{"id":13978,"date":"2014-02-06T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2014-01-09T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:40:38","slug":"sashco-big-stretch-caulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/sashco-big-stretch-caulk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sashco Big Stretch Caulk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My uncle has been doing contracting work for 4 decades, and he turned me on to Big Stretch a while ago. It&#8217;s a great product for caulking around windows and door frames where you expect to see movement as the house moves and shifts around. It&#8217;s not designed for standing water or submersion scenarios &#8212; for that you want a silicone caulk or the <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/lexel-caulk\/\">previously reviewed Lexel<\/a>, but everywhere else I generally turn to Big Stretch. It&#8217;s easy to tool with your finger, it adheres really well, and it will stretch rather than tearing. It doesn&#8217;t get hard over time, it&#8217;s paintable, and it&#8217;s a delight to work with.  <\/p>\n<p>It comes in a variety of colors, although finding them at a local store can be tricky. The clear goes on milky and turns clear as it cures, which makes it easy to see how good your caulking job is while you&#8217;re doing it. It does well reusing a partial tube if you seal the nozzle well (either one of those red caps or some foil tape).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more expensive than other caulks, but if you look at the Amazon reviews you&#8217;ll see that the consensus is that it&#8217;s worth it. If you have trouble finding it, try finding the retailers in your community that supply contractors.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great caulk for things that move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13980,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions\/13980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}