paint 100 silicone caulking and make sure you read that you know on the label and don't confuse that with um like a siliconized caulking which siliconized caulking can be painted but you just got to make sure the label States so so make sure you read the label make sure you look at the TDS and understand what you're using another question that came up was you know what is caulking crack and um my first thought is because you're using a cheap Caulking and so there's good and bad caulking so you know I use a love Tower of sealant products I love sashco products Big Stretch you know if you're using a good quality caulking from a good quality company they're going to be using high quality resins in their Caulking and they're going to be putting more resin in their caulking which you know makes it adhere better and makes it flex and um and makes it less likely to crack so cheap caulking cracks but also you know failing to you know install your caulking correctly can also make it crack so if you don't feel the Gap entirely you know then you're crap your caulking could easily crack and move that's what we call skim Caulking and you're going so fast over the the crack of Gap that you're not filling it and you're kind of just putting a very thin layer of caulking over it it looks like it's filled but then uh you know a day later a week later a month later I it cracks and it'll even can crack a year later so insulation can be an issue too but we're all done doing the caulking and I got to run to the store pay my Supply go got to do some tasks there and then going to be heading out to go ride again so um today can't wait to Ride second day in a row um also got a pretty cool um Brandy making and whiskey tasting event I'm going to tonight at 6 30 downtown Boise so can't wait for that Father's Day so you just never know who's gonna show up at pay life Supply Co so today to America wraps one a marketing guy and another rep just showed up at the store unannounced which was kind of cool because America makes super cool stuff and you'll make some of the best tools in the world and they were actually in town for Hudson wood products that was doing um…