It seems I am forever recaulking my shower and bathtub. I have used DAP and silicone products with poor results. The DAP products shrink and crack and the silicone is a pain to clean up. Both seem to ...

Bathtub caulk is more than just a place to grow mildew. A well-placed bead of caulk keeps water from seeping behind the tub and ruining the floor and walls. If the caulk around your tub is cracked, ...

On your list of “Fun Things to Do This Weekend,” caulking your bathtub probably isn’t one of them. However, this home maintenance chore is essential. “Caulk prevents water from going into the cracks ...

There’s nothing quite like a steamy shower to rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit after a good night’s sleep or a long, hard day. But when the caulk around your enclosure begins to crack and ...

Q: My landlord’s novice repair person caulked around the bathtub — twice. Both times, the caulk pulled away from the wall. Why? And what’s the right way to do it? A: New caulk doesn’t stick well to ...

Question: We rent a home with a fiberglass bathtub. The shower portion or the wall above the bath is thicker than the rim of the tub and creates an inverted shelf that the water runs into. The ...

Reader Beacham Hoyle says he was able to clean soot from fireplace bricks with hydrogen peroxide. Hoyle says he sprayed the peroxide on dirty bricks and “the black stuff just rolled down. It also ...

If that weekend project list keeps getting longer, here’s something that just got easier to cross off: re-caulking the bathtub. General Electric offers a line of disposable, one-time-use Caulk Singles ...

College basketball season is great for my house. I find all kinds of repair jobs to keep me indoors, near a TV. Sometimes I imagine sportscaster Dick Vitale is talking about me when he yells, “You ...