CAULKING Your Tape Actually Works! FrogTape Tips.

this Christy Idaho painter here on paint live TV today I'm going to show you how to get perfectly straight lines using frog tape in cocking on rough surfaces so stay tuned for this video and if you do enjoy my videos don't forget to subscribe it's free and easy to do hit that notification bow if you subscribe and don't hit the notification valve which is free and easy you'll never get notified when I come out with new videos so it's really a point in hitting the subscribe button without the notification bells so hit it bang it slamming do whatever you got to do now let's get to painting some straight lines alright so here we go I'm going to show you some tips and tricks and the method I use using frog tape and clear caulking so I've got a surface right here this is a really rough wall this would be have not concerned maybe I knocked down but this is a really heavy orange peel texture then you can try to cut that line in its gonna take you a long time and nearly impossible to get a perfectly straight line on that and I'm actually gonna even do a curved line right here you see blue tape right here frog tape has two different types of frog tape now they got blue frog tape and green frog tape there is a cost difference because this is contractor pacs it's not a premium paper but it's the same thing they both have the paint block technology on the outside of the tape it's a product a polymer that swells up when it's liquid hits it so on these bumpy surfaces paint can't leak underneath there but when you get a rough surface like this you may still get some strange leakage here and there because you've got some really heavy peaks and valleys so when you put your tape out you definitely want to push down on it but that's where the clear caulking comes into play and why I use clear caulking and it just adds that added measure of sealing your tank now there's some tips and tricks when it comes to using clear caulking and how you got to go about doing it to be effective I know some people out there and utilize pre-wetting their tape so you get your tape on there and you can take a wet sponge and I can just rub a wet sponge over this and that will activate that polymer it will swell up and it kind of does the same thing is caulking but the caulking itself is of and so it's even going to be more effective when it when it comes to filling in those peaks and valleys I'm gonna use green frog tape but I really like it's the green I like the paper on the green a little bit better than the blue it's a little bit thinner and when you pull your tape because it's thinner it doesn't leave as big of a dam and when you're using coffee and this is kind of important the dam is when you pull the tape off the ridge that is left from the caulking to the part that's not talking you're gonna have this Ridge and that's called the dam the smaller the dam the less likely you're gonna see it so the thinner of the paper the smaller the dam so this this if you're using frog tape to get clean lines again you're not using clear caulking the blue tape is very effective like on smooth surfaces and stuff because it still has that polymer on the outside I'm just going to take a mask a line this is going to be straight I'll just you know simulate you can see how you can even curve so we've got a line right here so now I've got my line and this is once again a very bumpy surface so I'm gonna just press my tape down and this would be really impossible to get a straight line on so got my coffee frog tape and then I actually just do will do all people do one with three wedding will do one with nothing and then you wanna with clear quality but we can even see the difference that'll kind of be a good test right there I've never actually used the pre-wedding method I've always used clear talking now if you have between like baseboards I've got white baseboards down here if you have like a gap in there in that baseboard and you're using your caulking to fill the gap and then paint over clear caulking shrinks quite a bit and it doesn't fill as much as the white caulking does and so sometimes we'll use white coffee but we only use white talking if they're surface we're masking over is white anything other than white we use clear so one of the key things that getting straight lines right before you paint you should always pressure take down with your hands I'm going to take and talk one of the tapes right here I'll good talking the top one what I actually do caulking I'm doing a lot of it I do like to wear rubber gloves I use latex gloves I really like the Raven gloves big fan of those clothes so I use Raven gloves because I just don't want cocking all of my hands and if you actually read the SDS on caulking this up you know there are some things in caulking that you probably don't want on your hands absorbed into your body your liver and your kidneys and stuff so did I get to wear rubber gloves especially when you've been talking okay so here we go this is just clear caulking and this is a high quality coffee now the keys is I don't want to put a big you know be to cuffing on here because I'm actually wiping all the caulking away the only thing we're actually doing is trying to fill those voids along this edge and that's what our coffee does so it's just a small bead of caulking that we're gonna wipe off the more caulking there is the more it's kind of smear around with your brush and stuff and you don't want that effect so I'm just gonna take it just put a nice very small bead of caulking on there you can kind of see it this is there's not very much on there and it doesn't have to be perfectly fake is you're gonna wipe it you know over so whether you're on the wall or on the on the tape it doesn't really matter now my talking's on there just take my hello and I like to have you like a wet rag or something I can just wipe my caulking on too so I'm just gonna wipe it on the press and get all of it off there's only gonna be black for like a thin residue left on this tape right here so the caulking swiped on there so this is a really rough surface so we'll see if we have any success so that one's down right there and I'm gonna take a pre wet the blue one with this pretty wet the blue one and we'll leave the bottom of green one now some of the keys to using this method of using the caulking you have to paint over the coffee before it dries this is critical if it dries when you go to peel it off it's gonna bridge from here to here because this is gonna glue itself from the tape to the wall and you're gonna peel it off in what we call like sharp teeth on here and those are all going to be touch-ups so now that it's on there I want to begin painting over that caulking you know right away so I'm just gonna paint my wall do what this just could simulate baseboards it could be window trim it could be just anything wherever it could be just stripe on a wall and I don't want to use a whole lot of force and I'm not taking my brush and really pushing on it because I don't want to force you know my paint underneath the tape so I'm just like brushing it lightly I would typically if I was you know rolling the wall this was around the trim I'm gonna back roll over this you know I'm gonna roll with a four inch roller and then roll my wall so we only off activated the top so we're not gonna be looking at the bottoms we're gonna be looking at the tops so I'm gonna tell you like right now it's um I'm just working right along on this top one one of the key things with this method like I said is do not let your caulking dry so typically you cannot do a whole room and caulk it and then come back like if you're doing baseboards window trim this up and then come back and paint it because you're gonna have that bridging effect and you're gonna get sharp teeth pulls on it and then you're gonna have a lot of touch-up so you don't we typically work just one wall at a time if you have two guys going doing this method you can work two walls at a time but we're typically working one wall at a time so key element you cannot let the caulking dry before you pull the tape now the second key element is you cannot let the paint dry before you pull the tape or you're gonna have the same effect how'd you get a lot of questions you were to say well it's going to crack typically on 99% of the walls we do the the paint's are satin paints there's a lot of acrylic and satin paints they're very flexible just like the caulking is flexible so and then the two components we got latex coffee and underneath here and then we've got latex paint on the top they both are compatible they both dry at the same time the same rate and we don't get any cracking or any splitting using satin paints this is a satin paint right here so that's if you do use flat paint you may get some cracking using flat paint so we've used flat paints in the pack pass with this method and we'll just go back and touch up where it does crack but we've had success we've been doing this method for probably 15 years and never had an issue with the coffee in incompatible if you use the silicone caulking it's not gonna work we use a latex paint a latex caulking with the latex paint so it's a water-based made this is not an oil-based paint so now I'll pull off the top one and you can see my perfectly spent line on an extremely bumpy service now you can see the bottom where it actually bled through right there because it didn't have any popping on it and you can see how bad that is now let's try pulling the blue tape off this was pre wetted and so it's so that's pre-planning so there's a few spots that it's like moving right here because these were too big of valleys that the tape is swelling on the tape the polymer couldn't fill that in you can see the bottom of it there's more bleeding because I didn't put wet the bottom so that's I mean if you can get a close-up and you can fill this wall that is extremely bumpy and that's still pretty ineffective so that blue tape is very effective for giving you a clean line I can take and just touch those things up fairly quickly so I can use that tape make that line and touch those little things up a lot faster than I can try and cutting that line here's FrogTape down here alone that doesn't have no water or no clear talking so to me this is not a bad line on this bumpy surface it's the thick the thickness of the tape made that strainer in some areas right there but you got a little bit of bleeding but you can see the difference using clear caulking and this is why we use clip caulking is to get that perfectly straight line absolutely amazing you see it's got a little bit of a dam there the ridge that's left behind click off inputs amazing in fact perfectly straight lines some of the questions I'll get is you know this was the baseboard and this is the wall you know now that I pulled my tape what if I have to to coat my walls so if I have to to coat my walls I know that in advance I'm gonna be rolling my wall down to you know about a quarter of an inch from where my masking already is in the put my first coat on my cut ends will be done next and then while my cut in is wet then I'll roll my second coat onto the wall and then I'll pull my tape that way I don't get any stippling on the baseboards now you will see us do this method on and do a second coat will take and pull the tape you'll do it the before and some certain circumstances and some of my videos you've probably seen that but we're using a very high quality paint a very high quality roller I like the premiere rollers in the quality paper using in the rollers they do not be you know any stippling or any splatter on the baseboards and so we can get away with it but best practices as always you know tape roll your first coat come down to about a quarter of an inch and then do all your cut ends and we work wall the wall of your by yourself you're gonna have to work one wall do that whole wall and then move to the next walk or two people you can typically work two walls at a time I do a lot of people ask me what paint brush I like and on interiors really like the premiere Montauk this is a Montauk which is my next an Oreo blend brush and a great brush from premier so there you have it some of the tips and tricks that have worked for me for the last 15 years painting perfectly straight lines and what this does and I know some of you people out there gonna argue you know brush and roll or I can cut in the straight line I can do this I can do that some people are gonna think I'm you know eliminating the need for the guy you know that can handle a brush this does not which just makes effective members of your team quickly I can teach you no kid off the street high school Community College get how to do this method in about two to two or three weeks he'll be doing that around doors door jambs window trim and baseboards and you actually start making our company money right off the bat it's very effective we always need somebody to are the professional the journeyman that's got 5 years of experience cutting and sealing lines because they're sealing lines are always cut in by hand there's always a need for the guy with the brush we're not eliminating that journeyman so don't be afraid hope you enjoyed this video if you have once again I said at the beginning a please consider giving us a thumbs up please consider hitting that's our last notification bow because if you don't if you don't hit that little hourglass note or note I think it they changed it from a paragraph to a notification bell you're not going to get notified anytime I come up with a new video check us out at Instagram check us out on Facebook for new tips and tricks check me out on Pintrest i'm writing some pretty cool blogs on pinterest now see you in our next video out [Music]