Skip to main content
Stesso

Select Appropriate Masking Materials

0:06
10:08
16.2K views

At 0:06 in

Paper & Plastic Masking Tips Painting Kitchen Cabinets

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

The video begins by showcasing a range of masking materials essential for cabinet painting and general masking. The presenter emphasizes carrying only 9-inch paper and 72-inch 3M Hand-Masker plastic film to streamline inventory, avoiding the headache of stocking multiple sizes. Specific types of FrogTape are detailed: * **FrogTape Yellow (Delicate Surface Painter's Tape)**: Ideal for sensitive surfaces like wallpaper, faux finishes, or freshly painted surfaces (less than 24 hours old). It features low adhesion to prevent surface damage, with a clean removal time of up to 60 days. This tape is less commonly used for cabinet interiors unless the surface is exceptionally delicate. * **FrogTape Green (Multi-Surface Painter's Tape)**: A versatile tape with medium adhesion, suitable for cured painted walls, wood trim, glass, and metal. It offers a 21-day clean removal, making it a good choice for applications where the tape needs to stay in place for several days. * **FrogTape Orange (Pro Grade Painter's Tape CP-199)**: Features high adhesion and quick stick, designed for production work on interior and exterior applications, including masking light fixtures, doorways, windows, or holding poly for spray protection. It has a 3-day release, making it unsuitable for multi-day cabinet projects if directly applied to painted surfaces, but is excellent for tacking plastic film. * **FrogTape Blue (Pro Grade Painter's Tape)**: Similar to green/yellow but specifically mentioned for flooring (tile, hardwood) to protect sensitive finishes that might peel with stronger adhesives. It offers a 14-day clean removal. The presenter advises using a delicate surface tape like FrogTape Yellow for hardwood floors to prevent peeling. The presenter highlights that for cabinet projects, which typically take 2-3 days, choosing tapes with longer release times and appropriate adhesion levels (like FrogTape Green for face frames) is crucial to prevent finish damage. For tacking plastic, production tape like FrogTape Orange is economical and effective as it's not directly on the finished surface for an extended period.

Goal: Learn about various types and sizes of masking tapes (FrogTape Yellow, Green, Orange, Blue) and 3M Masking Film, understanding their specific applications for different surfaces and project durations.

Tools and materials

  • 3M Hand-Masker Masking Film 72"

What they say

Hide

now i've got a bunch of different tapes right here uh paper and plastic and these are all the products i use when it comes to you know masking uh or masking cabinets masking the flooring um the boxes and everything in your face frames and masking the walls and stuff so i'm going to talk a little bit about you know each one of them i do use paper and plastic when it comes to masking in my vehicles i always only carry nine inch paper and i carry 72 inch plastic film i don't like to have to worry about stocking you know a lot of different size papers or a lot of different size plastics because then you just got to inventory a bunch and then you get familiar with using different sizes and if you run out of one size then you're all baffled what do you need to do and you feel like you can't mask because you got to go down to the store and get that size paper it's better to use multiple rows or cut your paper or fold your paper or once again same with a plastic i use 72 inch plastic film yeah shorter plastics will be a little bit cheaper but once again stocking inventory becomes a headache and a nightmare if the plastic's too long i just fold it up don't cut it and throw it out because it'll blow away in the wind or just make a big mess track around the place i just fold it tack it so i use nine inch paper 72 inch plastic film and then i use a variety of tapes from sure tape so shirt tape as the manufacturer of frog tape and i got a lot of different frog tapes if i'm going to be masking on anything that's a delicate surface anything like wallpaper uh faux finishes decorative finishes i would be using a yellow frog tape when it comes to doing cabinets you know that's typically pretty rare when it comes to doing the face frames when i'm masking the face frames i'm going to be using frog tape green so i'll be masking the frayed the face frames with frog tape green and i'll be using the paper in plastic i use uh inch and a half and you'll see know some of the techniques when it comes to masking you know what it looks like and why use this size to use inch and a half to mask the insides of the face frames any type of production we use frog tape orange frog tape orange is a production tape significantly cheaper than the other frog tape versions like frog tape green or yellow this is a production style tape so typically doing cabinets you're uh you're gonna be masking on these doors masking on these face frames and stuff cabinets are a a multi-day job they usually take…

Auto-generated from the video audio.