Trim Caulking Secrets That Will Change The Way You Caulk!

there's all kinds of specialty tools weird looking gizmos and over complicated unnecessary methods that people use to caul their trim work but there really is just a couple of simple secrets that are going to give you lightning fast super clean looking results so let me show you exactly how to do that we'll go over this door trim here I'll show you the straight runs the inside corners and then what to do when you come across some of those big nasty gaps now first things first what type of caulking should you use for trim work if you're in North America I would highly recommend dap dinoflex 230 I've been using this for about 15 years and it's the best product that I've found so far the reason that this is better than the regular Alex plus the 40-year stuff is flexibility this has a dynamic joint rating of plus or minus 25% this does not even have a rating it's probably around 3 to 5% this is far less likely to crack so if you don't have doflex 230 in your area download the spec sheets and look for that Dynamic joint rating now when it comes to storing these tubes you can see here the two simple options that I use piece of painters tape thumb it rate seal up the edge wrap around or the tiny condoms here these just roll on the open tubes and keep everything nice and fresh this is going to last for 3 4 months this will last for about a month they won't last for forever but this is a nice way to store the open tubes when it comes to a cocking gun if you have one of these levered guns do me a favor throw this thing out in the driveway and then run over it a few times with your car you're going to be much better off with a dripless gun this baby is $10 89 I will link it in the description this is the cheapest best option out there the dripless feature is going to be much easier for the beginner to use if you're a Season Pro and you've been using the levered gun for 15 years you're a legend and I appreciate you if you're a senior out there and your hands are a little bit kind of arthritic and you need some help have a look at this gun here it is an exterior grade gun it's going to be more for your um thicker glues and adhesives and exterior cocking products this has a Thrust ratio of 18:1 versus 10:1 what that means is just going to be easier to squeeze out this material here so if you don't have strong hands this is your Pony right here let's get to the cocking thing that's probably why you clicked on this video I'm going to show you the secrets here this is the number one secret that is how to cut the proper tip on your tube if you do that it's going to be infinitely easier than the wrong tip let me show you exactly how to do that take a razor sharp utility knife you want to cut away from yourself the very easy to cut yourself here so take that knife put it right towards the end and then I don't like to cut it straight across I like a bit of an angle maybe about 10 15° it doesn't have to be exact and make a clean slice now you want to find the longest point of that tip take a forever marker red black whatever color you have and make an orientation line along that Top Ridge what that visual reference allows you to do is get the gun in the perfect orientation whether you're going up and down going left to right you got to turn a corner you can spin the tube in the gun and get this thing exactly where you need it to be if you don't have a marker take your utility knife and just make some shark fins along that Top Ridge and then the next thing here is just a secret that I picked up from some of the best painters in British Columbia I stole their secret and I made it a little better I saw a lot of them slicing little side angles onto their tips with a utility knife it's hard to get that the same every time what I like to do is take some sandpaper I got a couple blocks here make your S A 90° angle hold the tube at that angle that you've cut it if you're not sure you can check it on the table maintain that angle do two three four swipes that's going to put the little ridges on the side and then if you have any fuzzy bits just take your fingernail and pick those little bits off now this might seem silly to put these little ridges on here but it's going to help the tube Glide along a lot more precisely and it's going to get the tip a lot closer to the crack where you it's going to help the material fill up the crack and that's what you want to do to make things look seamless so load up your gun get yourself some wet paper towel that will come in handy don't worry about breaking the seal on these tubes none of the water-based dap products have a seal if you did have to puncture something you're not going to be able to get that uh cocking gun rod in there it's going to be too thick for your small tip what you want to do there is do not cut a bigger tip just use a piece of tie wire whenever I get rolling I like to start on the easiest spot just so I can get a sense of how much I need to squeeze out if you move the gun too fast and you're not squeezing hard enough you're not going to put out enough material but if you move too slow and you're squeezing too hard you're going to make a huge giant mess so find that perfect flow the right squeeze with the right speed and here's the thing if you do end up putting on not quite enough material you can always come back and add some more material very easily once you've put on too much material it's it's a mess it's a giant freaking mess that is why people end up hating cocking so air on the side if not enough material and you can always come back and add more so work on a few of the easier spots we'll do this straight section here in terms of the angle of the gun you want to bict that 90° corner and then the tilt of the gun you want to match that up with that initial angle that you cut on the tip get a it feel get it going the right squeeze rate keep everything steady when you get towards the bottom and the gun's going to run into the ground this is the beauty of the dripless gun let off the handle spin that tube around and then rejoin back into your dap line there then once you've got that cocked all the way along you want to put some moisture on your finger I've got my wet paper towel I'll dip it in there and then you want to be able to do one quick swipe and have everything look perfect if it's not looking perfect you've put on too much material adjust your amount in the future if you've made a bit of a mess here take the rag and just wiper down a bit next we're going to look at this inside corner now this is one of the trickier situations we're going to need to caul three ways and make it look clean the key here is get this thing perfectly wiped off start it in the One Direction pull out wipe it off come back you need to COA this little seam here as well so we'll come out that that way and pull out wipe it off this is and the third Direction now if you've done this right you should be able to take your pinky wet it down and stab it in there good grief the innuendos never stop here but get that pinky in there just smooth it out if you ended up putting in too much material and you made a bit of a mess take your knife your utility knife wrap the wet paper towel on there and just pick some of that cocking out and then smooth it over with the pinky finger and now let's find cover this big gap at the top here you really don't have to the top of your door jams here but if you have boys at home young boys at some point in time they're going to hang off this so I'm going to up here on all mine for the big gaps just go a little slower and squeeze a little harder if you have any voids Circle back hit the void and then wet the finger down give it a swipe got a couple more little spots here hit that with a little bit more cocking a final swipe and you can see that is looking tremendous and that is pretty much all you need to know to be an absolutely legendary Cocker and if you've ever wondered what it would look like if you cocked these nail holes and this miter seam and then painted over them before you do that you're going to want to check out this video right over here with the dripless gun you let off the trigger and the my God the crack of the material before you stick it in the the crevice area there's no way to say that without coming across that a bit creepy by keep your tip clean

Channel: The Funny Carpenter

Views: 1,822,757

Keywords: caulking tips, caulking hacks, dap tips, how to caulk, easiest way to caulk, caulking trim, baseboards, the funny carpenter, funny carpenter, storing caulking tubes, silicone secrets, door trims

Id: VW7ZXXCNGQQ

Length: 8min 38sec (518 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 24 2023