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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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The presenter is working on the exterior of a new construction home. He explains that due to the project starting in winter with adverse weather conditions (snow, rain, low temperatures), he had to hand-roll and paint the fascia before the roof and drip metal were installed to protect it from water splatter. This unconventional timeline meant that some typical construction steps, like thorough caulking, were either missed or done sub-optimally. He highlights that the siding contractors (siders) often do not caulk to his standards, necessitating his intervention to touch up, fix, or caulk missed areas.

Goal: The presenter introduces the project: thorough exterior caulking on a new construction home that began in winter, leading to some incomplete or poorly executed initial caulking by other contractors. He explains the need for proper caulking to prevent weather damage and improve aesthetics.

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So today I'm out here. We're going to be working on a new construction exterior. Looks a little bit different than a typical new construction interior cuz I started this in the winter time and the roof was going on. I couldn't because of weather, snow, rain, uh temperature. I couldn't paint the whole entire house. I wanted to get uh the paint the fascia painted before the roof metal drip metal went on and the roof went on. So I went around hand rolled all the fascia. wanted to get that on uh or painted before because it's a lot harder to cut around the gutters, the down spouts and the drip metal. And and then they, you know, because of the house raining, snowing, water was being splattered on the house, you know, during the winter time, they ended up putting the gutters on up here, installed the gutters also to stop, you know, the mud and everything from splattering on. So, not your stereotypical new construction house. So, I got to deal with that kind of stuff. But I'm going to go over caulking. So, uh even though the ciders very stereotypically they do the caulking and they don't do in my opinion or up to my standards thorough enough caulking. I'm going to walk around show you you know some of the stuff I touch up fix caulking coaul miss stuff. You are going to see, you know, painting corner boards, uh, bottom part of the siding. You're going to see a lot of, um, black. It's a color called green black. Just because I was doing the fascia everywhere, I figured you might as well I might as well just hit all the corner boards, down, batting boards, hit certain areas to give it a coat of paint on before I spray the whole thing. And it's typically on a repaint. This is what I typically do on a repaint. typically hand roll, back roll the bottom two boards, back roll all corner boards, batting boards and stuff before I spray. I never back roll after I spray. This is all it's going to be interesting. The whole house, entire house is going to be this green black. So, it's going to be uh kind of something different. Haven't done something like that in a lot of years. But going to walk you around, show you your typical new construction, what it looks like. um the job that the citers did cocking and see if I can find anything that I need to, you know, final coaul before we spray this thing. I'll show you the product I'm using. This is

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