Understand Paint & Caulk Bridging

this chris idaho painter here on paint live tv today i'm going to be talking about a subject we keep getting asked a lot at our store paint life supply co and that's peeling off your tape and it pulling the tape off the wall or the substrate that you are masking on or adjoining too so if you want to know how to stop that frustrating annoying thing of peeling the paint off the wall stay tuned for this video [Applause] [Music] all right so i'm going to get on with the topic of the paint uh peeling up the wall when you're pulling your tape so you know what actually causes this so typically you know what the scenario looks like is you're running your tape on the wall you're running it around your trim or your door jam something and you're painting over that so you can get perfectly straight lines without having to spend years and years learning how to cut in and it's just a fast and easy way to get laser straight lines commonly used method using frog tape even caulking over your frog tape but what is actually happening is and especially if you use anything other than a flat paint so you're going to use like a satin paint a semi-gloss paint gloss paint or even eggshell paints you know there's enough acrylic in those paints to make them flexible and stretchy and if you allow the paint to dry on the tape and it's going to be drying on the tape and then it's going to be drying onto the wall when you go to start pulling off your your tape off of your surface that it's masked onto the um the paint is stuck to the tape it's actually stuck to the wall and it's what we call bridging and it's going to be stretching and pulling off the wall because paint typically takes about 30 days to dry and cure and really bond and bite to the surface now you're not going to sit there and let your tape sit you know on the surface for 30 days and allow it to cure on the wall so it's more likely to peel off more or less likely to peel off the wall you're typically pulling that when it's dry you know within a several hours or maybe the next day but the problem is is the paint is drying it's not bonding to the surface it has enough acrylic in in it that it's stretching and pulling and then it pulls away in the surface and it kind of um snaps into what we call like little sharks teeth or jagged edges and that is very frustrating so how do you stop that from happening and you stop that from happening by not allowing your paint to dry and and that goes for your caulking too because the same…