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Assess Existing Sealant and Gather Supplies

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Trailer Repair. Resealing Your Traveling Trailer from LEAKS.

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • 2-Edge Knife / 2" Flex Blade
  • Caulking Gun
  • Caulking Sponge
  • AU-1 Commercial Construction Sealant

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so we're out here today we're doing a complete resale on a travel trailer right here and I'm going to talk a little bit about how we're going about doing this reseal so the reseal we do got some uh putty that's been uh pressing out over time and exposed it's getting dirty looking ugly we've also had the previous owner of this trailer actually put silicone around a lot of the the fixtures around a lot of the windows because there was a leaking problem and it wasn't the right way to seal it and so I'm having to do some removal that silicone so I'm going to be talking about you know some of the tools and products we're going to be doing we're doing a sponge caulking of tower sealants and the tower sealants I'm using is a product called au1 We're matching the trailer color we've got a bronze color of au1 we're going to be using right here we've got a white color and then a white and then we're using also another color that matches really well to this this is a stone color so it's au1 commercial construction sealant it hears really well it could span large gaps up to two inches but it's a great product for doing a reseal on this and it's not a silicone you don't want to use silicone the silicone exposed to light Sun dirt it gets really dirty looks really ugly over time it doesn't do a really good job sealing I'm sponge caulking using a sponge right here a caulking sponge right here and just a bucket of water so you this is really important that you have a good sponge for the sponge caulking of this so you can get a nice clean bead when caulking because of the silicone and to actually clean everything prior to doing a ceiling I really like this product right here it's called remove um just re a move without an e on it removes silicone and eat adhesives it's

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