Applying Exterior Caulk to Gaps and Seams

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What happens here

Begin applying the 'Big Stretch' caulk to the identified areas using a caulk gun. Pay close attention to corners, around the garage door frame (specifically the weather stripping), around windows (where trim meets the siding and around the window sills), and around exterior door jams. For areas with existing damage, such as a door jam where primer has worn off due to water splashing, the presenter indicates that these spots would need to be sanded, re-primed, and then caulked to ensure proper adhesion and a lasting repair. Use gloves when working with caulk to easily smooth out excess and clean up if perfection isn't paramount, as often happens with exterior wood grain surfaces. Make sure to fill all pinholes and gaps.

Goal: Seal all identified gaps and seams on the house exterior with caulk.

Tools and materials

Brush — Applying primer to damaged door jams
Caulk Gun — Dispensing caulk
Gloves Maxiflex — Protecting hands and aiding in smoothing caulk
Sander/Sandpaper — Sanding damaged areas before priming and caulking
Big Stretch Caulk Big Stretch — Sealing gaps and seams
Primer — Preparing damaged wood surfaces before painting/caulking

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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

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