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Mask Windows and Doors

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2 Day Home Repaint. Exterior Painting Fast.

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What happens here

Begin by masking the windows on the exterior of the house using a 3M hand masker. Load the hand masker with blue painter's tape attached to plastic sheeting. Extend the plastic sheeting to cover the entire window glass and frame, securing the edges firmly with the tape to prevent overspray onto the glass or window frame. Ensure that the tape adheres well, especially in cooler weather, to maintain clean lines. Repeat this process for all windows and any other areas that need protection, such as doors or light fixtures.

Goal: Protect windows and doors from paint overspray.

Tools and materials

  • 1-inch Tape — Masking around smaller details or specific edges
  • 1.5-inch Tape — Masking around larger details or wider edges
  • 3M Hand Masker 3M — Applying painter's tape with attached plastic sheeting
  • 9-inch paper — Masking the bottom of doors and around fixtures
  • Blue Painter's Tape 3M — Securing plastic sheeting and creating clean paint lines
  • Plastic Sheeting 3M — Protecting window glass and door surfaces from overspray

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work so let's go so it is cooling off drastically here in boise idaho treasure valley and some of the challenges to when the weather starts to cool off is masking starts to not stick as well um you have uh you know humid weather that causes the tape not to stick very good so that's part of the challenges also paint you know not drying very fast that becomes a challenge also and so if you got overlapping colors and stuff it starts to make the painting process a little bit more difficult um i've got kind of like overlapping colors you'll get some overspray on this trim here and stuff and it has to dry before you can start trimming out but today is going to be a warm enough day that i shouldn't have an issue with that after today temperatures are going to be dropping and i think this is going to be the last exterior project for the season but i've just had somebody ask me today on my social media yo they needed to get some painting done on their house they were doing it themselves and they said what's the temperature have to be to be able to paint and for me once the outside temperatures get below 40 degrees at night i quit painting outside now paints will dry down to most modern paints these days will dry down to 34 degrees but it's not ideal conditions to paint and weather like that and i think that's kind of a drastic measure you know if a house was going up for sale or something you know you could um do that but the ambient temperature of the surface is probably going to be colder than the outside temperature which could end up causing you problems so what's more important than the outside temperature is the surface temperature of what you're actually painting so that would be the ambient temperature of your surface so um if it's metal typically the metal is going to be colder than even the outside temperature had a lot of time so you got to be really careful i carry a um infrared thermometer that i can test the temperatures of the surface what i'm painting by shooting a laser it's a laser thermometer i do have uh some videos on masking tips i've got my last solo series i did a whole video with a lot of masking tips if you want to get some tips and tricks on you know how to mask an exterior fast and easy go back and watch that video it's a lot of helpful helpful tricks when it comes to masking and masking fast but i typically in my vans i don't when it comes to the masking i carry two sizes of tape i carry one inch tape and i also carry inch and a half…

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