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Mask Flooring for Painting

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Tip stopping paint bleed on your floor when painting trim! #paintingtips #howto #paintingtrim

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What happens here

Once the baseboards are installed with the gap created in the previous step, and you are ready to paint, take sheets of masking paper. Apply FrogTape or another high-quality painter's tape along one edge of the masking paper. This combination will be used to protect your finished flooring. Thanks to the gap created during installation, you can easily slide the masking paper with the tape attached underneath the baseboard. Ensure the tape adheres firmly to the floor just below the baseboard, completely sealing the gap and covering the adjacent flooring. Repeat this process along the entire length of the baseboards, overlapping sheets of masking paper as needed, until all areas of the floor adjacent to the baseboards are protected. This method ensures that paint will not bleed onto your brand new flooring, resulting in a clean and professional finish.

Goal: Protect finished flooring from paint during baseboard painting

Tools and materials

  • FrogTape FrogTape — securing masking paper and providing a clean paint line, Masking Paper N/A

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that it's actually setting on. And what that does is when I go back to actually paint it now, when I mask, I can just slide my masking paper with a frog tape underneath my baseboards. Now I'm not going to get any bleeding on my flooring at all. The hardest thing to do is when you have a brand new installed floor like this to paint these baseboards and not get any paint on the baseboard, you're trying to mask up tight to it. And so this simple little trick gives you a tiny little lip under there. And I carry care sheets of paper about this long. You know, with my frog tape on, slide it underneath, tear another one, slide it underneath. You work along under there. You'll never get any paint on your brand new flooring. Simple little tip. Use a thick export or ram board.

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