Understanding Tape Release Time and Consequences

But you know we didn't use very often we didn't use like higher release tapes that have longer days like a blue tape Because it saves you a whole lot of money. So this tape right here a production tape or even a yellow production tape Can be less than a dollar roll or right around a dollar roll and a blue tape is going to be around $7 a roll So should you invest in the money and just using this as your everyday tape? Probably not. I know a lot of do-it-yourselfers are going to be masking and not completing the project today And they might be working this weekend and not get it done Leave the tape come back next weekend and start working on the same project That's definitely when you want to have the blue tape and invest in the money because if you use a production tape And that kind of situation when you come back next week and try to remove the tape It's going to splinter. It's going to leave adhesive behind and that is an absolute nightmare It's a professional painter's worst nightmare is using tapes that just don't perform well So I'm going to talk about some of the qualities about blue tape and one of them longer release It's UV resistant. It's heat resistant and it just has higher quality papers And so we're going to talk about some of those things and whether you should invest in blue tape right now So now I'm going to talk about release and if you've never you know heard of release So every tape has a release time and what that means is the tape is Recommended to be pulled up removed from the service in X amount of days So a blue tape all the blue tapes I researched have a 14-day release time So you need to pull it up from the surface within that period of time if not The heats up could dry to the surface. It could leave residue behind It also the tape on the paper itself could splinter and that is a real pain on the neck When you go to pull off all your paper and plastic you just want it to just come off nice and easily and not splinter where you're Happen to get up on a ladder or get down on the floor and start picking tape off the floor