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If you are a homeowner and you hire someone to do work in your bathroom near or around the shower or vanity area or the kitchen counter area and that "person" uses a silicone-based caulk you should make sure it says on the tube of caulk that is paintable. 

Because if it's not and you hire this company to paint those areas the price goes up because you can't paint over silicone-based caulk! Besides not being able to paint over it trying to remove it is time-consuming.

I am running into unpaintable silicone-based caulk all the time these days. And because sometimes it's a clear caulk you don't know it until you start painting over it and then all production stops because you have to fix it.

Sometimes it's a white silicone-based caulk like I had run into on a recent bathroom job. Couldn't paint over it. It looked like regular white paintable caulk. 

Work came to a halt.

So if I come to your home or business and have to deal with a silicone-based caulk that shouldn't have been used then the paint job price goes up.

And because I'm running into this problem more and more these days it's the first thing I look for when quoting a kitchen or bathroom job.

The lesson here is don't ever use an unpaintable silicone-based caulk anywhere where the paint will have to come in contact with it. 

Unless you don't mind paying more for your paint job.

This is the best all-around caulk for any project.

https://www.dap.com/products-projects/product-categories/caulks-sealants/latex/alex-plus/

Bath Fitters using clear pure silicone caulking.

 

This is what to expect from a Bath Fitter bathroom renovation. They use a pure clear silicone caulk all around that starts to deteriorate in just a few years. It looks good at first. 

As a professional interior painter who paints a lot of bathrooms, I have come across this scenario many times over the years.

When Bath Fitters first apply the pure silicone caulk it looks fine but after a few years, this is what it looks like. Always!

When I have to paint a Bath Fitter bathroom I charge much more because of this. Pure silicone caulk should never be used where there will be paint. PAINT DOES NOT STICK TO IT. "Dap" makes a paintable silicone caulk but Bath Fitters has not heard of it. Unfortunately for the homeowner who has to live with the results and pay more later to have their bathroom repainted

Before painting a Bath Fitter bathroom all the pure silicone caulking has to be removed and re-caulked with paintable caulk. 

Re-moving deteriorating pure silicone caulk is a nightmare. It only comes off in small rubbery pieces. Then when you think you got it all removed and you start painting you find that there is still some leftover that you couldn't see because it is PURE SILICONE CAULKING. Thank-you Bath Fitters. For Nothing!

This is what the homeowners have to look at whenever they sit on the toilet.

Deteriorating pure clear silicone caulking. Nice job Bath Fitters!