Doing an exterior paint job with quite a few windows on brick walls to do. The place is 40-ish and much of the glazing and caulk is shot, so I'm digging out old caulk along the brick moulds. What I'm faced with is often 1/2 - 5/8 inch gaps where the points of the moulding and bricks don't meet. There's no way to put a backer rod in there because it'll just fall into the cavity behind the brick veneer.
Somewhere along the line I came up with the idea (or learned from someone) to build up the caulk across a crack like this by running a bead on each surface, allowing those to dry and continuing until the gap is bridged. I've done this in the past and don't recall it failing on anything I've checked on later, but I feel quite sure that this is a dumb move and I'm looking for suggestions on how to do this better. I'll be doing 20 windows and I don't want a big liability.
Thanks,
rP
Somewhere along the line I came up with the idea (or learned from someone) to build up the caulk across a crack like this by running a bead on each surface, allowing those to dry and continuing until the gap is bridged. I've done this in the past and don't recall it failing on anything I've checked on later, but I feel quite sure that this is a dumb move and I'm looking for suggestions on how to do this better. I'll be doing 20 windows and I don't want a big liability.
Thanks,
rP
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