Hard Caulk Pics!

[space-time]

You guys asked for pictures last night.

I managed to make some progress tonight. I bought a better pair of protection goggles (this stuff is flying like pieces of glass all over the place) and in about 45 minutes I cleaned up the entire length of the tub, now I need to do the ends and after that I shall caulk. I don't have time to finish tonight since the kids are sleeping and I am not allowed to hammer.

but here is the picture. This stuff is almost like china, hard and brittle. sometimes there is a section of maybe 1/2" that is a little softer, but most sections are hard.

sorry about the white balance, I set the camera to Tungsten but I guess it still didn't come out right.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6343/img3970j.jpg

[Markintosh]

So what's the white stuff in your hard caulk pics?

:wink:

[davester]

Looks like someone had a "brighter idea" and installed something instead of caulk.

[tenders]

I bet that's grout with less than the recommended amount of sand in it--not caulk.

[JoeH]

If there are soft areas, then I am betting on old style caulking that hardened over the years. Not vinyl, acrylic latex or silicone caulk.

[space-time]

they're not really soft ares. maybe not as hard as the rest of the damn thing.

[Black]

I can't tell anything from that pic.

[Mac1337]

space-time wrote:
I don't have time to finish tonight since the kids are sleeping and I am not allowed to hammer.

But isn't that precisely the time TO hammer?

[RAMd®d]

It looks to me like the caulk was applied by a male in his mid-forties, left-handed, probably with a mild heart condition, and definitely being divorced by his wife.

Pretty obvious there's a history of drug abuse starting in his senior- no- junior year of high school. He also committed suicide on his fiftieth birthday.

I can't tell any more without better white balance.

[lafinfil]

Whatever it is, it's poorly done

Continue blasting it out and take no prisoners !