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Remove Window Masking

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Immediately after spray painting the window trim, while the paint is still wet, carefully remove the masking tape and plastic. If the paint is allowed to dry completely before removal, it can 'bridge' from the plastic to the window, potentially pulling off freshly applied paint or leaving jagged edges. Remove the masking slowly and at an angle to ensure clean lines.

Goal: Achieve clean paint lines by removing masking while paint is wet.

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Now, while this is still wet, I'm just going to go ahead and remove this masking very carefully. And if you don't remove the masking now, once it dries, you could get it bridge from your plastic to your window and it could end up peeling the paint off. So yeah, you got to be careful not to knock any debris off onto the window, but this is the process and how we like to do it and it's what's worked best for us over time. in the

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