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Inspect House Exterior for Caulking Needs

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What Most People Forget to Caulk Before Painting Their House 🏠

What happens here

Walk around the house to identify all areas that require caulking. Look for gaps or missing caulk in corners, around windows, doors, and where different materials meet. The presenter notes that in this specific house, the siding nails are hidden, so there's no need to caulk nail heads. However, he points out areas like a missed hole in a corner board, missed drip metal above a garage door, uncaulked trim boards around windows and doors, and sections where previous caulking was poorly applied or has failed.

Goal: Identify all areas on the house exterior that require caulking for weatherproofing and aesthetics.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk GunCarrying the caulk gun as a visual aid during inspection

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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

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