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Masking Floors with Tape and Paper

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3 Steps to PERFECT TRIM! Prepping to SPRAY

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What happens here

Begin by applying 1.5-inch blue FrogTape along the bottom edge of the baseboards, ensuring it's pressed firmly and tightly against the trim so no floor surface is visible between the baseboard and the tape. In corners or for intricate cuts, use a 5-in-1 tool or utility knife to achieve precise edges. Next, load a roll of 9-inch masking paper and a roll of painter's tape (e.g., 1-inch tape) onto a hand masker. Align the tape from the hand masker with the outer edge of the already applied FrogTape on the floor, allowing the masking paper to unfold and cover the floor. To prevent the masking paper from lifting due to the force of paint spraying, use small pieces of orange painter's tape to tack down the paper to the floor at regular intervals.

Goal: Protect floors from paint and overspray with precise masking.

Tools and materials

  • 5-in-1 Tool — Trimming tape in corners and tight spaces
  • FrogTape FrogTape — Creating sharp paint lines along the baseboards
  • Hand Masker — Applying masking paper and tape simultaneously
  • Masking Paper — Protecting the floor from paint overspray
  • Painter's Tape — Tacking down masking paper to prevent lifting

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dusted now I'm agin it I'm gonna teach you the masking process this is an important process because if you don't mask correctly you can end up getting paint all over your floor's important to use FrogTape so we don't get any paint bleedin under Neath the floors you can do it all in one you can put your frog tape on your mask er and mask with that on there but what I like to typically do is teach beginners people have never masked before to mask with their inch and a half tape and then go over it with their paper first so that's what I'm gonna be showing you right now and so I'm gonna set my mask fur aside and you want to be careful the blades are really really sharp on the maskers so you gotta be very careful not to cut yourself but I like to typically when I'm asking I like to work from right to left I'm right-handed so I'm going to just be working around my room from right to left going from the opposite direction not being left-handed it kind of little bit it's a little bit awkward for me so I'm just going to get down and I'm going to start masking and my masking has to be really really tight to my baseboards if it's not tight and though our wood floors Expo then you're gonna get paint on your hardwood floor so I'm just gonna take and start masking and I like to just stretch out about about a foot of masking and then I'm just gonna run my fingers along it you can see an eye can guide and direct my masking right up against that baseboard I want it to be touching the baseboard right there it's really nice and tight I don't see anything Brown along there and I'm actually bleeding so you got to be very careful not to cut yourself right here when you get to spots like this this is where we could just take our two edged five and one tool and you can just cut your masking so it's not sticking up onto the white so when what I'm talking you'll set your tape and you just take and you can manipulate your tape you'll just have about a foot out and you depending on where your line is you just start moving it you can just manipulate your tape you know whatever direction you need to go you just keep extending it out if I want to do my line was curved you can see I can manipulate my tape to curve around a line just like that so you're just about a foot of tape manipulate it to where you go and we're gonna be working around the baseboards I'm gonna set up my master a hand master is set up just like this you put your roll of tape on the tape comes over the top right here…

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