Stop Choosing The Wrong Caulking! (Get What The Pros Use)

so I'm going to give you a complete guide here and anytime you need to caulk seal silicone anything inside your home you're going to know exactly which product to use so despite the fact there's literally thousands of these products out there we can really understand everything that we need to know with these six products we start on one end of the extremes with just a hundred percent silicone all the way to the other end with a hundred percent acrylic latex caulk but let's not beat around the bush here 95 percent of the time I am going to use dap dynaflex 230 it's going to be perfect for moldings window sills caulking a toilet to the floor tile backsplash in the kitchen or bathroom a lot of professionals choose this product I'm going to quickly run you through why it is superior to the other products we'll also cover that five percent of the time where you're going to want to pick one of these other products and if you end up using this it can lead to a huge disaster so the reason why I like this product so much it's got everything going for it it's flexible you can paint it and it's very sticky if you need to glue things together when we think about the flexibility here the most flexible is going to be 100 silicone if we look at a bead of that it's just it holds together very nicely you come to the far end of the spectrum here 100 acrylic latex caulk and it is just it's not flexible whatsoever we move over to the dynaflex here you take a look at a bead of that and it's flexible it's not quite silicone flexibility but it's definitely not cracking apart like the acrylic you move one step over to this acrylic caulk with a little bit of silicone in it and it's it's slightly more flexible still going to crumble apart the flexibility is key here think about a toilet situation you're caulking it to a tile floor you get a 250 pound man sitting down on that toilet you best believe that thing is going to be shifting around this is going to crack with moldings say you have a crown molding up along the roof you're you're caulking it to the ceiling and the wall with the seasonal shift between winter and summer the trusses move around and you're absolutely going to get cracking if you use 100 latex caulk the next thing here is yes flexibility is great but you have to consider the paintability and it really kind of goes hand in hand with that flexible Dynamic so if you look at the silicone it is the most flexible by far but you cannot paint silicone there's a couple things you could do to kind of paint it in terms of priming or coating over it with other products But ultimately you're never going to get a great paint result when you're using a water-based paint over silicone that's where the dynaflex and these products really shine if you look at this little sample board here that I've made of each of the products you can see that all these four here paint over beautifully the silicone is horrendous there's it's just streaking the paint will literally not stick to it it just flakes right off when you think about the paint's ability yes all these ones here are paintable but there is a big difference between these two and these two and that comes down to just let's say you get into a situation where you're doing some baseboards and you want to just caulk the top of the baseboard and you don't necessarily want to paint over that caulking it is recommended to paint over your caulking but let's be honest it doesn't happen all the time big difference here when you look at these two products here have a listen to what they sound like when you rub them okay that's these two they're noticeably rough look at the dynaflex here listen to this it is quite a bit more smoothery where that comes in you've got your baseboard you've cocked the top of it you're not going to paint it let's be honest with this stuff here it's going to be rough it's going to pick up grease Grime dirt very difficult to clean it with the smoothness of the dynaflex it's going to wipe up and clean a lot easier final thing to consider here is the stickiness glue Factor if things are going to be shifting around you're trying to hold a molding to the wall where there's not a bunch of things to nail to gluing down a countertop the ability of these materials to stick to things and hold on is going to be Paramount if you take a look at these two sample boards that I made up here I've just used each of the products to glue a piece of wood to this glass tile you can see with the silicone and the silicone blend excellent job a lot of stick left on the bone there it would not come off move over to the far end with the acrylic latex not a good glue both the sticks just pop right off into the dynaflex and the Big Stretch both of those a lot of stick left on the bone there they are both good glues you can see why I like the dynaflex product it does everything well it's flexible you can paint it also good at sticking and gluing and it's worth mentioning here the Big Stretch product in all likelihood is just as good as dap dynaflex I recommend this just because I have way more experience using it but there is that five percent of the time where you definitely need to use silicone silicone or a silicone blend is going to be perfect for anytime you you have to attach like a heavy countertop to cabinets you're mounting an under mount sink anytime you're working in a bathtub or a shower the stickiness waterproofness and flexibility is going to be better than the other products now 100 silicone versus the Blended the 100 stuff is going to smell like vinegar this is going to have less of a smell this stuff the Blended silicone will set up a little quicker it's not quite as sticky that being said I always see professionals using 100 silicone so that is what I stick to you also get the added benefit if you need a clear product where you want to hide the seam the 100 silicone is going to be more translucent than the Blended and certainly more translucent than any of the lower tier less flexible products and hey if you want to get better at Caulking and not end up hating your life when you're using these products this is your ticket right over here and save you just a mountain Of Heartache in the future what am I selling slap drops here

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Length: 6min 31sec (391 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 18 2022