Traditional caulking materials used fibres of cotton and oakum and were administered with a caulking mallet and a caulking iron. In modern terms, caulking is usually used in the building trade and ...

Just be careful. You want to use real, 100-per-cent silicone caulking, not one of the new “siliconized” caulkings that are out there. They won’t work nearly as well in this application.

Mr Turpin, the owner of these caulking tools, was a local traditional boat builder. Demand for trading vessels like schooners increased in the 19th century when much of Cornwall's mineral wealth ...

Traditional caulking materials used fibres of cotton and oakum and were administered with a caulking mallet and a caulking iron. In modern terms, caulking is usually used in the building trade and ...