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Address Caulking on Meter Box and Window Trim

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What to Caulk on the Exterior of a New Construction Home | Caulking Tips for a Weatherproof Finish

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What happens here

The presenter identifies a seam around a meter box that requires caulking. He points out that if the house were to be painted a lighter color (like white), the visible gaps and messy application from previous caulking would be very apparent. He then moves to a window, highlighting numerous spots where the caulk was either missed entirely or applied sloppily. He proceeds to apply caulk to these areas around the window trim, filling the gaps to ensure proper sealing. He comments on the low quality of the previous caulking work, noting the messy application and areas where the caulk ran due to incorrect technique or cold weather conditions when it was applied.

Goal: The presenter moves to another section of the house, identifying and caulking gaps around a meter box and poorly sealed window trim that shows signs of water damage and previous messy caulking.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk Gun
  • Gloves
  • Big Stretch Caulk (White) Sashco

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and sponge caulk everything. So, walk around this side and we'll show you what we got going on on this side. Um, high side right here. I'm going to look at the windows. This starts getting pretty dang sloppy right here. Um, here's hole right here that was missed. Looking around window trim. This starts to get man unfortunately pretty dang messy. Um, and I'm not sure like, you know, how well the paint job's going to hide this disastrous mess right there. And I'm not sure how much better I can make that. 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. got a saw cut in the trim board, you know, that wasn't cocked over right there. So, this right here, you

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