Prepping to paint your walls a new shade? While you may understand how essential priming is when it comes to hiding the imperfections in the wall, an oft-forgotten step of equal importance is caulking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contractor using a caulking gun along a baseboard - Aquaarts Studio/Getty Images When you think of a home renovation project, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Danielle from Altamonte Springs told us her puppy chewed up the corner of her baseboards in her living room. We told her: “No problem!” Remove old nails from the wall that were used to ...

Q. Can you tell me how to caulk baseboards? I thought my new paint job was looking great until all sorts of black lines showed up where there were gaps between the baseboard woodwork and the walls. I ...

Note: For less flexible baseboard, the best solution is to simply fill any gaps with caulk. Select a premium acrylic latex caulk ($3-plus per tube) that says “paintable” on the label. Force the caulk ...