Customer Reviews for Custom Building Products Commercial #186 Khaki 10.1 oz. Silicone Caulk

This grout is really easy to apply and looks great.

Worked great. After cutting the tip, you have to insert something down into the tube to break the seal. I used soap/water mixture and my finger to smooth out the bead. The color matched the platinum grout color perfectly!

This product is good to have to seal areas in a new tile shower that might be prone to leaks in the distant future, particularly corners and around the base. A good companion to the boxed powdered grout.

I had grout/caulk in my new shower molding after only a few months. I cut out all the grout and silicone and replaced it with this product. The positive is it looks great with my honed marble tile. The bad - after only 2 months - where we squeegee the water off, have mold. So frustrating!

I paid extra for this because it seemingly matched my butcher block counter, it’s not even close to the label or what’s on the website.

I’ve never seen a caulk separate and crack so quickly, especially for the price. Completely redid my bathroom a little over 2 years ago. I was SO happy with how this product looked, and appeared to be great quality, but now, in less than 3 years, I’m going to have to remove it all and redo. As shown in the photos, it’s completely separated from the surface of the tub and has cracked significantly. I paid for the more expensive silicone option, figuring it would last longer, but it’s trash.

Use this product if you do not care what the final results look like whatsoever. Clear silicone is much easier to form and smooth. Silicone grout is much easier to form and smooth. This crap is horrible. I know what good silicone grout works like. Do not use this product if you thought you'd get a color match either. It is so far away in color from the charcoal from the same grout manufacturer it's absurd

Great choice in color matching durability is excellent

Caulk was easy to apply and clean up. Material match was identical to grout.

Shower tiled 9/30, dry until plumber installed showerhead 11/4 (over 1 month to cure). As of 11/10 cracks everywhere. Also, still wet and sticky, leaves brown mess on finger if touched. Only 41 days old. Only 1 day wet. Pitiful. Should not be sold.

I purchased two tubes and both were unusable. All the caulking exploded out the bottom ruining my caulk gun. I wont be using anything from this brand again.

I wanted matching caulk for my Custom Building Products platinum Prism grout and read the reviews of people saying it doesnt match. I went with it anyway and i’m really happy with how it matches. Maybe it’s other colors that don’t match as well, but this one turned out really nice in my opinion.

This stuff is great! I decided to use this to seal around edges and between seems for the new vinyl flooring we installed in our travel trailer. It matched very well, application was easy and clean up as well. I highly recommend!

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Used this product to seal where the backsplash meets the granite countertop. Old non-sanded grout cracking.

I have nothing to compare this to as this was my first time caulking anything! After googling how to do it, I removed the old caulk and cleaned it. Then I taped the area. After I applied the caulk, which came out very smoothly, I smoothed with my (gloved) finger and removed the tape. Not much caulk pulled away but I smoothed again anyway. I had paper towels at the ready but didn't need to use too many. The only thing I wish I had done was have a garbage ready for when I removed the tape. It looks great! I'm very happy with this product.

While this sealant seems expensive, over time it has been proven to be worth every cent. We live in a manufactured home and there is some "give" in some areas of our floors. The fireplace hearth tile butts against Pergo flooring and the sealant in the joint between the hearth and the Pergo would crack in a very short period of time. We had tried a couple different "cheaper" products and finally just gave up and lived with the cracks. In 2019 we had the raised hearth replaced with porcelain tile to eliminate a tripping hazard. With the installation of the porcelain tile we did some research, and found this product and have never looked back. We used this sealant in September 2019 and the attached picture is from today. No cracks. Great seal. Looks great!

Bought this from Home Depot to match my grout, and it’s getting mold in the first year. See pics. Maybe worst silicone sealer I’ve ever used.

Good color match to the grout from the same manufacturer. Skins over very quickly compared to other silicone caulks I've used. If you make a mistake tooling it, and it's been longer than about 60 seconds, you have to scrape it all out and reapply.

The caulk I bought at the Arvada Home Depot was long past its expiration date. I did quiz the person who brought the item to curbside pickup when I saw that the lot number had 2014 in it, but the clerk didn't know. A call the next day to the manufacturer confirmed my suspicions. The Custom Building Products rep said 2014 was indeed the manufacture date and that the silicone caulk I bought was best-used within 18 months of that date. Otherwise, it doesn't set up right. Why was this 6 year old product even on the shelf? I had to return it and get another tube, which delayed my bathroom project. The Home Depot needs to get on top of quality control! I've had other issues with this store putting returned items back on the shelf without even looking at them, which is what I suspect happened here. I liked this caulk, though not its high price, and certainly not my experience at the Arvada store. I will be shopping elsewhere in the future.

We had our deck tiled. The contactor could not stop it from leaking everytime it rained. It was unfortunate that after making sure that we pick tiles that have higher non-slip rating, they ended up using polyurethane coat on it to seal the cracks. It still leaked. A lot! They have not come back to fix it so my husbad did research and found this product. We meticulously taped every single grout line and applied the caulking, smoothed it out with a flat plastic spatula and peeled the tape right away and let it cure for 24 hours. We used a hose to get the deck “flooded” to check for leaks and OMG it was dry underneath! It was so worth the effort of taping and sealing. I just hope it is durable and lasts.

Overall this product is a good match for the poly blend non-sanded grout in the color Delorean, a little darker but works for me. Consistency of the product is like peanut butter, so using tape and glass cleaner (amonia free) are key for the application of this product. Tape off all areas, apply caulk, and smooth out once before removing the tape. Remove the tape, spray with glass cleaner, then smooth out a second time. I waited five minutes then sprayed again with a glass cleaner, and smooth out any bumps or imperfections for the last time. Looks good.

As close to a perfect color considering one is basically concrete and the other is silicone caulk. easy to apply. A trick I use for a super neat joint is to line the joint to be filled with masking tape. Then apply the silicone caulk making sure you fill the joint then wipe joint smooth with disposable blue gloves the slowly remove the tape. a perfect joint!!!

Ordered this manufacturers #45 summer wheat grout, as well, for grout and caulk match. Not even close. Now have darker caulk and will need to strip out and re-do.

Excellent color match with non-sanded grout of same color (Linen). Easy to work with, meaning it has a 10 minute work time before it starts to get tacky and starts to form a skin.

Searched the web looking for non-sanded silicone caulk to match my existing sanded tile grout. I used this silicone caulk to caulk around the sinks in my bathroom overhaul. I also used it on the corners of the tile joints in order to reduce the sharp edges. It seems a little harder to work with than regular silicone caulk but it still came out really nice. For the final touches of any tile job where the silicone caulk needs to match the tile grout, this is the way to go. On the down side, it is a little expensive but worth the cost for a job well done.

This product is great and applied as simply as regular silicon caulk. I used it to hide imperfections with my tile job using Fusion Pro Grout #60 Charcoal and it matched perfectly.

Great product for corners/seams of wet tile projects like showers, baths, etc. Recommend taping off area prior to application to provide a crisp, clean finish - be sure to clean/prep site to ensure maximum adhesion to tile. Great color match to Fusion Pro polymer grout.

This was a remove old caulk and re-caulk walls and floor. This product works as advertised. Use as directed on instructions. If you are like me ( non-professional ) do it your self-er you would be better served to watch various you tube videos on how to best apply this product. You only get one shot at it. I chose to tape my shower walls and use 3/8" backer rod to fill in space behind shower tile. What I did not expect was after applying and after peeling tape off tile walls and floor was the size of the ridge the tape left after peeling. I am guessing this was my bad too much caulk in the first place? It is recommended that you wet your finger and run your wet finger down the applied caulk to smooth out the ridges left after peeling the tape off... This action caused the caulk to spread out unevenly. I am sure the pro's could do this without tape and quickly using their finger only. Not super pretty but effective and water tight. Not bad for a first timer. Preparation of removing old caulk and cleaning tile prior to applying new caulk was also important. tedious work and a lot of scraped knuckles. End result I am please with this job and product. I had ordered two tubes but one tube completed the entire job. The large area at the bottom of shower where wall meets floor required backing rod as there was a large space between wall tile and floor tile.