We've scoured the internet for untraditional ways people are using caulks or sealants for DIY projects around their home. These are the nearly interesting projects we came across. Take a look at the list beneath and allow the states know what you lot think? Have y'all tried any of them?

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Non-Skid Carpeting DIY

To increase the traction for your expanse rugs, many users recommend using a caulk or sealant.

  1. Only flip over your rug and apply beads of caulk that are most 6 inches or so apart. Some users were partial to acrylic-latex caulk where others swore by 100% silicone caulks or sealants.
  2. Let whichever caulk you choose dry and then flip your carpeting over and exam it out.

Many users say once the caulk dries, the rubbery strips will hold your rug in place.

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Custom Stamps

For those of you who are in need of a item postage stamp that is either hard to find or more than you want to pay, don't worry, with this DIY, yous can get in yourself. At that place are multiple ways to achieve this project, but the i that seems a little easier recommends using a squeeze tube of 100% silicone caulk or sealant and plexiglass.

  1. Simply take the 2nd image you would like to stamp, whether it is a drawing, simplistic photograph or text, and identify it under the plexiglass.
  2. Use your squeeze tube of 100% silicone to trace your preferred image onto the plexiglass.
  3. Later the silicone has stale, take a pocket-sized roller and scroll your desired paint color onto your stamp. Then have fun!

DIY Handbasket

If y'all are looking for a delicate basket with an intricately woven pattern, and so this may be the DIY project for you. We are not sure who came upwardly with this idea, but they were definitely thinking outside of the box.

  1. Have a basin that is the desired shape and lay information technology face down on a level surface.
  2. Cover the basin with clear plastic wrap.
  3. Using a cartridge of acrylic-latex caulk, create your desired pattern and permit the caulk dry out.
  4. Once the caulk is dry, gently remove it from the plastic wrap and paint the desired colour.

If you would rather the caulk already be your desired paint color, y'all can create a custom caulk with our Create-A-Color kit.

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Preserving Fragile Paper

This DIY came from a lover of sometime books and old newspapers. She was looking for a fashion to use information technology as an interesting element in projects merely needed a solution to overcoming the fragility of the paper. Her solution was 100% silicone caulk. Hither's what she did.

  1. Have your paper of pick and identify information technology onto of a scrap piece of paper to avoid getting the silicone on anything else.
  2. Clasp a heavy bead of 100% silicone caulk across the unabridged width of the top of the page.
  3. Take a direct piece of cardboard and squeegee the silicone downwardly the newspaper so that a sparse fifty-fifty layer of silicone covers the newspaper. Then permit the silicone dry.

This technique was said to preserve the pages and brand them flexible, waterproof and durable with a finished texture that feels like oilcloth. The DIYer used this technique to brand other projects. Yous can learn more here.

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Creating 3D Wall Art

The internet is flooded with DIY project that use caulks and sealants to create 3D wall fine art. This DIY projection is easy to customize and allows you to be equally creative every bit you desire.

  1. But accept a wall, canvas or whatever medium drew your heart creatively.
  2. Using a stencil, a pencil outline or any you lot prefer, draw your prototype with acrylic-latex caulk.
  3. Allow the caulk to dry and then paint if that's your desired finish result.

Simplify this projection by using colored caulk to achieve the desired end result with less painting. Need a custom color? No trouble. Learn how to create ane here.

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Silicone Tipped Bulbs

Silicone bulbs can definitely be an expensive decorative accent, simply if it'due south a must on your list, try this DIY to save some coin.

  1.  T est  each bulb to brand sure information technology works. Even if the bulb is new, y'all exercise non want to put work into a seedling and so find out it never worked.
  2. Warm the silicone earlier dipping. Heat an empty pan on your stove top to a warm medium setting. Turn the stove off. Lay a tube of silicone in the pan for three minutes. Remove the tube from the pan.
  3. Empty the silicone from the tube and squeeze the silicone into the throwaway bowl. Tap the bowl a few times to remove air bubbles, clasp more in and tap. Do not stir the silicone.
  4. Wrap two turns of the florist wire effectually the metal part of the bulb. Leave a two-inch tail of florist wire and prune. Bend the wire tail into a hook shape.
  5. Dip the seedling into the centre of the bowl filled with silicone. Make sure the entire bulb is covered, but do not cover any of the metallic part.
  6. Pull the bulb out of the silicone, using a twisting motion as you lot lift. This will assist the silicone form a ripple-blazon pattern. For a smooth surface pattern, lift the bulb out without twisting. Become slowly and even slow down as the tip of the bulb emerges. This volition assistance you create a long tip.
  7. Hang the bulbs spread out on the clothesline and so they tin dry for approximately three hours. Use the wire to hang it past. Do not impact the tip. It will lengthen as it dries.

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Decorative vino spectacles and jars

At that place are multiple DIY projects using wine spectacles and glass jars. Projects range from vacation themed snowmen to the highly intricate henna patterns. Regardless of what ornamentation you would like to create, grab your acrylic- latex caulk cartridge or squeeze tube and see where your creativity takes you lot. Some artists paint the canteen earlier applying the caulk, some paint after so that the caulk is merely a 3D element and some leave the glass clear and just let the caulk shine. The choice is yours.

Equally you lot tin can run into, there are plenty untraditional ways to creatively use caulks and sealants around your dwelling house. Grab a cartridge or clasp tube of a Red Devil caulk or sealant and see what you tin can create.

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