Understand Paint Bleed on Rough Surfaces

recently asked me on one of my social media accounts why is paint leading underneath my tape and I'm going to discuss and show you why I've got a product right here this is frog tape orange this is a production tape it's a kind of just an everyday tape that you would use you know on painting So this tape itself right here I'm going to put some on the wall and we're going to paint over it and you're going to see what happens we're going to be using a product right here this is a dark blue color right here a flat paint dark blue colors any type of colors the darker they are the thinner they are and they are a liquid and a liquid will eventually bleed underneath the tape if you give it enough time and if the paint is thin enough a lot of white paints thicker paints are less likely to bleed underneath your tank but we've got a rough surface right here and uh paint more than likely would bleed underneath this because your tape has got to form all up and down all these valleys Peaks and valleys and stick to it they adhere to it if it doesn't paint significance are going to bleed underneath it I'm going to show you on a rough surface like this how you can actually stop that by using just a production tank so I'm going to put some detoxing tape on this wall right there and then I'm going to show you a method that we use using cotton uh clear copying and how that actually stops paint from bleeding underneath the tape and you're going to see what it looks