I am looking for colored caulk or ways to color caulk. I saw an article a while back on it if any body can refresh my memory that would be great!
Blues
I am looking for colored caulk or ways to color caulk. I saw an article a while back on it if any body can refresh my memory that would be great!
Blues
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Pecora has a long line of colored caulks and your locl cabinet supply shop will too...
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"I am looking for colored caulk or ways to color caulk."
BluesHound,
One of the myriad of tasks I have to perform where I work is dyeing "stuff" (usually resins).
Virtually all the dye I use are aniline based. Caulking tubes are easily available empty BTW, and I can give you sources.
But depending on how close the match you are looking for.........blending can get very tricky. You can get very close, try to get a tad closer, and boom, overshoot. Then have to resort to dilution...Oh, and some can change color as they cure.
But I know what you mean, just yesterday I blended up some light red oak colored filler for a staircase I'm rebuilding.
The stuff on the right is what I blended, the middle was sold as "light oak", and the stuff at the end as "red oak"
Jon
Edit: I MEANT LEFT not right....That was embarrasing. started off as white.
Edited 5/13/2004 12:59 pm ET by WorkshopJon
See above edit. How come you didn't call me on that one? Geez.
Jon
If you're doing something like a counter, start with latex caulk. If you can start with one which is colored somewhat like you want, you have less work. Squeeze a bunch out on to a board. Color it with universal colorants. These are pigments (in bottles) available in any good paint store, intended to color paint. Add only a few drops at a time and mix thoroughly. You may have to use several pigments to get the effect you want. After you get the correct color, wipe the caulk into your joints. With a wet rag or sponge, tool it like you'd do to grout.
forget where I saw it, but someone makes a re-fillable cailk tube..I often use syringes from a vet..bigguns for cattle and such..lighweight spackle and waterbased tints works like a dream..
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Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations.
"but someone makes a re-fillable cailk tube.."
Sphere,
Not to razzle you, but time IS money to some. Depending on how big a purchase, an empty tube costs anywhere from $2.00 to 25 cents. In this country, with the cost of labor, how could one ever justify cleaning one out?
Sad but true.
Jon
coupla points..a refillable tube may be misleading, maybe a disposable fillable tube..at a buck or two I'd buy a few..
the syringe I had used I dont clean out, just cap it with a wire nut and ele. tape. The mix stays useable for quite awhile..I was doing a staple up cardboard cieling, the 12x12 tiles..had to fill a few face staples and it was an off white..worked like a dream.
I also use the buffalo needles for glue, same deal leave em filled..and cap well.
I should tell the story about a carp. I knew who filled a coworkers glue tube with the coworkers own excrement, that he always deposited in the basement before a pour..while he was at his liquid lunch, this guy took his glue tube and did that. Afthe lunch the guy comes back to subflooring and squirts out a bead,, see's it and says "what the..?' swipes a gob on his finger and SNIFFS it...then puked. Never crapped ina basement again.
so at times it may be worth cleaning one out..
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Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations.
Never used it, but Red Devil is advertizing "Create-A-Color" caulking.
http://www.reddevil.com/products.cfm