My exterior windows need re-caulking - help!

Can anyone recommend a company who can re-caulk all of my brownstone exterior back windows? I think these windows are older than 25 years but still work – they just need sealing where the concrete meets the metal frames.

find a really good painter. you want a painter though, someone who is committed and can converse to you about the process involved and can talk to you about three or four different brand of caulks. i am serious about this – i see some guys using DAP and i know they are not pros. phenoseal is my go to. my boss years ago swore by GE silicone (which if you call their technical support line, you will learn is not owned by GE; a serious painter who has been doing this for years, using all these products might know that trivial fact). there is a caulk that HD sells in a brown tube with a long applicator on it – i do not know the name of it. i use it in the winter because it can be applied in freezing weather – someone who is up to their arms in this stuff should know all of these.

do not let someone’s inability to communicate fool you. if they have been doing this for years, and it takes years to learn how to do this and know the products (especially since not every painting job includes caulking and definitely not exterior caulking) and selling these jobs, t hey will have found away to name certain products and converse. if they cannot converse, they have not been doing this long enough to know about it; they are someone’s “helper” trying to make a go of it on their own.

you want to know they will remove loose debris from the brick or whatever and pull old caulk out. you do not want them going over the old caulk unless they can absolutely not removed it or is is so deep in side. they have to use the knife to knock old caulk of the surrounding brick.

putting up ladders? check their insurance. anyone committed to something like this will carry insurance. if they do not have it, do not hire them because if they do not have it they are “fly by nights” and will move on to other low hanging fruit tomorrow, whatever that may be. NO INSURANCE, NO HIRE.

be forewarned. a guy came on here about a year ago. he gave two miscreants $1600 to caulk his windows. they were at his house for 3 hours and he posted pictures of their work and it was horrible. caulking should not only seal but it should look good (that is sometimes easier said than done on this old stuff but we have to make the effort). DO NOT PAY THE PEOPLE YOU HIRE UNTIL AFTER YOU INSPECT THE JOB, EVERY WINDOW. there are a lot of legitimate contractors out there who would have loved to have done that man’s job and had that 1600 and would have either spent a full day on it with two people or spent two days on it alone. if they do not do the job correctly, do not pay them.

there are a lot of crooked people and bottom feeders out there. if we would work together to make it harder for them to survive, they will move on to other things and the homeowners and legitimate contractors will all be happier.

there are people posting on here now about having cornices painted. one of the contractors doing that work is someone you should call.