Episode 003 1995 - 96 Season

| Wind Reinforcements | Rafter Clips | Cut-in Roofs | Truss Roofs | Truss Floors | Treating Water Stains | Calking Bathtubs | How Much Per Month? | |

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 You Can Do It- Caulking Your Bath Tub

Al Carrell : I know what you're thinking. This man is dressed for a jog on the beach. Well actually, we're not going to the beach, but we are near the water. We want to talk about your bath tub. One of the pesky problems you have in the bathroom is the fact that the bead of caulk that goes between the bathtub and the tile wall finally begins to peel out and get loose, and when that happens you have a yucky looking wall and you also have water getting in the wrong places. The first thing you want to do is to kill the mildew and you can do that with bleach. Now we've taken a small bottle of bleach and we put one of these spray nozzles from another bottle on there, so it really makes it handy. We can go along and spray wherever the mildew is and that will help to get rid of it. Now the next step is my least favorite, and that is getting rid of that bead of old caulk that's in there. If you're going to do it, you can do it probably with one of these can openers. This is punch type can opener called a church key. And you just use this point in here to start digging. Once you get some of it loose, you may be able to pull the whole strip all the way out. Well, we're almost ready to put the new caulk in, but before we do, I'm going to do something that you may think is a little bit kooky, and that is we're going to fill up the bath tub. There's a reason for this. And that is, that this will add a lot of weight in there and it will pull the tub down, although you won't be able to see it, make that crack as wide as it possibly can be so when we fill the gap up and the water is let out, you'll have plenty of caulk in there to take care of whenever you do take a bath in here, because you're weight does amount up. I'm going to fill this thing up, and we'll get going. Along with my considerable girth, this is probably going to be enough weight. So let's get on with the caulking chore. It's a good idea to start over at one edge over here and work your way all the way around. If you have to stop you can still smooth it out. I want you to know that you need to get tub and tile caulk. There is another kind of caulk and that's used outside and you don't want to get that. Now I'm going to show you how you can smooth it out. Just dip your finger into the water and then come along and you can get a nice smooth bead. Now where you're slopping it over, you're going to need to come back and wipe that off, but that's not going to be difficult. If you wait until it sets up, it will be difficult. All right, that's about it. All we need to do now is take a paper towel and clean up a little bit where we've slopped some over on the tile and the tub. Incidentally, there's another way to do this. It's a strip that you can get and it comes in a roll and it's peel and stick and you peel it off and it bends and you put it in place around there where the caulk would go. Either way, it's going to cost you under three bucks for the materials. Takes a little time, but it really does help to make the bathroom look better and it is a do-it-yourself project.

Episode 003 1995 - 96 Season

| Wind Reinforcements | Rafter Clips | Cut-in Roofs | Truss Roofs | Truss Floors | Treating Water Stains | Calking Bathtubs | How Much Per Month? | |

To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #003.