Thread 2948488

Never used caulk before, I need to caulk a small room with a small bathroom and small closet. All rooms have picrel baseboard/floor, how much caulk would I need and should I use white to match the baseboard or grey to match the floor.

>11x9 room
>7x6 bathroom
>5x2ish closet

This particular image isn't the best example for proving I need to caulk, its mainly for asking if I should use white or gray

>>2948488 (OP)
use white and finger it and use as much ad you need like just cut a hole in the tip and u you can get a feel for it with it if its putting out too much put less and if its not enough put more its basically enough to seal the edge and create a concave edge

You can maybe use clear too but i would just use gray

>>2948488 (OP)
don't caulk baseboard to the floor it will crack and look like shit

>>2948506
>i would just use gray
Whoops meant to say white

First of all sqtddtot

Use white paintable dap with a silicone gun, not the loose tube. Painters tape a clean line, pull a thin bead. After a few hours paint it, then pull the tape. Buy two tubes and return what you don’t need. If you are doing the shower tiles use silicone, not dap.

>>2948488 (OP)
Why would you caulk where the baseboard meets the floor?

>>2948488 (OP)
>how much
RTFM; caulk tubes often have a listed estimate of how many linear feet you'll get from the tube for a given bead size. Add the length and width of a room together and then double it to get the perimeter, that's about how many linear feet of caulk you need for one bead around that room. If in doubt just buy an extra tube or three over your total estimate since the shit's cheap and always useful eventually.
>what color
Match the baseboard. Regardless of if you're caulking the top, bottom, or both the caulk matched to the trim will make it look like the trim seamlessly flows from floor to wall. If you try to color match the floor you probably won't actually be able to and with wood/faux wood you won't get the woodgrain pattern (if pic related at all) either so it'll just look retarded.

>>2948488 (OP)
I did it with 7 inches and a few tubes

Seriously? Dap latex caulk is $1.44 a tube. Caulk all the trim-to-wall joints and any trim-to-trim joints like casing to jamb. Chase it with a finger or damp rag. Latex is the most forgiving caulking imaginable.

>>2948488 (OP)
To caulk the top of the baseboards and fill and holes, for all that you’d need less than one tube.

I can’t even run a bead small enough on the top of the baseboard so-as there’s no wastage.
Cut the tip opening so it’s tiny, like 1/16”
Wastage from pulling the bead flat with your finger goes into filling the nail holes.

I also take a wet rag and clean off the area I’m going to do. While still damp, I lay down the bead and the use my finger to smooth it out, and then once-over it with the rag again.

Warning: if you’re new at this, and you do too much at once, you can literally wear a hole in the skin of your soft pale finger.