Got A New Trick.

KellyPainting

Some might already know it, but I just learned it....(bought a crew of contruction guys coffee's 2day)... with winter and the cold months approaching...

Use a cooler to store your tubes of caulk in... just a plain old cooler... you can even get a big one and put cans of paint in it...leave it in the back of your truck or van when it's freezing and it will be fine thruout the whole season .. nothing will freeze.

Well, I thought it was cool anyways....

Mike Finley

It's a good idea. During the summer sometimes I will stick a tube of caulk in the refrigerator for about an hour before using it.

Richard

Cool! ....eye opener for me

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lornmastro

can you leave the paint in the cooler for days in the winter and not have it freeze??

ron schenker

Is there still enough room for your lunch?

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Don't worry, the baseboard will hide it!

hangit

one i heard for keeping paste (suppose it could work with paint) from freezing in your van overnight was to place your fives in a circle, run a drop light with a 50watt bulb from the house and place it in the middle of the fives, then throw a drop over everything. i've never tried it, sounds like it would work tho.

erik edlund

Hey Mike F.,

This is new information for me.

I thought "warming" the tube gave you better flow, (we've always warmed our tubes on a heater vent),but have you found "chilling" it gives better "workability"?

Does your method apply to caulk AND silicone?

Shoot us a reply, we'd all like to know...

P.S. Is that a real dog getting vacuumed? Odd, the head looks Photoshopped. BTW, we used to vacuum our flat-coat retriever, she enjoyed it also...

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AFI

Nice tip but, I prefer beers on the cooler instead caulking.

Just kidding I'm on South Florida.

Art

Mike Finley

I've found a lot of latex caulks that we use if they get too warm they flow too much. So a quick chill gives them more solidity (is that a word?) and returns them to a better consistancy that is easier to work with. Not sure about silicone, we use very, very little silicone caulks.

Whether you're warming or cooling the caulk, I think it is all the same, you want it back at the ideal temp so it performs as it was expected by the manufacturer.

As far as I know our dog is real. His poop smells real!

copusbuilder

Here in Texas we use coolers to keep our paint and caulking cool!

Still trying to find a way to stop sweat from dripping in the paint can when it 95 outside

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