Dear Tim: Can you tell me how to caulk baseboards? I thought my new paint job was looking great until all sorts of black lines showed up where there were gaps between the baseboard woodwork and the ...

If you're noticing a gap between walls or a crack in the caulk around your window, you may be wondering what's caused it.

JUST WHEN we thought there wasn’t anything more we could say about caulk, we get a letter from a reader in Queenstown with a caulking question we can’t answer. “I have cedar siding on my home,” he ...

A coat of paint won’t fill or hide cracks, chips and other surface defects in the wood, and it won’t smooth an existing rough surface. Wood prep is 95 percent of a good painting job, and the first ...

Possibly the most valuable skill a homeowner can have is the ability to caulk. More specifically, the ability to caulk properly. Shower surrounds and shower doors rely on caulk to keep water inside.