okay i'm going to redo the caulking on my bathroom tub and i'm going to use this product here it's ge
kitchen and bath advanced silicon and the reason why i'm using this is supposedly
it's a 10 year warranty mold free sealant we'll test exactly how that works after a couple of
months we'll find out but this supposedly mold free silicon sealant
what you're going to need is a grout um saw this is what it looks like
and it gets to clean out the little um lines in the grout a box cutter
i got this type of cutter two scraper with a blade on it flashlight rubbing alcohol ajax and
a caulk gun for the um tube of caulking we're gonna use
okay i got tired of seeing the black line on the um tub touching the ground it's
actually caulking on the that touches the tub not not grout the grout is inside the
tile and on the bottom where the tub is it's clocking and i bought this new silicon ge caulking
maybe in about six months after i've done this i'll show you what it looks like in six months
30 minute water ready strength and crack proof won't blemish metals low on odor
lifetime guarantee 100 silicon ge and 100 waterproof but the key here is the actual
10-year mold free we'll see about that a small screwdriver and um
and a box cutter knife and that cleaned it up really well now i'm going to use some um
rubbing alcohol and clean both surfaces where the new cogging is going okay i use some um
rubbing alcohol isoprotic rubbing alcohol and i use this scraper if you can use a scraper like
this make sure that you um have some liquid on the on the surfaces so that you don't scrape up the
paint or anything so i went around and cleaned all around with the rubbing alcohol to make the
surfaces ready for the new adhesive as everybody knows by now when you have one of these um
caulking guns there's a little hole here you can stick the um the nozzle in and you twist
press it and it cuts the um tip off like that
so it comes with i think all the um
caulking guns and also on this there's a little wire here on the end see the little wire
it's folded down but you could open it like that and use that to cut open the hole into the um
into the um caulking
now it's open you don't have to do anything else
you throw the caulking into the um gun
first you loosen it
and you align it so that the tip is down
and then you just start spreading it
okay with that i'm caulking it's not that hard to do
i think it's impossible for you to do a bad job with it if you have too much of the haze on the
um tub or in the tile you can scrape it off as you go by with a little water paper towel
the tiles on my tub aren't exactly even on the bottom there's a bit of a gap
so i'm going to wait for that to dry and then i'll do another
bead of caulking under there to finish up where those holes are it's coming out pretty
good though so far one of the things you got to be careful when you're doing this is um
when you start scraping the old caulking out don't let it sit in the um tub and don't let
the water rush it down the hole you're going to want to clean out whatever's in the tub
before you run the water again you don't want that caulking getting stuck in the um
drain another tool you want to pick up is this like little tidal saw it costs about
four dollars at um lows and what it does it has this abrasive edge on it that you can fit
between the grout lines and for some of these you can clean the grout with this tool alone
you can either do that or use like bleach and baking soda and leave it stay on here for a
while but on some of it i'm just going to use this you don't want to push too hard you don't
want to take too much grout out but you can take the surface area of the ground out with it
okay after waiting about 20 minutes 30 minutes between
applying more caulking to the bottom there i think i finally got it um it came out really
nice hopefully this new caulking works well i'm going to let you know in about six months
what it looks like it's supposed to last for 10 years without getting mold and mildew we'll see
i'll probably clean up the um walls and the tub now after this dries at 24 hours
um because i had a huge gap there more gap on the left than on the right i had to apply
um a couple of coats of caulking so what i would do is apply one bead wait 20 minutes then apply
another one and another one until i finally filled into that um gap there and it came out pretty good
i should be able to clean up some of the sx older caulking that's still stuck on there a little bit
now i'll wait for it to dry though first
um if you haven't gotten any get some plastic gloves and put the caulking on
with that because you're gonna get that stuff all over you and it's not easy to get off
um but it's it's looking pretty good right now and we'll see.
how to re caulk a shower and clean up the grout