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Optimize Drying and Masking Times

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What To Paint First With A Paint Sprayer. Painting Steps With A Sprayer. Painting Tips.

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To significantly reduce the drying time of paint, especially trim, and allow for quicker masking, it is recommended to increase the room temperature. The instructor suggests raising the temperature to around 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. With this accelerated drying, a quality masking tape (such as 3M 2020) can typically be applied over the freshly sprayed trim about four hours later without pulling off the paint, assuming the trim was properly prepped beforehand.

Goal: Accelerate paint drying to reduce project time and allow for efficient masking.

Tools and materials

  • Thermostat — Controlling room temperature
  • Masking Tape — Masking over dried paint

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jack the temperature up to about 80° when we're spraying our trim. But once our trim is sprayed, typically in about 4 hours later, the tape that we use, we can actually go back and tape over that trim and to uh begin rolling our walls. And that's the tape we use. We use a product from 3M called 2020 and it can be masked over the trim typically in about 4 hours and it won't actually pull off the paint if your trim is prepped properly. If you do have any questions

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