Fold Sandpaper into Thirds

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When sanding by hand, especially with sandpaper sheets or rolls, fold the sandpaper into thirds. Many DIYers flatten the sandpaper in their hand, which makes it difficult to grip and less effective. Folding it into thirds creates a more rigid shape, providing a comfortable grip and exposing three abrasive surfaces for sanding. This method significantly improves control and prolongs the life of the sandpaper. If you have a sanding block, that's ideal, but this folding technique is a great alternative for manual sanding.

Goal: Improve grip and efficiency when sanding by hand.

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Sandpaper roll/sheet Mirka — Sanding surfaces

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is about sandpaper so as a decorator i use a lot of this stuff and it comes in big rolls like this if you go to your local hardware store you probably get it in in little sheets um and what i see a lot of diys doing let me just tear a bit off here what i see a lot of diys doing is they've got the sandpaper like that in their hand and it's really really hard to grip onto when they're sanding down the wall um a lot of people use sanded blocks which are great if you've got one use that as perfect if you haven't you just want to use it by hand what i would say is fold it into thirds so one fold two fold and then you've got one side another side and then sandpaper onto paper so that it stops it slipping about so if you were to just fold it in half see it's sliding about which makes it really painful and annoying on the wall so if you fold it to third you've got abrasion on all sides and then you've also got three sides to sand so when you open it up just fold that bit over and there you go nice easy tip okay so

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