The Holy Grail of Caulking Tips!!!

Oh caulking doesn't have to be a soul crusher another is one holy grail of caulking tips that will take you right to the pinnacle of the caulking world but that tip sits on top of four key fundamentals fundamental number one get yourself a quality dripless caulking gun this one came from Amazon I'll put a link in the description the yellow dripless caulking guns are the way to go this is what most professional painters will use now they're all about the same they're always yellow they'll always see dripless they do not have that little lever at the back that you have to press when you let go of the trigger the caulking stops immediately which is nice when you have the little push button guns they're fine too but the thing is is sooner or later you're gonna forget to push the button and it's just gonna use everywhere or make a giant mess fundamental number two is a small tip now it's literally a small tip on your caulking tube so when you have a new tube of DAP or caulking you're gonna want to cut the smallest hole possible on here you're barely gonna want to cut any of the end off and I actually like to put the knife blade out so you get to a part of the knife blade that hasn't really seen a lot of action so you just want to cut a tiny sliver off of the end you see how tiny that is I've cut off so little that there isn't even a hole so what you're gonna need to do is grab a thumbtack thumbtacks work perfect for this little operation now if you can't find a thumbtack have a look in your junk drawer at home you don't even really have to look in there just rummage your hand around you'll find it see I take the thumbtack and then just poke it in the end and then you have yourself a tiny little perfect dapping all in fundamental number three put an orientation line on your dab tube so what you want to do is find the long point of a little micro tip that you've put on there and then draw yourself a black line down the tube like this like so yeah so the orientation line is gonna make your life so much easier with this small tip it's hard to see which way it's actually angled so yeah you put the orientation line on there you can spin this around and the gun depending on which way you're going so you're coming this way you're turning a corner you might need to spin it a little bit the orientation line actually could be the holy grail of secrets but it's not there's a better one stick around we got one more fundamental and then we'll hit the Holy Grail in fundamental number four always have a wet rag caulking is messy keep your fingers clean keep the gun tip clean if you put too much on in one spot wipe it out always have a wet rag with you because caulking is a messy job this makes it ten times easier you've hit your four fundamentals you have the right gun you've cut the micro tip you have your orientation line on the tube and you have your wet rag handy you're ready to go from good to a bad mother this is the payoff pitch if you've ever done a lot of caulking you may notice that after you use a tube of caulk say it's about halfway down it starts to get better and better this is why what you want to do at the very start you have your micro tip on here your orientation line you want to create a little bee groove on this tip so that it will ride perfectly and get the tip a little closer that way squeezing the caulk in squeeze squeezing the culkin the caulking material into the crack rather than creating a big mess on the top so in order to create that I've seen painters take an exacto knife and cut a little V groove onto there but the easiest way to do it is what I'll show you right now I'll put a link at the end of the video on how to make these they're awesome but take two sanding blocks clamp them together and then take your tube get the orientation line as you would be holding it for dapping like a baseboard or a casing take your tube of dap and then actually probably just take it right over got a little easier to handle and then just take that in the corner and just get that where that v-groove in there right from the start and then you don't have to wait till you get down half a tube yeah so I've got a nice groove on there right now I did about three passes here and what that will do is when you're caulking it's gonna fit right into that corner it gets a little bit fuzzy with the sandpaper so you can pick that off with your fingernail it doesn't really matter if it's a little bit fuzzy that's okay check this out so this is a little sample board this is the micro tip with the bevel sand it into it we'll do a test of that yeah so that's one pass with again one finger swipe so this is what it's like with just a micro bevel here with no grooves on the side you'll see what that does so that's one swipe there one swipe with the finger and then if you cut like a regular sized tip on here that most people would cut so that you don't have one where you don't even use a thumbtack that would be kind of like well let's not get carried away like that would probably be what most people would use and that would look like this it doesn't look too bad without tooling it but there is ridges there so you would want to get your finger on there and then that's what you're looking like there the micro grip v-groove is unbelievable you can see like it just puts on so little material it's so neat and tidy and if you get the right flow pressure going you don't even have to swipe your finger on there just be laying it down almost perfectly yeah it's so much neater than the bigger tip like kind of like the eighth inch standard tip is kind of gross actually what do you see the two different colors and then even just a micro tip it's still leaving a lot of material thanks so much for watching we'll see on the next video

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Length: 6min 51sec (411 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 25 2020