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Mask Doorknobs

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How to paint a door while not taking it down. Painting A Door.

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What happens here

To protect the doorknobs, take a short strip of 1-inch masking tape with 9-inch masking paper attached. Carefully wrap this around each doorknob, ensuring to leave approximately a 1/16-inch gap between the edge of the paper/tape and the door surface. This gap is crucial because the masking will be removed while the paint is still wet; if the tape touches the painted surface, it could pull the fresh paint off. The goal is to only mask the doorknob itself, not any part of the door. Twist the paper around the knob to secure it.

Goal: Protect doorknobs from paint while allowing full paint coverage on the door.

Tools and materials

  • 3M Hand Masker 3M — Dispensing masking tape and paper efficiently
  • Masking Paper — Covering doorknobs to protect from paint
  • Masking Tape — Securing masking paper around doorknobs

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We just leave the handles on. So, we're just going to take some masking, short strip of masking, uh, 1 in tape with 9 in paper, and I'll wrap it around this handle. And I want to keep it about a 16th of an inch away from the door. So, when we go to pull the masking off, it won't actually pull the paint off if cuz we're going to pull the masking off while the door is still wet. So, we're going to wrap this masking around. And this has to be perfect. You don't want the masking actually touching the painted part of the door cuz then that part of the door won't get painted. You only want it on the doororknob itself. Wrap it around. And then we'll just twist it up here.

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