Caulking a chinkless style milled log home can be easy if you know the steps. Here you will see how to apply caulk to a chinkless log home. Log home chinking products from Weatherall are superior to the competition because UV Guard Textured Caulk is easy to use, extremely elastic and was designed to match the texture of your wood. It can be used to seal around doors, windows, horizontal joints, small cracks and large cracks.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hi. My name is Scott with Weatherall Company, and I’m going to discuss briefly how to caulk a log home that is a milled log home with a tongue-and-groove system on it. These are known as chinkless style homes. What happens sometimes over time, especially if the logs have too much moisture, moisture content in the logs is high, is over time, the logs can twist, and this tongue-and-groove system can get compromised and you get water and air infiltration in there.
There’s a big debate out there. If I owned a tongue-and-groove system log home, I would just go ahead and caulk the whole thing. It’s easy to do, and I’m going to run a quick demonstration on how to do that. What I do is I usually put the bead on about a half-inch thick. I don’t have one on this caulking tube, but usually I use one of these tips. I can cut it back further so I can get a larger diameter tip, and it helps put a larger diameter bead on there. Usually, that comes with one of these guns with the threads, and you just screw it on, cut it back, and you’re good to go.
This is really simple to do. The nice thing about this is you don’t have to use backing material, backer rod. It’s really difficult in this shallow-profile log to get backing material, backer rod, to stay in place. It’s even more difficult to get round backer rod in there because it has memory, and it kind of dives in and out, and it just doesn’t stay very well. So, the best thing to do is just caulk it without backer rod and use a very high-elasticity caulk. It’s real simple to do, so I can demonstrate that right now.
[inaudible 00:01:45] I put it in there. I cut my tip at 45 degrees. That means I still keep that angle perpendicular to the work surface. If you’ve caulked before, it should be pretty straightforward. Once you do this enough, you get to the point where you just pretty much machine this stuff on, and it goes really quickly. I recommend doing it … buying the tubes because they’re already prepackaged. Buying it by the pail is difficult because you’ve got to load it, and this stuff is difficult to load in a 30-ounce bulk loading gun.
You just end up getting too much air in the product, and you get air bubbles and things like that. It goes real quick. I have put this stuff on homes 20 years ago, and it still lasts. It’s a very durable product. Does great in UV. Does great up in the mountains at high altitude. For someone to caulk a home like this is very simple. This stuff is very easy to apply, very easy to work. Again, if I was using a trowel, spray the trowel, and I would seat it this way. What you’re doing is just making sure you’re just lightly pressing that stuff up against the wood so it adheres, and you got a good seal. That’s it.
Post time: May-25-2017