Caulking for beginners - A Repair to Remember

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Got gaps in your life? Host Mag Ruffman introduces you to the wide world of caulk, and shows you how to use a caulk gun to improve the look of your interior trim, and how to apply caulking to exterior window trim to reduce air leaks. Get your caulk on and tidy up your trim, plus save money on heating bills!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Understanding the huge world of caulk
03:40 Preparing your joint for caulk
06:26 Anatomy of a caulk gun
06:59 Prepping the tip of your caulk and piercing the membrane
09:16 Applying a bead of caulk
11:37 Tooling the caulk
13:06 What to do with a complicated joint
14:26 Interior caulking prep
15:20 Cutting the tip for interior jobs
17:28 Applying caulk on interior trim
17:39 Here's where you'll be glad you did your squats
18:14 Tooling the caulk (interior)
19:29 Mag's Roundup - Styling your lettuce
A Repair to Remember CREW - Season 1
Host: Mag Ruffman
Director of Photography: Joan Hutton CSC
Art Director: Ane Christensen
Editor: Joe Weadick
Music: Carole Pope
Writers: Maryke McEwen, Mag Ruffman
Producers: Maria Armstrong, Maryke McEwen
Director: Laura Buchanan
Executive Producers: William Johnston, Ronald Lillie
1st AD: Filomena Guarasci
Camera Operator: Colin Evans
Makeup and Hair: Sue Upton
Continuity: Frances Handelman
Sound Recordist: Bronwen Connolly
Assistant Editor: Lisa Robertson
Construction Consultant: Daniel Hunter
Graphic Design: Marc Rosing
Production Coordinator: Twila Linden
Assistant Production Coordinators: Elaine Nicholson, Laura Lillie
Production Assistants: Lisa-Marie Dooley, Jeffery Necker
Camera Assistant: Rylan Vallee
Catering: Debra Wilson
Music Publisher: Joan Tone Musik
Clothing: Indian Motorcycle
Special thanks to Malcolm Firkser
A Repair to Remember aired in Canada on the W Network between 1997 and 1999.

[@anniebrewer6930]

so glad I found you again! thanks for sharing .

[@peterthinks]

The bloopers for this must have been epic!

[@toolgirl]

I don't envy the editor

[@markhodgson2348]

Its always a joy when I see your videos come up in my recommendations 😊​@toolgirl

[@KevBell1701]

I can tell just from the opening sentence that this is going to be a good one ;)

[@markhodgson2348]

You could have a calking party 😂😂😂many hands make light work 😮

[@toolgirl]

I don't think that's legal

[@KevBell1701]

Hahahahah! I must have the brain of a teenager - I've been giggling through this whole episode - thank you for sharing it Mag!!!!!

[@jonpower9728]

The disdain Mag has for oil-based caulking tells a deeper story there...🤔

[@toolgirl]

You are so right. It was 1989. I was tasked with removing brown, ossified, heinously-applied oil-based caulking that had failed. And failed. That day will live in infamy.