- [Man] There you go.
- Okay, so today I'm gonna show you
how to do those professional-looking caulk lines
here along the bathtub, here.
And you can see, we're gonna caulk
from here in this back corner all the way along here
and down there.
And you can see, we have water in the tub, here, first.
The reason why we're putting water in the tub
is the weight of this water in the bathtub
will slightly deform the bathtub.
And that's the shape you want it to be in when you caulk
because that's the way the bathtub's going to be used.
So your first thing, if you want to
maximize your chances of success,
is to use a drip-less caulking gun, which is what this is.
And I'm using a sanded, color-matched grout.
So this is a warm gray, that's going to be the color here
that will match these tiles here.
And this is a sanded grout.
And it's also siliconized, so it'll be waterproof.
And the mistake that most people make is,
when they caulk, is they put too much material down.
And that's why, when you come by
and you wipe with your finger,
you're leaving all sorts of amounts of caulk behind
when the idea is to cut this as small as you possibly can
and still be able to poke it.
So you can see that real tiny hole there that I've made.
So we're gonna put down a thin bead.
And then to help, because this is silicone,
and silicone's very difficult to clean up,
we're using this spray that I like to use called Caulk-EZ.
And what you do is you lay down your bead,
like it shows here, and then you spray foam over it
and then you just wipe it with your hand.
And the foam prevents the silicone from spreading
anywhere where it wasn't already laid down as a bead.
That's what makes this such a great product
and why I like to use it.
And it makes it look professional every time.
All right, so, let's get started here.
I'm gonna start back here in the corner.
And you just lay a real thin bead at a constant speed.
I'm gonna stop it right there.
And I take my can of spray, give it a little shake.
Spray it.
(foam hissing)
Like that.
And I'm gonna take my finger and wipe it down.
And then we're gonna take a little bit of paper towel
and just very gently wipe away the excess of the spray foam.
And you can see there, it looks really clean.
And we may go over it again with a second layer,
just to get a little bit more in there.
So now we're gonna go and do this section here.
And I always like to start near the bottom
and work my way up.
So we've got that there.
I'm gonna spray foam it.
(foam hissing)
I'm gonna wipe it upward with my finger.
Get it all off of there.
Get a little paper towel.
Wipe off the excess foam.
Just do a little adjusting here
with the finger on the curve.
And there you have it.
When it dries, you won't even see
any of the evidence of the spray foam there.
We're gonna let this sit like this all day
with the water in the tub, here,
to keep the tub in that slightly deformed shape
so that this product can cure on here.
And then later on at the end of the day, before we leave,
we'll go ahead and drain out the tub.
All right, so now I'm gonna come back in this corner here
and work my way a little bit this way.
I'm getting a couple of these little thin spots
that I missed.
Gonna get that little guy out of the way.
We're gonna take our foam.
(foam hissing)
Little more there.
See how quick and easy that was?
It's about 10 seconds' worth of work, right there.