STOP Throwing Away Half-Used Dried-Up Caulk Tubes! How To Fix It To Last Forever!

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You can teach an old dog new tricks, I'm 69 years old and this young guy just taught me something new. Great lesson!

Congratulations. Finally someone with exceptionally communication skills and the ability to explain something in straight forward and plain language. Excellent instructor and instructive video. Thank you and keep up the great work.

I've also used wire nuts as caps for these types of tubes. Very easy and inexpensive to use!

For years I've been frustrated by leftover caulk drying up, even when I've used long nails, which sometimes rusts; I ordered some 3" long plastic golf tees and that solved my problem. I like that they work and they slide out of the caulk tube easily.

Folks like you make me really appreciate smart people. Thanks.

I use aluminum foil tape. This tape sticks really well to the soft plastic nozzle producing an air tight seal. This tape is made to seal metal ducting, and the adhesive sticks really well to plastic. I’ve left aluminum taped calk tabes for months without any problem. Best thing, it’s really cheap and requires no cleanup, just tear off another piece of tape.

Thank you so much for these solutions! I’ve battled dried out caulk tubes for many years.

Our suggestion is to use what my Dad taught us to go 1) Use a tight fitting screw to seal tubes for short term storage (a few days). 2) If long term storage is needed, we pack them in an old fridge that keeps them cold. Six months later, we can still use the tubes as new. Hope this simple idea helps someone out.

Here in the UK nearly all mastic tubes have screw on nozzles, so when one has dried out, you just change it for a new one. The dried out nozzle seals off the mastic inside the main tube and it could last for over a year on most tubes.

You just saved a bunch of space in our landfills. Thank you.

i just ordered the caulk caps feom Amazon. Thanks so much for showing us these and they are going to make my job a little easier. No more annoying clogged nozzles to clear.

Thank you for this video to show products to caulk storage problems. I didn’t know these products existed so this video is very helpful. Another idea is many years ago I ended up improvising using the seal n press plastic food wrap to keep my caulk from drying up and not used anything else since. It’s worked really well keeping the caulk from drying out for about 6months then the temperatures in the northeast USA affect it as I keep it in the basement. One thing - caulk is pronounced with a silent ’L’ in the USA. Otherwise this is a great video being clear concise and to the point. nice work!

Great video! Thank you! A couple comments on this topic to share here. 1- The blue painter tape your using has a porosity to it, pretty good for short term, but I would recommend clear packaging tape or a plastic based tape without a paper base to it. I paint professionally for some years and love the stuff, but clear would be better for long term storage. 2-Some caulks loose their ability to cure properly over time, I saved some caulk and used it years later and it FAILED to adhere the two plates together, it became a big project to remove all that caulk and then go buy new, so keep this in mind for the level of project your doing and if it's worth a possible compromised outcome. Yes, i said I had this caulk on the shelf for YEARS, if I can recall the brand and type I will update this comment. 3- Just an aside tip I learned from professional commercial glazers on my jobs, to save the old caulk tubes and use the back of the empty tube to give you a place to wipe the excess caulk off your finger or tool into the rear of the tube! Simple little trick many may do already, but it changed my projects for the better with this better way to manage the material and it's excess that can actually be re used in contrast to wiping on a paper towel and disposing of the excess caulking. Neatness is everything in caulking as you know! Again THANK YOU for the video! I will be purchasing both the products in the links and think of you often my friend! Ciao Vince

My dad owned a painting business in the 80s and 90s in Florida. When I go down to visit him he showed me a trick. Depending on how big of a hole you cut out of the tube. You get a wire nut and screw it on and just squirt just enough to seal that little end up inside the wire nut. I’ve been doing that for as long as I can remember. And just now a year and a half later I go out take the wire nut off squeeze the handle and look the tube still working properly.

You are one of the best, if not the best, presenter of home helper information. Thank you so much.

What a great video!! You have just saved homeowner-diy'ers (and probably pros, too) many hundreds of dollars. Thank you.

I push a couple dabs of vaseline down into the nozzle. Works every time, and haven't had it fail yet. Keeps it air tight.

I simply squeeze it a little bit out of the nozzle and let it dry. And later I just pull the dried part out of the nozzle and use it again. It works for me.

Great video! In a pinch, I have tunneled through the hardened caulk/Liquid Nails to allow the remaining good stuff to exit the tube. I used a drill bit that's about 4" long.