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My cinder block and stucco house has plenty of prior caulk, plus new holes that I’ve exposed or created by moving around attached stuff.
On all of those I just mix up a small amount of mortar to patch the holes or the gaps, then paint, such as shown in my gable vent restoration, instead of using caulk. Part of that is sometimes using my small stainless bristle stiff “toothbrush” to remove old caulk.
IMO mortar would have been a better selection than caulk between that vertical brick gap.
Cool tool though…
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