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Mask the Highlight Band Area

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Painting Stucco. Adding accent colors to stucco trim.

What happens here

After the body color has dried, prepare the stucco surface for the highlight band by masking the areas you wish to protect from the highlight color. Use a 3M hand masker loaded with 1-inch 20/20 masking tape and 9-inch masking paper. Apply the tape along the precise line where the highlight band will begin, ensuring a crisp, straight edge. Attach the masking paper to the tape, allowing it to cover the upper stucco body color area completely. The technician recommends masking from right to left for easier application.

Goal: Create a clean, sharp boundary for the highlight band.

Tools and materials

  • 3M Hand Masker 3MEfficiently applying masking tape and paper simultaneously
  • Masking PaperProtecting the upper stucco body color from overspray
  • Masking Tape 20/20Creating the crisp edge for the highlight band and securing the masking paper
  • Vinyl Stucco PatchRepairing any dings or nicks in the stucco prior to painting

What they say

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going to be a highlight. So now we got our body here on this side. We've got the body color painted here and down here. And this is going to be our highlight band. And I can actually use a cardboard shield and shield here to spray this with a RAX 310 tip. But I want a nice crisp clean line right here. So I'm going to use a 3M hand masker. And last, I do like to move from right to left cuz it's a lot easier to mask right to left. Otherwise, if you go from left to right, you have to mask upside down. So, I'm going to make a run. I'm going to tack my paper up. When we spray that, it's going to make a nice crisp, clean line right here. And once we spray it, we'll remove it while the paint is still wet. Hang on. I'm going to continue this whole run right here and then masking it and then we're going to spray it. Now working on our stucco highlights. We're running our 9 in paper and 1 in 2020 tape along the top where we want our nice crisp line to be. And then we're going to spray the Stucco bottom band with the Rackex 310 tip. So we run it around, mask it, do any repairs with Stucco repairs with Stuckco patch, and then we're going to get ready to spray with the 310 tip. We've gone around and used a vinyl stucco patch for areas that have dings and nicks in it prior to actually doing our highlight color. Now, we've got our Stuckco masked off,

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