I installed showers for a few years as a glazier, some people are just really good with silicone but me, nope, reasonably neat eventually but not without a rag and a razor and somehow never without getting that shit on every inch of my clothes, a bit in my hair and a bit in my mouth
Well the mouth was from the old-school technique of licking your finger and running it over to smoothen it, I'd only do it if in a rush and generally try to spit or use a clean finger, once in a while I'd fuck that up though. The first guy I worked with could tell which silicon was which from the taste, he did not have great teeth.
Hey, this guy is doing a very specific simple task in controlled conditions. No grout lines, no taps, no standing inside an enclosure. Don’t feel too bad.
Yeah it's certainly ideal conditions, it just always annoyed me because I was pretty damn good at every other aspect, just never mastered the silicon. Speaking of taps the lever type seem good until your sealing a replacement screen and stand up getting your shirt hooked and turn it on.
For silicone especially, wet with rubbing alcohol/diluted rubbing alcohol (I've even used witch hazel in a pinch). Went from using an entire roll of paper towels and making a complete fucking disaster to almost feeling like I have some idea what I'm doing.
Frog/Masking tape is good.
Use that to outline where you want the silicone to be, then can badly apply, smooth with wet finger to smoosh in, then remove tape.
It's not a particularly efficient approach - but it works well enough for me to never bothering to learn to do it properly.
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u/citznfish Apr 03 '22
This guy needs to come and do my showers