Finish Masking a Small Window (Bottom and Corners)

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How to Mask Windows & Doors for Exterior Spraying | Pro Tips for Windy Conditions

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For the bottom of the window, instead of trimming the excess masking film with a knife (which can lead to it blowing away in the wind), gently tuck the film upwards and under the bottom frame. Then, use 1.5-inch tape to secure the bottom edge tightly against the frame. For corners, apply small pieces of tape to ensure full coverage and prevent any paint from getting onto the window trim. If the masker's blade poked small holes in the film during application, use tiny pieces of tape to patch these holes, preventing overspray.

Goal: Completely seal and protect the small window from overspray.

Tools and materials

1.5-inch Painter's Tape FrogTape Blue — Securing the bottom, corners, and patching holes

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So you have the option of taking, pulling this down, and you can trim it with a knife. But I don't like trimming it with a knife, because then that plastic on a windy day is going to blow away in the wind. So I'm just going to take and tuck it up. The last thing you want to do is upset the neighbors because your masking and plastic is flying in their yard. I'm going to roll it under. I'm going to hurry up quickly, mask this bottom before the wind catches it and lifts it up. So now I'm going to tack that on there. So now that's holding it down. So this side, the winds want to lift that up. You can see it's lifting it up a little bit. I'm going to get another piece of masking. Put this on there, tear that corner, fold this corner up. Like that. I'm going to press this down, make sure that's good and tight. Now I don't want paint getting on that corner right there. So I'm just going to fill that corner in, because our house is going to be black. I don't want black paint on my white trim. The corners, I always take, put a piece on the corner, fill that in, check everything. You can see this could be a leak right there. So I want to make sure that's good and tight right there. Now I'm going to fill this in just like this. So put it on there and I got a little piece over hanging. I don't have to worry about cutting it. I just lift it up, fold it up, tack it down. I can see it got a little tiny leak right there. One of the tools that you should have when masking is a tough gap. So this is keeping the tape with me at all times. I don't have to have it in the amount. I don't have to have it on my wrist. It's available for me whenever I need it. So I can just tear a piece off. I want to make sure this little corner right here is perfect. It's again, get that on there, fold this up, tuck it in, and my window is masked. Now that process would actually happen significantly faster if I wasn't videoing, but I was videoing. So the process was a little bit slower. So now I'm going to check this, make sure. Now say you had a little spot right there. If that was a spot that needs to be touched up, I can tuck this up underneath there, touch that spot up. Now I'm not going to have that little black spot on that trim. So that's how I go about masking a small window with plastic. We're going to move over here. We'll show you a larger window. How we go about masking a larger window with plastic. All right, so we've got a larger window. And I'm going to see if I can actually reach…

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