Select Tape Based on Release Time & Adhesion
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Best Masking Tapes for Interior Painting | Why FrogTape Is a Game-Changer for New Construction
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(2,040 characters)And you know, I'm finding that on this job with the product, you know, Scuff Top, there are tapes now designed specifically to adhere to um low VOCC paints and stuff. Frog tape has, you know, very high adhesion tape. This tape actually sticks uh pretty good to low VOC paints. I'm not dealing with that kind of stuff here in this new construction house. But this is a product, you know, from frog tape that I have sitting here. I was going to show you 3-day release, you know, product. Release times. Typically, new construction guys could be masking the windows off, trim off, spraying it, leaving it on for a week to two weeks, depending on the size of the house. So, you want tape that has a longer release time if you're using that method. Most of the time I like to take and remove my masking when everything's wet or at least the next day. But um high adhesion tape, you know, sticks well to fences. Um concrete orange tape is a frog tape production tape. You know, a high adhesion high-te production tape. This is the the tape I use just everyday tape inside, outside of houses, everyday tape that I'd be using in new construction. Um and so I use it quite a bit. Typically, this tape, the the orange tape, doesn't have the polymer on the outside of the tape, which is the paint block technology and, you know, it swells, you know, doesn't allow paint underneath it. And so, it performs uh it doesn't it performs differently than say blue. The blue tape, you can see the polymer. It's a white dust on the outside. It swells when it gets wet. And so, you'll get sharper lines, uh, painted lines if you're brushing and rolling up against it. new construction, we're spraying everything and usually you don't get paint bleed underneath your tape when you're spraying because you're not forcing, you know, paint up against the tape. And so just a production tape typically performs, you know, very well around, you know, the entire house doing new construction. It's 3-day release. So, if you're going to be leaving this on for more than
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