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Mask Non-Paintable Areas

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How To Paint A House. The 4 Step Process To Painting Your Home.

What happens here

Mask all surfaces that should not be painted using a combination of masking paper, plastic sheeting, and painter's tape. This includes windows, garage doors, any brick or stone elements, electrical outlets, light fixtures, and the ground directly around the house. The video shows using a 3M M3000 masker to efficiently apply tape with masking paper/plastic. Ensure all masking is securely taped down to prevent overspray. Use 9-inch paper with 1-inch (20/20) tape for general masking and plastic for larger areas like windows.

Goal: Protect all non-paintable surfaces from overspray

Tools and materials

  • 3M M3000 Masker
  • Ladder
  • Drop Cloths
  • Masking Paper
  • Painter's Tape (1-inch/20-20 tape) 3M
  • Plastic Sheeting

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tuned. Here we go. So, I got a house here. Going to walk you through what we actually mask with plastic and what we actually mask with paper. show you some of the masking we have. We got we take put paper masking 9 in paper on any roof lines so we don't get on any overspray on the roofs. We're going to take and put drop cloths on those areas too. But you can see the masking on the roof. We mask all the windows off so we don't get overspray on the windows. We mask garage doors um on the ground so when we actually spray the garage door, we don't get overspray on the garage doors. They mask off any brick or rock so we don't get any overspray on brick and rock. And typically all the masking we're using is 9in paper with 1 in 2020 20 tape around any light fixtures, any electrical outlets, anything that can get overspray. These are your vents, but we'll typically mask them so they'll look nice, crisp, and clean and match the house. We got same over here. Here we got masking on windows. We've got a vinyl fence that we've masked 9 in paper to keep the overspray off the vinyl fence. We've got two doors in the back that we've masked off. We're going to be spraying these doors. So, we've masked them off so we don't get overspray on the doors. Got the thresholds masked. [Music] Going to fill it in with my 3M 2020 tape. It's cheaper. Frog tape's about $5 a roll. The 3M 2020 tape's about a dollar a roll. Now, the final step of painting your house is the actual painting process. So, now we're going to walk you through using the airless sprayer, painting your house, and then the rolling process of rolling the trim. So, here we go. Watch this last process of painting your house. 515

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