Best Caulking for Installing Windows

Hey guys, Sean with American Window Concepts. And in this video, I'm gonna show you the types of caulking that we use, and it's specifically for vinyl windows, doors. The first thing I wanna show you, our Max Shield All-Weather, and it's clear. Now, the clear caulking I like to use for our primary seal, which is gonna be underneath the retrofin flange itself, and it's on the main frame. So, the reason I use clear for that is because this has a higher stretch rate than anything else. So, this can stretch 900% when it's dry. So, 900% of the caulking line itself can actually stretch. So, what that's gonna do is it's gonna prevent seal failures in the future, as far as from the retroflange water coming in, this is gonna protect against the water intrusion when it's rainy or you're washing your window down. So, you're gonna always see me using this underneath where you will never see, but this is gonna hold up to all weather, and it stretches 900%. The other, we use this on the outside and on the inside. Now, this is a Max Shield also, but it's white. Now, the most work that we do is like 95% white frames, inside and out. So, we get a lot of this stuff. This has a stretchability rate of 800%, and it's paintable. This is a siliconized acrylic, so it's water-based. So, you're able to use the painter's techniques where they're using moist sponges, and then you're able to make sure you have extremely clean caulking lines using this stuff here. One of our attributes to the business is our caulking lines, our finished look. This stuff is amazing. This here, you can get this at Lowe's Home Depot. This is what we use for our doors. So, if you're gonna replace a door and you're gonna put a new door in, you have to line the bottom underneath the track with plenty of this, liquid nails. Now, what this does is make sure that the support underneath that door frame is not floppy. It's not gonna move around on you. It's secured to the concrete or subfloor where that door is sitting on. You must, must apply this under the sill pan, over the sill pan, and ultimately your door right on top. And we'll do a video in the future of how to install a door the way we do it, which is the right way. Our EcoFlex 9500. Now, this stuff here is polyurethane, and it's a hybrid polyurethane. This stretches really, really well, specific for windows and doors, vinyl windows and doors. So, this has a great, great stretchability rate. It's going to not shrink on you. It's paintable. And this here is just a fantastic, if you live in an area where you get a lot of rain or something like that, you wanna use this because this is not gonna break down on you at all. None of these will either, but this is just, this is like your insurance card. Like this right here is just gonna last you for a very, very long time. You can go to Lowe's, Home Depot, different Ace Hardwares places and buy caulking, but make sure that if you're gonna get caulking for a vinyl window, that you get great caulking. Don't go cheap on it because, you know, it'll split, you know, and you wanna have something that has the ability to stretch really, really well, at least 500%. I mean, that's at bare minimum, you know, and we're going 900%. Keep your eye on things like that and make sure that it's true to window and door. You know, you don't wanna have anything that's, you don't wanna use this for the exteriors and interiors and things like that. It's just not gonna work for you, not on a window install. Underneath a door, on the concrete, yes, but not to pin a window. You would use these or these, right, to install your window. Just be careful if you're gonna get caulking, make sure that it's very specific to the job, type of window that you're using. We do primarily vinyl windows, and so this is gonna be our caulking that we use. If you live in the Ventura, Santa Barbara, West LA area, and you're in need of some new vinyl windows, and you would be interested in an estimate, just reach out to us, go to our website, scroll down, click the request for a quote, and then we'll respond to you in about 24 hours. Thank you so much. Hey guys, thanks again for watching this video. If you wanna be kept updated on new videos that are coming out, just hit that like button and subscribe to the channel. Thank you so much.