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What To Caulk On A House

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Video by The Idaho Painter

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This video demonstrates the process of cleaning up excess stucco that has splattered onto the concrete base of an exterior pillar. Crucially, the video explains why a joint between a stucco pillar and concrete should *not* be sealed with caulk to prevent trapping moisture and causing potential wood rot or damage to the structure, offering vital weatherproofing guidance that deviates from typical window caulking applications.

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so I'm going to show you down here we're prepping the house we're cocking priming um getting it ready to paint um down here this isn't something you would CA but the stucco guys got stucco on the concrete which doesn't look good so I'm just showing just it actually will come off really easily not sure why the stuckle guys didn't clean it off but just part of the process of painting making everything look really nice fixing stuff like this so you can see just the stuer will just scrape right off with a 5 in one and you won't see that anymore we got it on both sides here but you don't want to put caul that down there cuz you could you'll seal if it ever gets wet moisture under there you're going to seal moisture inside there and it's going to want to come up through this pillar it's going to cause um any the wood that will start to rot we got it on you know both sides the sides even worse there's fiberglass and [Music] stucco this fiberglass I can just cut it with my up [Music] [Applause]

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