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One of the tendencies I noticed in the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show this season would be the high number of goods that slide. There were products that slide up or out to utilize, then slide out of sight when not in use. There were also excellent products with sliding elements that increase their own functionality and style. This Ideabook encompasses those, and many others spotted in other recent trade shows.

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Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

Blum Servo-Drive

This entry is about full-overlay drawers that slide open without pulls or knobs. Blum has been known for superior cabinet hardware, such as full-extension, soft-close undermounting drawer slides and soft-close door hinges. Servo-Drive permits you to make a clean-lined, full-overlay drawer bank without a decorative hardware. A touch of the finger activates the drawer opener.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

GE Monogram 36″ Slide-Out Hood

This hood slides out from below a cabinet, where it remains unobtrusive until you need to utilize it. In addition, it can be used as a stand-alone chimney-style hood. I used it in a upscale kitchen with integrated appliances to great effect.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

Salice – Bortoluzzi Sistemi

Salice, yet another premium European hardware maker, introduced its own Bortoluzzi Sistemi to the US market in 2011.

These heavy duty hinges allow cabinet doors to slide open across one another, like the passenger doors onto a minivan, instead of swinging out. This frees up walkway distance. They offer automation, which is very good for the bigger, heavier doors you might want to include within an European-style kitchen.

The S-Box

S-Box Knife Box

S-Box has introduced a series of sliding organizers. This one replaces your regular, countertop-cluttering knife block, and does not tie up a drawer how a cutting edge center does.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

S-Box I-Dock Box

You’re likely to need your iPod handy in the kitchen to enjoy your favorite songs while you work. Why not keep it charged and skip the ear buds in precisely the same time? This slider brings your charging station from below the countertop to easy use with the touch of a finger.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

S-Box TV box

Here’s a smart way to add a television to your kitchen. This set, complete with an HD-ready TV/DVD and remote controller, slides upward from your countertop when you want to watch — and back out of sight when you don’t.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

S-Box Key Box

This slide-up-from-the-countertop key holder adds an element of convenience to your daily routines. Keys can be stored out of sight, but in easy reach.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

S-Box Spice Box

Where to store your spices is always a kitchen preparation question. This slide-up organizer adds another option. Locate it where you prep your meals for a convenient, smart way to keep your favourite seasonings arranged and within finger reach.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

Brizo Solna – $349

This modern kitchen faucet along with its companion bar/prep faucet offer a unique characteristic: Their pull-down spray heads slide out of sight when not in use for a sleek, modern look not often achieved in this category. The sliding spray heads pull via levers tucked subtly behind their graceful necks.

Jamie Gold, CKD, CAPS

Gaggenau Induction Cooktop

This Gaggenau induction cooktop Isn’t yet available from the U.S. I spotted it in the LivingKitchen Show in Cologne, Germany. What gets it into this sliding Ideabook is that you can slide a pot or pan everywhere on its surface and cook there. It is going to even remember the configurations you made in its prior position and slide them to the new site. It is planned for 2012 US launch.

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Sliding Best Kitchen with Minimal USA

One of the trends I’m really enjoying is your European-style”un-kitchen/hidden kitchen” look. Doors slide open to reveal storage and appliances. Countertops slide open to reveal retractable and sinks faucets. The kitchen shown below, by token USA, is typical of its category — coming to an upscale showroom near you!

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Sarah Susanka, architect and best-selling author of the”Not So Big House” books, has just finished her latest example of building a right-sized house.

The house, in the School Street neighborhood of Libertyville, Ill., is 2,450 square feet on 2 floors and sits on a small and narrow lot, 29 feet wide by 100 feet long. The house’s interior spaces are lined up at a row; each has a west-facing window which lets in plenty of sunlight on chilly winter days.

This house is part of the School Street Project, a development which will incorporate both single-family homes and the old School Street school building converted into condominiums. The development is an example of New Urbanism attracted into an small city. It’s within walking distance of schools, houses of worship, town’s Main Street and the commuter rail station for people working in Chicago.

Sarah Susanka

The house’s Arts and Crafts aesthetic helps it fit into its surroundings. Along with front porch provides back to the neighborhood, allowing the house to take part in the public sphere.

Sarah Susanka

The front porch, large enough for a table and chairs, aligns with the other porches in the neighborhood. Spaces such as this encourage friendly neighbors and safe areas.

Sarah Susanka

The front door is actually at the side. This enables a more open layout. The entry axis and flow axis along the back of the house provide the interior with a clear organizing principle.

Sarah Susanka

The living room, to the left after you enter the house, is created particular and spacious with a raised ceiling which incorporates indirect illumination. The display wall keeps the room open into the stairs while supplying enough of a barrier to be sure the distance has its own ethics. From the opinion down the hallway, a piece of art is displayed in a lighted niche.

Sarah Susanka

To the right of the entry, toward the street side of the house, are the dining and kitchen areas. These rooms are open to each other yet maintain their own spatial integrity through the use of walls, ceilings and trim.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

A dining area is visible from and open into the living room.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

The light in the large west-facing window of the studying area illuminates the heart of the house, bringing natural light into the living room. The custom muntin pattern makes the window even more special.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

The kitchen is visible in the entry area and circulation spine. A special feature of the layout is the kitchen’s location at the front of the house, perfect for preparing a snack while watching for the kids to make their way home from college. Also, the front of the house receives the most sunlight so having the kitchen gives this heavily used space a great deal of natural light.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

The organized flow of the house is evident in this opinion.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

A backsplash is among those places you might want to splurge on when building a new house or remodeling a kitchen. It’s one of these items you see every day — several times each day — so it should be purposeful and interesting.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

This is the opinion entering the house from the garage. This mudroom offers plenty of storage for coats, boots and backpacks, and there is a desk for organizing the household’s activities and data. Toward the front of the house, we could see the stairs, living room and kitchen.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

The stair hall is three stories tall and has plenty of natural light deep into the heart of the house. When open, the windows at the top provide natural ventilation to the house, particularly helpful on warm summer days.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

Built-in display markets and spaces make journeying up and down the stairs beautiful.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

At the peak of the stairs is a laundry/crafts room. This room offers plenty of storage space and counters for folding. A sink provides a handy cleanup spot for crafts and house jobs.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

The master bedroom at the front of the house, incorporates a window seat and taller ceiling for light and spaciousness. The easy, painted trim gives the room a tailored feel.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

Unlike a lot of houses which have the bedroom closets built at the interior walls, the cabinets in this child’s bedroom flank the window thus a built-in window seat can be incorporated into the room.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

The identical attention to detail is found in the baths.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

An outdoor living space obtained from the second floor is over the garage and rear end of their first floor. This place provides a quiet and safe place for kids to play and for outdoor parties.

Sarah Susanka, FAIA

The programs show how the house’s linear strategy of a single room deep distances is set to gather as much light as possible. This approach allows a few passive heating of the house during those cold Illinois winters reduces the house’s carbon footprint and conserves energy bills.

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This house is built in a very urban fashion, but it’s really located in the seaside neighborhood of Silver Strand in Marina Del Rey, Calif.. The houses in this section of town are really close to each other, so builders are often made to build up instead of out.

The owners of the home had a space that could have lasting design and grow with their three children. Designer Joani Stewart-Georgi infused the house with a transitional look that combines contemporary and classic design, and took good advantage of the home’s height with a stunning rooftop deck and view of the ocean.

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The rooftop was a blank canvas if Stewart-Georgi first came across it. The chimney has been its just structure up there, so that she worked with it, covering it with piled stone.

The flooring is made with smooth epoxied pebbles, a material the customer spotted on the ground of a regional Pinkberry.

Side tables: Crate & Barrel
Umbrella: Berks Patio
Stone on Fireplace: Bourget Brothers

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

A kitchen has been set up beside the fireplace. Since the weather in this region is ideal for outdoor entertaining nearly all the year, the clients wanted a space where they could host parties and make the most of their outdoor space.

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The rooftop is split into two areas, with an indoor sofa aboard. Stewart-Georgi is working on turning the other half of this rooftop deck to an outdoor play area for the children.

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

A recreation room, guest room and bath and laundry room fill the floor. This multipurpose room has been outfitted with a pool table and sliding Nana doors that open to a private patio with a different outdoor kitchen.

Flooring: Rhomboid Sax
Rug: The Rug Company,”Cowhide Morocco”
Sofa and seats: Seva Home

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

This was a space the husband actually wanted to be his — and with a place to shop and celebrate his love of wine was a massive part of the. A cherry wood bar with stainless steel inserts was built against the back wall, together with an impressive wine storage method tucked behind two glass doors.

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The third floor houses all the bedrooms. The unbelievable wall mural in this nautical themed nursery was painted by Sedi Pak out of Sedi Studios, who also designed the mural from the girls’ room (adjacent ).

The clients wanted a mattress in the nursery for a place to rest and relax while taking care of the baby. The room was a bit too small for a fantastic daybed, therefore Stewart-Georgi compromised by locating a seat that folds out to a bed. The major floor pillow was custom made so that their son could play on the ground comfortably.

Carpet: Contempo Floor Coverings
Red Chair: American Leather
Bedding: Gordonsbury Company,”Sailing Away”
Murals: Sedi Pak out of Sedi Studios

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

For the girls’ room, Stewart-Georgi needed to take care to balance out the limited space for the 2 children. Two small wardrobes take the area of closets, plus a built-in bookcase has been added for extra storage. Everything was designed to be within the women’ reach.

Carpet: Contempo Floor Coverings
Wardrobes: Stanley Furniture
Murals: Sedi Pak out of Sedi Studios

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The playful contrast of pink and brown was motivated by a photograph Stewart-Georgi came across in a magazine. She found perfect white and pink polka dot fabric, and had it made into duvets with small brown pom-pons at the top. The beds were custom made in a plush brown cloth with contrasting pink piping.

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The 2 children’s rooms are at one end of the ground, while the master suite is at the end of a long hallway on the other side. The master bedroom was designed to be an area of supreme comfort and relaxation. Soothing sage greens and soft off-whites were chosen for the color scheme, also Stewart-Georgi set up a small seating area near the foot of their bed for the couple to relax at the end of a long moment.

Mattress framework: Room & Board
Arm seats: Michael Berman
Bench: Room & Board
Table lamps: Barclay Butera
Carpeting: Contempo Floor Coverings

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The master bath’s long and narrow design made it perfect for a large his-and-her dressing table. Travertine floors and Caesarstone counters complete the luxe look.

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The kitchen in this brand new spec home was done in a very traditional style when the couple moved in. They wanted to redo it, but didn’t want to go too contemporary or trendy. Stewart-Georgi had the surfaces refaced and fresh alder cabinetry and Caesarstone counters installed. The pantry has been outfitted for supreme organization, and an integrated desk has been added beside the refrigerator.

Counters: Caesarstone “Blizzard”
Backsplash: Mission Tile West

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

Stewart-Georgi produced a transitional look throughout the home’s interior, relying on habit and classic investment pieces.

The living room plays off black-and-white tones, however, the combination of textures keep the room warm and comforting. A glistening travertine floor reflects the abundance of natural sunlight. The fireplace surround is made from cement painted with a faux finish for a classic look.

Area Rug: Tufenkian
Side Effects: Custom created by Arden House, Andrea and Frank

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

The living room is a long and narrow space, therefore Stewart-Georgi broke it up into multiple seating areas, contrasting the black Barcelona chairs with a white pair of contemporary armchairs and a couch. The second floor of the house includes all the home’s main common spaces, including the kitchen, dining room, living room, and living space.

White sofa: A.Rudin Designs
Armchairs: David Edward”Lolita”
Artwork: Karen Sike, Bradford Stewart
Coffee table: Mies Van de Rohe Barcelona Table

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

Stewart-Georgi enjoys contemporary art. The painting and the mirror inside this dining room were designed by friends of hers — the stunning mirror is made from stainless steel tubes welded together to look like bamboo.

Mirror: Susan Landau Designs
Chandelier: Charles Jacobson
Chairs: Room & Board
Artwork: Amadea Bailey

Joani Stewart-Georgi – Montana Ave. Interiors

Though this neighborhood was once close to the water, the construction of canals have placed it further back from the shore, which makes that rooftop deck even more significant.

Photography by Douglas Hill Photography
Contractor: DC Williamson General Contracting

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Moldings are employed to protect the region where the ground meets the wall. They can be installed from the underside of the wall on the edge of the flooring and rest, making it hard without harming the molding to eliminate the flooring. By reducing the flooring straight next or flush to the walls, it is possible to remove old flooring and keep your molding or toe-kicks. This lets you reuse your molding or toe-kicks and conserve cash on your remodeling budget.

Put on safety glasses. Set the blade of the toe-kick observed on the ground such it is right or flush alongside the wall where you need to slice the the flooring that was old.

Firmly keep the handle along with your left hand as well as the rear handle by means of your right. Maintain and press the security button after which pull the trigger change to begin the motor of the toe-kick observed. Release the security button when the motor starts.

Move the blade of the toe-kick observed away and gradually ahead from you while you slice the the flooring near the wall. Release the trigger once you’ve finished the cut. Before the blade entirely stops keep the observed in the flooring.

Pry up the flooring using a pry-bar to eliminate the cut area.

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The porous character of concrete indicates that water from under your house can seep up making it moist. This may cause problems with with mildew and mould, particularly for those who have furniture or carpet in addition to the concrete. Garages and basements — the standard rooms with concrete floors suffer from inadequate air circulation, providing the dampness no where to go once it seeps through the ground. Sealing the concrete can help remove the dampness in your floor.

Check for Dampness

Examine to find out how moist it’s before you seal your ground. Tape a little square of plastic that is clear to the ground using painter’s tape. After 24 hrs, examine the plastic to find out if water has condensed beneath it it. Your floor could be too moist to seal in that case sealants should be employed to your floor that is dry. Clean and dry your ground before sealing it.

Clean the Ground

Before drying your ground, clean it properly to remove any and dirt built up mildew. Vacuum or sweep it carefully, then scrub it using a mop. Use a solution of one part bleach to water to clear the ground. The bleach has the additional advantage of helping to eliminate mildew and mould that may have accumulated on the ground. Pay specific attention to the corners, where mould and bugs tend to stay. For cleaning, hire pad developed for concrete and a floor scrubber with and use it to utilize TSP, or tri-sodium phosphate, to the ground. Rinse the floor carefully, then use a wet- vacuum to eliminate the water.

Dry the Ground

Get your ground as dry as possible before sealing it. If it is perhaps not wet it is best to wait for times as well as the humidity is not also large to assist the ground dry quicker. A de-humidifier can assist draw the water out, or a flooring enthusiast can aid circulate the velocity and air evaporation of the dampness. Continue drying the flooring until your check with all the square that is plastic stays dry.

Seal the Floor

Sealers are apparent, which could make software difficult, as protection is important to preventing potential dampness in your ground. It is most useful to paint little locations in a time to make sure complete coverage having a a skinny layer of sealer; as it dries too much sealer can direct to bubbles. Use a sealer developed for dampness defense that is concrete, like an epoxy sealer, which which regularly comes in two elements that has to be blended instantly before implementing. Pay specific attention to the corners and edges of the flooring, where cracks can permit additional dampness seep in. Even Though some sealers can be utilized with a paint sprayer, many floor sealers are best used with a regular paint-roller. Completely protect a tiny area having a a skinny layer of sealer, then shift to the following area. Do this constantly till the whole flooring is is completed; sealers are most successful when a single, sound layer is created by you should you distribute the work over a lot more than one with no seams that could develop. Allow the sealer to dry, generally about 2 4 hours, then utilize a second slim coat as-needed. Two-portion epoxy formulas need utilization of a blended batch for every single coat. The flooring ought to be ready for paint or carpet without dampness after drying for another 2-4 hrs.

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For those who have a bench all around your house you are scared to take a seat on because it is cracked, it can be repaired by you. From getting larger the repair should also quit the crack or split up. Benches are frequently exposed to climate and are susceptible to cracks. Repair them by utilizing an approach that requires a dutchman, like a specialist. No, maybe not a guy in the Netherlands, however a little piece of wood inserted with glue to the crack. Woodworkers happen to be using the dutchman to repair cracks for years.

Place the little bit of oak lumber on the bandsaw behind the blade. The encounter-grain needs to be facing up.

Hold the backend of the board by means of your hand. Hold the board down in front on the bandsaw table in your left hand supporting the blade together with thumb and your fingers. The aspect of your palm that is left should rest on the bandsaw fence.

Turn on the observed and drive the board ahead to the blade. Begin reducing wedges that are random . They to nothing. taper down need to range from 1/16 to 1/8 inch in front, and They need to range from 3 to 12″ long or longer. Cut at least 2 wedges. Make them lengths and thicknesses, tapered down into a paper edge. Taper a few of these on both ends. Flip it around when the board gets too slim in front and cut wedges in the end.

Place the wedges. Select a crack. Begin fitting an wedge to the crack. Do not force it. Find one that best suits the crack. When you discover one you like, sand it down to to match even better using a hand block and 100-grit sand-paper. Clip it off with pliers when it’s too lengthy. Continue sanding and fitting before the dutchman wedge is just a just a little also huge to fit to the crack.

Sand the bottom of the wedge length wise therefore that when it’s inserted to the crack length wise, the crack is dropped to by the edge, but the leading is nevertheless also broad.

Run huge bead of glue to the crack. Place the slim end-of the dutchman wedge to the crack. Tap it having a hammer so far as possible in the crack. Using pressure, hammer breaks off and the wedge down before the very best of it shatters. Continue before the wedge is flattened to the crack as well as the glue hammering is filled with glue and wedge particles. Let the glue dry for one hour.

Sand the wedge that is smashed off smooth to the the top of bench together with the hand-block. Repeat on all cracks.

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A home that is marketable is going to be symmetrical in a number of ways. Like, in case there are shutters on several windows all windows should be shuttered. Then all cupboard doors should have that same manage if some cupboard doors have a certain type manage. This rule holds true for inside doorknobs. A mish-mash of doorknobs will seem to the homebuyer, but the the inner doorways will all seem like elements of a set when every door knob is the same. Matching doorknobs might be a difficulty, nevertheless, especially on older houses with porcelain doorknobs. In case you use reproductions or in the event that you can see them available, they are able to be easily installed.

Determine the dimensions that is spindle on the door established in issue. The spindle is the axle which the doorknob connects to. Every porcelain door knob will possess a middle hole into. For correct installation, the middle hole as well as the spindle will match easily.

Loosen the attachment screw on the porcelain door knob. It’ll be located of the real knob, ahead on the physique of the knob. There is going to be a little setscrew.

Until it’s seated all of the way to the door-knob appropriate slide the door-knob on the spindle. The spindle needs to be somewhat free inserted but not so free when inside the door knob as to wobble straight back and forth.

Tighten down the setscrew on the physique of the door-knob. This will definitely create an optimistic contact involving the spindle and also the knob to ensure that when you change the door-knob, you are going to turn the spindle, as well as the latch keeping the door closed will be released by the spindle.

In the event the thickness of the spindle is significantly diffent with that of contemporary, standardized components apply several workarounds. A bigger-thickness antique spindle will not squeeze into a latch established hole that is contemporary, while an inferior spindle wont engage the latch that is contemporary a-T all. In case your porcelain door knob matches a -diameter spindle, you can nevertheless use a contemporary, spindle that is thinner. Just change the shorter setscrew in the physique of the door-knob to some one out. You may be in a position to locate a screw that is suitable at your nearby hardware-store. In case your porcelain door-knob utilizes an inferior-diameter spindle, it is possible to use a sort that is contemporary. Slightly grind down the diameter of the ends of a spindle that is contemporary to to reproduce spindle to small diameter of the antique. Request your nearby hardware-store if it gives this service should you not have a wheel.

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Insulation is important to maintaining your house heating and cooling expenses down. In the event you are renovating and including insulation that is new or attempting to weather-proof your attic or garage insulation is a beneficial and inexpensive option. Made of fiber glass using a -paper backing, insulation that is rolled is easy to cut using a utility knife. Keep the cut-lines as straight as possible so your walls can be butted together on by them.

Put on gloves, a dust mask, goggles and protective cover-alls. Should you not have cover-alls, use a long-sleeved shirt and long pants.

Measure the row involving the studs where you need to to put your insulation. Roll out the insulation like a garage flooring, on a flat flat work surface. Measure the insulation to the correct size.

Place the fringe of of a straight edge across the line-you need to reduce. As angled cuts may permit air to escape and damage the effectiveness of the insulation use a level to assure the line is straight. Try to compress the insulation as small as feasible as insulation that is slim does not safeguard your house from the the weather as well.

Cut through the insulation along your straight-edge, using a sharp utility knife. Slice repeatedly along the line before you cut through the -paper backing. Pull the insulation aside in the seam you developed. Cut any fibers which are connected.

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Lights around the ceiling to include a warm glow to your living space, porch or bedroom region. Choose from an assortment of design options including lights with paper shades, single-colour twinkling lights in all- all or white – strings or red of fat -inspired multi-color bulbs to to match the feeling you want to generate.

Attach the extension cord so you will be in a position to plug them in with no trail of lights extending the wall down.

Staple across the cord just just underneath the bulb without creating contact involving the staple as well as the cord. Start on one aspect of the ceiling and work your path across or create a shape like rectangle or a spiral to protect the ceiling.

Move the ladder to the area where you want the lights to create the next level of contact with all the ceiling. Create a graceful result.

Continue stapling the string of lights before you’re pleased with their look.

Plug to check the general result. Modify your style as required.

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Windows in cinderblock basements need a correct seal to avoid drafts and leakage, therefore conserving power charges. The seal around a window needs alternative and deteriorates over time. A unique silicone latex-based caulk especially designed to withstand weather is the appropriate caulk when sealing a basement window to use. Multiple shades of the caulk are accessible to match the colour of the window casing. The method requires around 10 minutes per window and is easy.

Remove broken or loose caulk using a putty knife in the seal round the basement window. Slide the conclusion of the putty knife underneath the caulk. Peal the caulk in the seal.

Wipe the area using a moist cloth to remove excessive particles.

Insert the silicone latex- caulk in the gun. Cut the tip at a 45-degree angle.

Place the cut suggestion in spite of the basement window seam. The gun needs to be tilted at a 45-degree angle to the window-frame.

Squeeze the trigger on the gun to extrude a type of caulk around 1/4 inch-wide . deep and While squeezing the trigger over the window seam pull the gun. When you reach the corner, stop. Repeat the procedure across the seams that are remaining.

Smooth the the top of caulk by means of your finger. Wet the tip of your finger. Begin of caulk in the conclusion of one line. Press your finger to the caulk and pull along to produce a U- . Wipe the excess caulk on a moist fabric. Repeat the procedure on every seam.

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