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Mask a Door with Film and Paper

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

What happens here

For a door that has already been painted (like the black door shown), the goal is to protect the door itself, not necessarily the trim (which will be hand-painted). Drop the 72-inch masking film straight down the door frame, using the masker with 1.5-inch tape to secure the top edge. Then, secure the sides of the film to the door frame with tape. For the bottom section, where the trim might be rough or not ideal for direct tape adhesion, use 9-inch paper. Tack the paper onto the door jamb, then use tape to create a clean line and protect the already painted door from overspray. This method also allows for hand-rolling the bottom trim if desired.

Goal: Protect a painted door from overspray while allowing trim to be hand-painted.

Tools and materials

  • 1.5-inch Painter's Tape FrogTape Green — Securing the film and paper to the door frame
  • Masker — Applying film and tape

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you know, with our plastic in the wind. It's going to, it's not too windy today. It's been kind of going up and down, but I'm going to be masking this door. This door has already been painted right here. I don't want to get overspray on the door. This door jam right here is going to be hand painted, hand brushed and rolled. So I'm just going to cover this up because I don't want to get overspray on the door itself. So I'm just going to drop plastic, you know, down this door. So just roughly, you know, wherever you can tack it to, the door jam, the primers all coming off. So the tape might have a hard time sticking down there, but I'll just fill it in with paper. You can see the wind picking up once the blow my masking away, but I'm not going to get frustrated. I can just grab it anywhere right here in the middle. So tack that down quickly before it starts blowing around again. I'll just tack that down, tack it down. Over here, the opposite side is already been painted. So I don't have to worry about that as much. Just tack that down right there. I'm going to tack this over here. See the winds blowing in around a little bit. It's all right. It's like that now that door is protected. We don't want anything down here getting on the door itself. We're going to just spray to this corner, and that's it. So that's where I would have my paper masker, typically have both maskers with me, paper masker. It's going to go on here just like this. Get down, and now that's going to protect that. I'll tack the paper down on the ground. This, tack it right here. Now that's going to protect it if you're concerned. Yo, with over spray, once again, if you're not, yo, has good with it, an airless sprayer, you're concerned about that. Once again, you can protect the whole entire thing if you want to. Throw some, tack some paper on there. You can tack this down right here. And now, yo, that's protected.

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