it can be difficult getting a neat silicone line but there are a lot of
tools out there now that will help tremendously when you are applying
silicone sealants I've got a couple of them here this one is a Fugi and this
one is the fugenboy you can get more tools than this this is just a small
selection but these are very good at what they do we'll start off with the
fugenboy kit that is a kit that it just has three profiling tools in it
and each one of the profiles is different depending on which size bead
of silicone you require you've then got one that has got round profiles on it so
that is useful but you can get a better kit than that well I'll take a look at
the fugi kit which is what I prefer to use this kit is incredibly good
because it does enable you to get some really neat silicone lines we have a few
tools in here all of which are different profiles on them for doing different
jobs this kit will probably contain everything you need to do most
profiles with silicone if we take a close-up of one of the siliconing tools you'll see that
it actually as the size stamped on there so we've got five mil seven mil 8 mil
and 10 mil beads that will give you the corresponding size bead so these three
tools in that side all of which do different profiles and two in this side
and on this side you actually get these which you can fit on there and they're
coming useful if you are for profiling against a tiled surface or something
where do these gaps that will enable you to slide past without getting stuck in
the grout line I've now placed at the silicone sealant in the silicone gun
and I cut the nozzle to approximately 45 degrees at the end I'm now going to
apply a bead of silicone and I'm purposely gonna do messy silicone line
so this is not going to be the neatest line ever
I'm now going to use the fugi tool to tool off that silicone that will give us a
neat silicone line you'll notice I've got a lot of excess sealant there you
can actually reuse that if you wanted to but I'm actually going to throw that
away so I'm just going to wipe it off using a wet wipe and then that can be
binned the silicone actually wipes off the tools very easily indeed so it
is quite easy keeping them clean so that is a seven millimeter bead I've actually
set this up using some dark wood so that you could actually see the white
silicone line and see exactly how neat that is if you put a bead on and you
think it looks a little bit too big you can always go over it with a smaller
bead so this time I'm going to go over that using the 5 millimeter profile it's
quite simply a case of pushing the tool in until it touches both surfaces and
then slowly move it from one side to the other and that will give you an
extremely clean silicone line like that if you decide that you don't like the
silicone line you can actually remove it whilst it's still wet using this shaped tool
that is 90 degrees in the corner I have now rigged this up just to demonstrate how to
use the guides on the fugi let's say I put in an 8 millimeter bead in this
corner using the fugi once you start drawing the tool in the correct
direction you'll notice that once you get to the grout line there it sort of
sticks and goes in makes it difficult and then the same thing will happen
again when you get to the grout line there that is why you use the guide the
guide simply fits on there like that and as you can see it's rounded at the end
there you can then put that on there and you can pull it smoothly along there and
it will follow the tiles perfectly without sticking I must admit that I
always used a fugi kit because of the two guides that come with
that they're level you to do really neat silicone lines between two tiled
surfaces I'll now give you a quick demo on this using
some white silicone again and we'll try and get the neatest line we can
using the fugi again I'm just going to apply a bead of silicone to that you
don't need to get it incredibly neat or anything I actually try and make it
as un-neat as I can I'll then get the fugi tool and I will tool off this
be of silicone if you take a look at that line now it is almost perfect it is a
lot better than using your finger or anything like you can get an incredibly
neat bead using these kinds of tools so there we have some tools that will
help you to get a neat silicon line you can also get some tapes that you stick
in position before you Silicone I've never actually tried those I always tend
to prefer to use the Fugi kit