AMAZING Cabinet HACKS! Masking to SPRAY.

[Music] you're watching paint live TV I'm journeymen John and I'm Christie Idaho painter today we've got a quick video on how we go about masking cabinet boxes quickly and efficiently so we're in a kitchen today we're masking off the boxes right here we're not going to be painting the insides of these cabinets we typically do not so we've got a mass so we don't get overspray in the inside so we're gonna show you how we mask a drawer face and we're gonna show you how we mask a thore face yeah so we've got a couple of tips to start out with and the first one is use the correct kind of plastic so we've got two different colors we got blue and we got black and one of them is flake resistant right John it is indeed you want to use the blue advance masking film it's treated with a chemical that's going to keep your paint from flaking all over those pretty cabinets you just worked so hard on that masking does cost a little bit more the plastic because it is treated with that chemical what's the cost difference between these two you're really gonna pay about double for the stuff with the blue ink over the black ink but it is going to save you a huge headache especially on a small product like this you're really only gonna use one roll it's worth the maybe six bucks we use two different types of tape we use CP 199 this is from Sur tape this is our production tape and then we also use sprog tape but there's a difference between the two and when would you use one or the other zone so the CP 199 had to hire adhesive that's typically gonna be what we're using since we use lacquers on all of our cabinets it has less of a tendency to curl up than frog tape frog tape however is really great if you're gonna have that masking up for a long time or if you're going to be using water-based products so you're gonna see us in the video at the end here and you'll see us masking we use paper we use 9-inch paper and then we use the plastic it's 72 inch spell and there's our two tapes sometimes we do have to clean the cabinets because the tape don't stick and that's where denatured alcohol comes into play because we want it to dry fast and dry quickly so we can mask on it right yeah so kitchens bathrooms places we're going to be painting these cabinets you're going to run into an issue oils or grease or things like that sometimes it tapes not gonna stick this dries much much faster than you with no downtime so that you can get that masking up and continue on your way all right let's show them some masking right now [Music] so there you have it some tips and tricks how to mask cabinets if you enjoyed the video please give us a thumbs up please consider liking this video if you got anything else to add to that gentleman you know this is just our process if you've got ways that you do it let us know down in the comments below we'd love to hear that everyone has a different way this is just how we do it we'll see you on our next video