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(More customer reviews)My boyfriend and I are semi professional painters with a good number of years of experience. My boyfriend used to work for his brother's sheetrocking business. He is more experienced than me but I actually used the tape in this review. We make extra money on the side doing interior and exterior painting for rich fussy people. This was the first time I used this painting tape which I purchased at Home Depot. I decided to try this bc of the mixed reviews on the FrogTape. I used this tape to cut in the walls of 2 bathrooms and it worked great. The ceiling and wall joints were very uneven in these 2 bathrooms therefore making it a nightmare to try to cut in the wall paint. We tried it by hand and even though my boyfriend is very good at this, the results were very disappointing bc the ceiling sloped up and down along the wall so you couldn't use the ceiling as a reference point to keep the cut in line straight. PITA! I don't know about you but I can't keep a straight line going for 5-8 feet without having the ceiling as a reference point. So I decided to try this tape. The results were amazing! No bleed throughs at all and they were the straightest lines I've ever seen. This is how I did it. I started at one corner of the room using a 4 inch piece of tape which I creased in the middle and inserted it into the wall corner making sure the top part of the tape was about 1/16th from the ceiling. This was my reference point. I started placing 10 inch strips of tape in a straight line across the wall (remember the ceiling was sloping up and down along the wall). If I placed the tape wrong, which means it wasn't exactly straight in relation to the previous piece, it creased, letting me know I was off track and I had to take it off and try again. Not one bit of paint came off the wall when repositioning the piece of tape even though the wall paint was only 24hr dry. Now placing this tape was a PITA and took a long time but it was for a client and it needed to look really good. At the other end of the wall, I placed another 4 inch piece of tape, creased and inserted into the corner to set myself up for the next wall. I then made sure the last piece of tape I layed down matched up with this corner piece. Then I painted the ceiling paint onto the edge of the painter's tape. What I actually did was create an optical illusion that the ceiling was straight bc the line separating the ceiling and wall paint was so amazingly straight. It looked as though there was a 1/16th line of ceiling paint on the wall which gave a very crisp look.
I did find out 2 tricks to make sure you don't get bleed thru and to keep the line looking the straightest possible: 1) it may sound counter intuitive, but I found using strips 10-12 inches long worked best rather than a longer piece bc I was able to handle the tape more easily. It sticks to itself easily and can be a bit hard to handle when the piece of tape you are working with is too long. Make sure to overlap each piece of tape as you place it down by at least one inch. This technique was key in getting a straight line with the uneven ceiling and wall joints.2) After you get one wall done, take your fingernail and run it along the edge to be painted to get a tight seal.
Good luck!
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3/4" x 60 Yards, Scotch Blue Safe Release Painters Masking Tape, 60 Day Clean Removal, Medium Adhesion, Extra Crisp Paint Lines & No Bleed Through, Safe On Freshly Painted Surfaces.
