How to Mask a Garage Door for Airless Spraying (Windows, Concrete & Pro Tips)

All right. Now I'm working on getting ready to spray a garage door. It's got a lot of windows. We're masking off now. We found that doing batch processing is a lot faster. So you can put all the paper on the top and then go back and tape the sides and then you know whatever you do just, you know, try to batch process it. I do you know some then go back fill in do some go back fill it in and batch and it works that way for me the best. So, I just find, you know, batch processing is faster and more efficient. I always take off my um garage door openers. I know people mask them off. I would never mask that off. You want to paint behind it. I mask the ground. I use Frog Tape orange because your concrete typically your other like green and blue and yellow doesn't stick as well to your concrete. So, I find their production tape is the best when it comes to the concrete. I did the weather strip on the bottom of the door. I always mask off the weather strip. I hit it with blue um my blue uh inch and a half tape first. Then I went over the top of that with my paper, folded it underneath, and that way my weather strip doesn't get painted. So, whatever you do, don't paint the weather strip. The weather strip on on, you know, these doors, I don't mask this off because we always paint the weather strips on the doors. If the weather strip has never been painted before, it will dry. It will oxidize. It will dry out. It will crack and eventually get brittle and break off. I've been painting the rubber weather strips for for years and years um for 25 years. It always sticks. It always um looks good and it never has an issue. So, when it comes to masking off this glass, it's really important that you use a tape that's not going to allow the paint to bleed underneath. And I'm using Frog Tape. So, this is Frog Tape um blue and frog tape green. Frog tape green is what I typically, you know, have on my masker because I like the way it actually comes off. It comes off the masker um off the roll a lot easier and onto the tape and pat plastic a lot easier. I'm filling in with Frog Tape blue. Both of them have a polymer on the edge of the tape that won't allow paint to bleed underneath it. So, that way I'll get really crisp, clean lines on the glass. I don't want to have any bleeding on the glass cuz that's going to take you a long time to actually clean it off. I also find Frog Tape green and blue when I have to take all this off, it comes off way easier. It releases a lot easier and it's a lot of masking to actually pull off these windows. This is 9in paper. I only stock 9in paper, you know, in my vehicle. I'm going to go back and fill this in. I can go upwards and fill it in with a nine going up to fill in the bottom or I can fill it in with two rows of tape on the bottom if that's what you want to do. Well, what about um spraying on liquid masking? You can do that. Um I just don't like the whole concept of liquid masking. I see people using it and having success with it. Um, I've used it once or twice and I I'm just not liking the concept of putting, you know, spray and liquid masking onto my painted surface and then painting over the top of that. That that's just my preference. So, we're going to show you how I go about spraying a door in another video after we get this mask. So, if you want to see, you know, how I actually spray a garage door after this masking video, come check that out.