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Setting Up 3M Hand Maskers for Efficiency

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MASKING the Exterior of a House With The Idaho Painter

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What happens here

The presenter introduces essential tools for efficient masking: 3M Hand Maskers. He recommends having both a paper masker and a plastic film masker readily available to avoid time-consuming changes. He demonstrates how to properly load plastic film and green FrogTape onto a 3M Hand Masker. Ensure the tape feeds over the top of the roller and underneath the pen, with the sticky side facing up, to allow for quick and proper application.

Goal: Prepare hand maskers for quick and seamless transitions between different masking needs.

Tools and materials

  • 3M Hand Masker — Applying paper masking with tape
  • Green FrogTape — Creating clean lines and securing masking materials
  • Plastic Film 3M — Protecting surfaces from overspray

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all right now we're gonna move on to showing you some masking tips and tricks to tools or one tool you want to have when it comes to masking is hand masters these are M 3000 hand masters an absolute must when you're painting in the house is gonna make the the masking process and prepping process significantly faster I always have a paper mask err always have a plastic mask err because just taking the time to change is gonna take too much time I always have the ladder hooks on them so I can have them on my BOB pockets you don't want to be reaching down and grabbing maskers and looking for maskers if you have them on you while you're working your way around the house it's gonna be a lot faster and more efficient so just get back to the layering to the front door the front door that's if that's something if I'm working with a full team of painters in order to be painting this house in a day because this house would typically be painted in a day if I was working with a four-man crew that would if the front door if we waited towards the end of the day to do the front door then the front door wouldn't be dry and we wouldn't be able to install it and leave for the day and the house would be done so just tackling things and layers like looking at the the Gables I gotta spray the Gables because we got overlapping colors I want to be able to mask on that color so I wants to paint nice and dry so I painted them yesterday I can mask on them today it's gonna be very nice and dry for me to be able to mask on too if I tried to do the Gables the same day it might be a little bit more difficult but we do it all the time but I just wanted to get those Gables tackled yesterday so I can mask on them today so now we're gonna get working on all the lower windows so come on along and watch how we mask all right here's the first mask window I'm gonna mask and I'm just gonna work my way around the house and I'm gonna mask anything that I need a mask with plastic and anything I need to mask you know with paper so this window right here what I'm gonna be doing is I don't want any overspray on the glass and I don't want any overspray on the vinyl I don't care about overspray on this trim because it's just gonna be added paint I'm gonna go back in hand do that you're after I'm done spraying but I want to be able to mask on this window and not get any overspray so I'm going to show you how we go about masking I like to have frog tape on my plastic mascar and I'm gonna mask right to the…

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