What Most People Forget to Caulk Before Painting Their House 🏠

This has to be the worst caulking job I've ever seen in my life. I'll show you the product I'm using. This is the actual product that the ciders use also too. It's usually specked out. Hardy board cement board siding. Uh big stretch is usually what's specked out for this type of material. If you use a cheap um sealant or coauling, you're going to have major problems of it separating and not bonding very well. So definitely, you know, use big stretch. I highly recommend you using this product. This is what I use just everyday interior exterior caulking. So, it's white. So, let's walk around. I'll kind of like uh point out some things I'm looking for to actually um caulk. Now, one of the cool things is is the way they installed this sighting. The nails, they nailed it on, but the nails are hidden. So, I don't have to caulk any nail heads. But I don't see anything that stands out, you know, here. Uh they typically on houses when they'll install metal vents, there's going to be metal vents under there. Uh the metal vents are never the sideers don't ever coaul those. These are actually vent set boards that have slits in it. So there's no cocking that needs to be done on the vents. So I'm going to cruise cruise around here, kind of look and see um what I can see right up here in the corner. You know, there's a hole mist where a piece of batting right there runs into the corner boards. Um, that's something that I'm going to caulk. I'm going to come over here. You'll look in here. This side. Um, and I have to say I saw the person caulking this side of the house. And the person that was doing this, um, she it was a gal. She actually did a pretty good job. As you go around, she eventually wasn't here anymore. and they uh the guys were caulking it. Pretty apparent they didn't have nearly as much experience caulking. So, over on this side, I'm not going to see much. I do see a um got some drip metal up here. I'm going to caulk, you know, this drip metal underneath it. Um seam board right here, trim board where it meets the top trim board that was missed right there. This was installed after the ciders, the garage doors. This needs to be cocked. Every one of these nail heads on the um the weather strip needs to be cockked. So that's um right here. I typically on exteriors wear gloves when I caulk um because you got a lot of grain, a lot of wood right here. Your caulking doesn't have to be perfect like it has um in an interior high side right here. I'm going to look at the windows. This starts getting pretty dang sloppy right here. window trim. This starts to get Man, unfortunately pretty dang messy. We've got a seam right here. It looks like there's definitely if the house wasn't going to be dark, you know, some of these pin holes and stuff would be showing up. I'm going to try to like, you know, coaul some of these things that I can actually see that you won't like see due to the color of the house. But if this house was painted white, this would actually look like like really bad. Right here, we can see along here some holes that need to be filled right there. Um, we got seam, you know, they missed the seam right there where the it overlaps. You got a saw cut and the trim board, you know, that wasn't cocked over right there. So, this right here, you know, this is um the carpenters installed the door jamb. This door jamb hasn't been cocked yet. So, this is going to need to be cocked right here. Due to the winter, uh, water be before the down spouts and gutters were put on, water was down here splashing up here. You can see it like absolutely destroyed the door, too. But this all the primer, it just wore the primer right off. So, we're going to have to sand that and uh reprime that. um that fill uh spackle um and coaul that. You can see how the caulking they cocked it right here. And while it was raining and snowing and the caulking wasn't dry, so it got it all wet is actually washing it off under here. You can see it's kind of washing off. We get to the entryway. We want this to look, you know, really tidy and nice. all these seams right here. I want these to look a lot nicer, be filled in, and make it have a really nice, you know, seams. That is just one freaking mess. Holy cow. This is where paint does um wonders with covering some of this. This has to be the worst caulking job I've ever seen in my life. Um, and I've been painting for a lot of years. Now we're back to the other side. So that's what it looks like. Um, what I'm going to do caulking wise.