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Alternative Method: Base Color Seal

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STOP Paint Bleeding Under Tape | Painting Straight Lines

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  • Dark Blue Flat Paint
  • FrogTape Orange FrogTape
  • Paint Roller
  • White Paint

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caulk it and I can paint right away because I can't paint right away with the other nut because you have to wait for the white paint to dry so I know um there are some painters out there that have explained that on you know some of my social media accounts that's how I used to paint and try to get laser straight lines before I discovered this method right here so I'll pull it off and there is a laser straight line so now I'm comparing this with the orange and the Frog tape green if you're really particular about your lines the Frog tape green even had a straighter line and then the Frog tape orange even though that even though that was pretty dang good that's a production tape this is a premium tape with a polymer on the outside and so that's a little bit of wide you know paint is bleeding underneath your tape and how to resolve that [Music] foreign so I'm going to show you the the final method you know how what it actually looks like and this is the method I used to use I don't know about 20 years ago when um it came to getting straight lines and it was painting the color that's underneath the tape over the top of the tape and it'll bleed underneath the tank and seal those edges and then you go over the top of it with whatever color you're going to and then pull your tape and you get into the same line with that look I'm going to take you know my tank the old mask on the wall and then underneath it is the white color that's the color I want to stay then I'm going to just take you know roll over the top of that white and that's going to seal The Edge if the paint is thick enough and yo this method Yo's typically going to turn out and have you know a few spots bleeding and stuff because if your Peaks and valleys you know are too high for the paint to actually seal it there's more viscosity to your caulking it's a lot thicker it's going to seal larger gas now I have to wait for this to dry in order to paint my other color over the top of it for obvious reasons because we don't want to mix two colors together the other methods you put your caulking on and you actually apply your coughing before or you apply your paint before the caulking dries and then before the caulking and the paint dries you pull your tape and you'll have this laser straight line This method right here when you um apply your white paint you're having paint That's bridging over the top of your tape to your wall that dries and you put your other tape over the top of it when you pull your…

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