Hi! I am Mark Osbourne. I am the Founder of Manor Works Painting. Manor Works Painting is the largest residential only painting company in the metro area and we are celebrating our 10th year in business.

Today, we are talking about painting in the interior of a room. We have already finished our sanding, which is second step in the surface preparation process and we are ready to move on to the next step, something called caulking. Caulking is a type of product or sealant used to seal seams and cracks that exist, where surfaces meet. In this case, we are going to be using a siliconized latex based caulk. In this case the area where the baseboards and walls meet, does not need to be caulked because it that was done recently, but there are other areas that need to be caulked.

In this particular case, we are going to be re-caulking, where the panels of this door meet where some seams and cracks have developed. Caulking is applied with the caulk gun and the first step is to cut a small opening at the tip of caulk at a 45 degree angle. Then simply hold the gun at a 45 degree angle, pull the trigger and apply a small bead of caulk along the seam. The key is to not apply too much product, which would then have to be removed. Once the caulking has been applied, we would like to smooth it out either with a finger or wet rag. For an interior situation a latex siliconized caulk would probably be the best. Once the caulking has been complete, now its the time to move on to the next step in surface preparation process, something called priming.