Prepare the Masker and Load Tape

In this video, we're going to show you how to set up a 3M hand masker for use with paper and plastic. When we're actually masking an exterior of a building or a house, I actually carry two paper maskers or two maskers, three of man maskers. I use a plastic one with 72in film and I use a paper one with 9 in paper. And that way, as I'm masking, I can completely 100% mask as I go. I can mask the windows and I can mask off anything that needs paper. And when I've got a masker that I'm going to set up, I've got 3M 2020 tape that I use. We always use 1 in tape. Pretty typical. It's pretty rare that we use inch and a half, but on occasion we do. This this masker, the way we're masking, we're going to use 3 in or 1 in 2020 tape. And the tape itself is going to go onto the masker just like this. And the tape is going to come out towards you. If the tape is on wrong, it comes underneath. You want the tape so the sticky side of the tape is facing down. So when the sticky side of the tape is facing down, there's got this tab right here. It's going to go underneath that tab and then it's going to stick onto your paper. The paper is