Masking Windows | Exterior Painting

now when it comes to masking Windows off if you're an extremely different color window trim to window you definitely want to mask with frog tape so you don't get any bleeding on your vinyl our um trim paint is actually white it's almost the same color as the vinyl so you don't have to worry about you know using frog tape green as much but I just still use it as a precaution anyways frog tape green will protect anything from bleeding underneath because it got the polymer on the outside edge of the tape I'm just going to roll my plastic all the way down to below my window flip it back up and I actually roll it up instead of cutting it if I you know trim it off some guys trim it off then you just got a piece of plastic floating around the job site that could blow away in the Wind and you're chasing around plastic trying to keep a clean job site another little handy tip you can just take pull it down tight tack it and now it's easier to mask it's a good little tip if it's rain if it's windy outside I'm just going to roll this under my windows are wet because of the rain so might have a hard time getting are masking to tough having an issue with our masking sticking over here because of the moisture on the side of the house so I'm just going to try to use frog tape orange see if fog tape orange production tape will stick way tackier than the orange tape or the green tape see if that might hold and do the trick enough to just get it [Music] [Applause] [Music] typically when I'm masking Windows like this I would be using inch tape too CU it's way more cost effective but just because of the moisture the humidity out here today using inch and a half because there's a lot more adhesive surface area it's not windy today so I don't necessarily have to tack it but I like to just run you know about an inch piece 2in piece of tape tack it pull it tight come down tack it pull it tight it's drier underneath here so the tape is actually sticking CU we're under an awning so it's not as humid underneath here [Music] side pull it tight the other side ning rip right there so we just have to tack it down where it ripped it's going to come all the way down it's going to be just short of the bottom cuz it's 72 in the door's taller 72 cuz that rip right there I'm just going to fill that tear in don't want anything getting behind [Music] that now what's left we're not spraying the spray will come right up to here we wouldn't actually get overspray on that window I'd just um Shield it with a cardboard Shield but you can just take a piece of masking right here and just fill this in with paper and then I'll just tack that over right here keep it from flapping over the rest of this is not going to get overspray so I don't got to worry about it same goes the other [Music] [Applause]