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Mask Door Jambs for Clean Edges

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How to Paint Your House Exterior With a Brush (Pro Tips & Techniques)

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white glare. Tip number two is masking and prepping. So, I'm using Frog Tape. It's essential when I'm masking the door jamb to not get any bleed underneath, especially if it was white. I'm actually painting this black. So, if it bled onto the black door jam, you wouldn't see it. But, I'm using frog tape cuz that will stop paint from bleeding underneath the tape. I'll just run a row of masking right along this inside edge. Just like that. I'll be using a ladder. So, my masking is going to come right up against the wood here. Go right inside. So, it's going to look like this right here. So again, it's really critical that you know you use a tape like frog tape that will stop any paint bleed. I don't want to paint that metal. So I'm going to [snorts] mask that metal off right here cuz I've got like exposed wood right here that needs to be painted. So I definitely have to paint that. >> [snorts] >> It's better to overmask than to undermask. Takes a lot longer to fix things than to prep. So, trim that off. Just like that. Metal's all masked off. The uh third tip that I'll

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