Exterior Caulking & Sealing Tips

So a few pointers, like when I'm cocking you start to get excess built up on your glove. We also cock all the nail heads on the house. You can't see them as well here because the house is white, but I cock every single nail head. If I got excess on my gun, pull it off the gun, hit the nail heads, and another thing is when you're wiping your cocking, the grain's going this way. Don't wipe it vertical. If it's grain's horizontal, wipe it, horizontal, it'll look just like the grain. It's the same on your face, if you wipe it, horizontal, the grain's horizontal. It'll match and it'll disappear once you paint the house. You'll never see it. Maybe in the vinyl, see when the vinyl meets the trim, there's a crack there also. The nail heads, if you don't seal the nail heads, then eventually what we do, we call it a volcano. They swell up around the nail head, and then you'll see the nail head really bad. In the swelling, you know, is this composite sighting swelling up because it's basically just glorified cardboard. So we've got staples, Christmas lights makes it really hard to roll the bottom of the fascia if you don't remove the Christmas-like hooks. So we require the customer to, if they're like cup hooks, we require them to be removed because you can't paint it with them on there.