Remove Old Silicone Sealant

and the the putty comes off they say you're pretty easy the bad part like this silicone here silicone around the light it's actually just a mess and it's hard to get the silicone off that takes a lot more time an effort what I'm doing with the lights I'm just pulling the lights off and then it's a lot easier to remove the silicone with that light off so I'm just cutting it back just enough so now I got enough to fill inside there enough space to fill just like that now I'm gonna before I do any of my caulking with my sealant I'm going to clean that I'll show you I'm going to remove this light will show you kind of the silicone mess this is all messy silicone that's attracting dirt over time looks really ugly the au1 is going to dry and it's not going to collect dust and dirt smokes fixtures are removable and this is the easiest way to get most of the silicone off and all this light gotta break this so now you can see here's my silicone all exposed a lot of it's just going to peel right off it doesn't Bond very well um and then I'm going to clean peel it off my light and then the silicone will leave a residue behind so you definitely you think you got it all cleaned off you still want to use your adhesive remover to remove any residue of that silicone otherwise you know nothing sticks to silica you can't paint silicone um and like your other adhesives stuff like that will not stick to it silicone some nasty stuff really should be able to use indoors because if it's inherent of ability to just collect dust and dirt so this is our the silicone remover this again is the best product I've ever found for removing adhesive silicone residue which is like if you're redoing a bathtub that has silicone just gonna put some remover got to make sure you remove it all off this light because your sealant is going to be sticking from the light to your metal so plastic to metal that's one of the great things about once again about this au1 is it sticks to all kinds of different substrings you can see I can there's still a little edge of silicone you just got to make sure you remove all of it because once again nothing is gonna Nothing's Gonna stick to that silicone this is the hardest part about this whole job is this silicone mess when it comes to this side with that putty it cleans up fast and easy want to get rid of any dirt residue any of the putty that's exposed Beyond where you're sealant would go just work on just scraping that off comes off pretty easy just be…