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Refine Doorknob Masking for Efficiency and Cleanliness

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Masking to spray with an airless sprayer. Idaho Painter spraying tips.

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • FrogTape (green)
  • FrogTape (orange)
  • Masking paper
  • Tape applicator

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like doing that but once again it all just comes down to scenarios and situations sometimes your posed with situations where you just got to do something out of the ordinary and um to get the job done and get it to look the best that you can possibly get it to look so you can see these door hinges got paint all over them they don't even match color wise those door hinges so by painting the door hinges at least they have a consistent color striker plates do come off pretty easily we've got some striker plates i've got paint all over them we can clean those really easily typically i'm going to take out the spike striker plates clean them before painting we're going to do a little bit of sanding caulking get this ready to spray here but just like this this will end up all turning white right there and look a lot better so you can look at a door knob right here this is going on the other side had paint all over it this side does not we're going to want a nice clean line on the doorknob we don't want to go on to the wood we're gonna be like a sixteenth of an inch onto the metal repeating a nice line using green frog tape and i'm just gonna push down with my fingers i'll make it get a good seal nine inch paper one inch tape and wrap this twist it just like this and squeeze it i'm not going to wrap any more tape around that because what i call some of you have tested a christmas wrap it put too much tape it takes too long to get it off when you're done spraying i like to be able to just grab one in and just pull it off just like that it comes off really fast if you do it like that twist it small it'll stay if you squeeze it it's going to stay like that plunger if you're not removing the doorknob again this is not you know sake of argument at all some people are going to say that's the ultimate sin not removing the doorknob but you gotta gotta be open-minded to different scenarios different situations we typically would remove it but in this case we're not

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