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Masking Techniques

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How To Stop Paint Overspray.

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Masking is a crucial step for overspray control. Use 9-inch masking paper and 1.5-inch tape to mask off fences adjacent to the painting area. Also, mask off heat vents and window trims to prevent paint from adhering to them. This ensures you can easily remove the masking paper and paint the trim without waiting for the main body paint to dry, preventing overspray onto the trim.

Goal: Properly mask off adjacent surfaces to prevent overspray.

Tools and materials

  • 1.5-inch TapeSecuring masking paper
  • 3M M3000 Hand-Masker 3MEfficiently applying masking paper and tape
  • 9-inch Masking PaperProtecting fences and window trims
  • Masking FilmProtecting larger areas like windows from overspray

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more tips and tricks. So masking is actually a very important part of controlling overspray. And you can see our fence right here. We've masked off this bench with 9-in paper and uh 1 and inch and a half tape. And that's pretty important to keeping the overspray off the fence. If you're using the proper tip and tip size, all you need is 9 in paper. If you're not using the proper tip or a blown out tip, the over you're going to get a lot more overspray. So you'd have to run two rows of paper. But we're typically always using really new tips, not worn out tips, keeping the pressure right on our pump. So, we got our paper right here. Um going to We don't want any overspray on this heat vent right here. So, you can see how we've masked that heat vent. We've also put um paper around our window trim cuz we don't want to get paint on the window trim. That way we can paint this uh pull this paper off really quick and then begin rolling that window trim without having to wait for the body to dry because we've got overspray onto the trim. So here's some of the tips with the masking and we're going to move on to showing you some spraying. Once

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