Caulking Your Tape. Paint Like a Level 1 Master.

so I got everything masked off we begin the cocking I got a couple options I typically caul with either Tower Tech 2 clear or I'm going use Tower accelerator Tower accelerator it's a 50-year cing that was actually designed to be painted over um brush and rolled over it instantly you don't have to wait any period of time over flat paints it won't crack either painting on it your right away we're using a matte paint right here I've tested um I'm doing some testing with this product um it's bare a dynasty so I've used a tower um the clear cuz I like the clear better cuz the consistency is a lot thinner it's easy to work with it's not good for filling gaps but if I don't have any gaps to fill on when I'm doing my cut ends uh I'm going to always side towards using a clear cocking cuz it's just thinner easy to work with dry slower also so but if you're using flat paints I would highly recommend Tower accelerator cuz it's not going to crack um flat paints are notorious of cracking over the top of caulking but um being a suit the Bears high-end paint Topline paint we're going to experiment with it on that wall and see how it performs I'm going to be using tower accelerator on the inside of this tight space right here and we're going to see the difference between the two but once again um a white coofing it's got you know more pigment in it more solids it's heavier bodied and dries a little bit faster don't need to be worrying about cocking inside here it's just going to be cocking right here and these two sides right here um and that way I get perfectly straight lines on my tape using this super dark color accent color I don't want any type of bleeding it's really thin it could bleed on any type of imperfection on your tape so you definitely want to it just be putting on small tiny beat of caul I'm going to be working just this one section right here cuz say the the white cocking dries faster especially a tower accelerator it dries quite a bit faster than a clear cocking so I want to get it on then I'll begin painting right over over it right away just hand you little tip that things are drying too fast for you you'll turn down your heat open up a window anything to cool it off it was really hot in here and I opened up two windows it's really cold outside and cool it off in here to give me a little more working time with my paint and my copping now this wall is done I'm just going to pull my masking now before this dries you can see with coughing accelerator we've got perfectly straight line right there you pull your tape while the paint is wet your tape is less likely to Splinter too versus when the paint dries I've got this cut in to do right here so power of accelator small tiny bead once again all this is doing is really wetting the edge of the seal the white cocking is drier than the clear so you don't have as much working time I can feel it's like drying really fast it's partly why you can paint over it right