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Exterior Joint Preparation: When and What to Caulk

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Your questions answered by The Idaho Painter

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Caulk Gun
  • Old Bondo
  • Wood Putty
  • or Spackle

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good practice to do any caulking because those homes are actually just staining it and stuff but there are times when people previously cop stuff and we've got some butt joints and stuff that we need to talk and stuff to make the home look consistent and stuff to whatever the way it was done before but if I'm walking up to a cedar siding at home it's never been you know done before it usually there's not going to be any coughing on flat joints and stuff like that but if I was going to caulk it I highly recommend using big stretch you know is one of the Caulkins that you should use very good bonding capabilities I'm stretching capabilities but it doesn't like caulking a cedar siding at home just doesn't look natural I may think it kind of makes it look a little bit unnatural but once again you know there's a possibility you can do that if you like your butt joints you have to use something that's hard like bondo or wood putty or Spock or something like that yeah you're gonna have a lot of

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