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Caulking Masking Tape Technique

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Addressing a viewer's question, the host explains the technique of caulking masking tape. He clarifies that while FrogTape (blue and green) has a polymer that seals when wet, caulking is still necessary on textured or bumpy surfaces, like orange peel walls, to prevent paint bleed. For smooth surfaces like glass or level 5 walls, caulking isn't typically required. He highlights that this method ensures a crisp, straight paint line even on irregular textures.

Goal: Learn when and why to caulk masking tape for sharp paint lines.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk Gun — Applying caulk
  • Caulk — Sealing the edges of masking tape
  • FrogTape — Masking off areas to be painted

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that it's on the 71 flip it so the improvement on the five and one finally came and I liked it so much we put it in our store and it's stored up the I know Peter calm so there it is okay the exceptions for me so hey guys with the new blue frog tape do you think it's necessary to your tape oh yeah that's a good question I just posted a video compilation on caulking their tape and it's about it's about like 45 minutes long it's better than any video I think I've ever posted over a thousand videos in a weeks period of time it's now it's like the best it is crazy because it's it's actually a compilation of videos that I've done in the past on caulking your tape and yes there's there's a time and a place for everything and there's times the way we still our frog tape so blue frog tape is the same as green frog tape it has the polymer on the edge of the tape that swells when liquid hits it but on glass no need to caulk but if you're on a rough surface the the tape itself sometimes cannot contour to the peaks and valleys of the surface itself so if you're trying to give a level 5 it means it's smooth so you like glass so you wouldn't need to caulk your tape there if you're on any smooth surface no but if you're trying to do a straight line on an orange peel texture wall we always caulk art but I think that's where people have gotten confused about what you do because they don't understand orange peel there's a lot of countries and even different states they don't have orange peel yeah a lot of people see us like uncocking our tape on a wall like this if you look at the wall like this in the video you probably can you probably think it's a smooth wall I don't know if you can see the texture that's a heavy textured wall that's like um a texture guy who had no clue what the heck he was doing and he wasted the walls I mean our walls the texture job on our walls in our house here is really really bad and I am so nice that I volunteer to fix it by doing Venetian plaster yes it does the easy posture in it it takes me a lot just to get the walls smooth um flat to do a Venetian plaster because the the walls are so rough so in Canada we stand walls four times walls like glass yeah and that's if you want like a level five finish and so I know like in Canada the other parts even other parts of United States smooth walls are very popular here they're very rare so everything is predominantly in Idaho is

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