A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a response,
which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but resulted in a
perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

"Gene Casey" wrote in message
...
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a response,
which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but resulted in a
perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

I would say ........ make sure the base coat is very dry ............ use
tape .......... pull tape with paint wet .............

Steve

Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a
response, which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but
resulted in a perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Paint one wall slopping over a bit to adjacent. Let dry, tape that
wall, paint over the taped edge to adjacent wall with same paint and
let dry to seal edge. Paint second wall, remove tape.

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In article vnIhj.51178$8Z1.4448@trnddc05, "dadiOH" wrote:
Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a
response, which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but
resulted in a perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Paint one wall slopping over a bit to adjacent. Let dry, tape that
wall,

Seems to me that this step

paint over the taped edge to adjacent wall with same paint and
let dry to seal edge.

isn't necessary. What's the purpose?

Paint second wall, remove tape.


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It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

Doug Miller wrote:
In article vnIhj.51178$8Z1.4448@trnddc05, "dadiOH"
wrote:
Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a
response, which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but
resulted in a perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Paint one wall slopping over a bit to adjacent. Let dry, tape that
wall,

Seems to me that this step

paint over the taped edge to adjacent wall with same paint and
let dry to seal edge.

isn't necessary. What's the purpose?

As stated, to seal the edge. Otherwise the second paint color will
wick under to the first color wall.

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We seal the edge of the tape with a very small bead of cheap caulking which
is also spread as thin as possible with your finger, then paint. The
caulking will keep any paint from bleeding under the tape.

cm


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In article vnIhj.51178$8Z1.4448@trnddc05, "dadiOH"
wrote:
Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a
response, which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but
resulted in a perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Paint one wall slopping over a bit to adjacent. Let dry, tape that
wall,

Seems to me that this step

paint over the taped edge to adjacent wall with same paint and
let dry to seal edge.

isn't necessary. What's the purpose?

As stated, to seal the edge. Otherwise the second paint color will
wick under to the first color wall.

--

dadiOH
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On Jan 11, 8:23*am, "CM" wrote:
We seal the edge of the tape with a very small bead of cheap caulking which
is also spread as thin as possible with your finger, then paint. The
caulking will keep any paint from bleeding under the tape.

cm

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wrote:
Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a
response, which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but
resulted in a perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Paint one wall slopping over a bit to adjacent. *Let dry, tape that
wall,

Seems to me that this step

paint over the taped edge to adjacent wall with same paint and
let dry to seal edge.

isn't necessary. What's the purpose?

As stated, to seal the edge. *Otherwise the second paint color will
wick under to the first color wall.

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You don't need to prime the caulk before painting?

"CM" wrote in
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We seal the edge of the tape with a very small bead of cheap caulking
which is also spread as thin as possible with your finger, then paint.
The caulking will keep any paint from bleeding under the tape.

cm


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Doug Miller wrote:
In article vnIhj.51178$8Z1.4448@trnddc05, "dadiOH"
wrote:
Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a
response, which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but
resulted in a perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Paint one wall slopping over a bit to adjacent. Let dry, tape that
wall,

Seems to me that this step

paint over the taped edge to adjacent wall with same paint and
let dry to seal edge.

isn't necessary. What's the purpose?

As stated, to seal the edge. Otherwise the second paint color will
wick under to the first color wall.

--

dadiOH
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We seal the edge of the tape with a very small bead of cheap caulking

"We"? Just curious.

Anyway, I've never used blue painters tape. Not sure what the premium
price is for. Doesn't wick maybe? Low adhesion? Masking tapes come in
various adhesions (1,2,3,x day, etc).

I have used the brown painter's tape gummed on one edge on one side.
Works excellent on glass (grids that are fixed). Being rigid laterally,
it gives a nice straight line. Would not be good where a wall meets a
ceiling since that is never really straight. Developed a knack for
freehanding that pretty well.

Gene Casey wrote:

A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a response,
which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but resulted in a
perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.


The number of coats depends on type of paint and what color you need to
cover. I haven't found a paint
that is "one coat", regardless of how it is advertised. Some deep
colors, esp. blue and red, are labelled
to indicate they require more coats - just the nature of certain pigments.

If the wall isn't textured, then painter's tape will work fine if used
correctly - it is not the same as beige
masking tape, and there are different degrees of adhesion. Blue and
light green?

The paint should be cured, not just dry, in order to be sure the tape
won't pull off new coat of paint. I've
taped over new paint after 2 days, but to be sure it won't hurt to wait
couple of weeks. Press the tape
firmly when you apply it, and take it off before the new paint sets,
otherwise you might pull off the paint film
that has dried onto the tape. When you pull the tape off, don't pull it
out from the wall - start the end of
tape and pull it flat back on itself; that helps keep paint film from
pulling off wall.

You might find that the corner of a wall is not perfectly straight and
plumb - often see little curves. Adjust
your tape to get it so it looks right before you paint. Use good paint,
not the HD crap.

dadiOH - This is the technique I remember seeing. Thanks for
refreshing my memory. Until someone tries it, they won't believe
how razor sharp the edge is.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:59:48 GMT, "dadiOH"
wrote:

Doug Miller wrote:
In article vnIhj.51178$8Z1.4448@trnddc05, "dadiOH"
wrote:
Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a
response, which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but
resulted in a perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Paint one wall slopping over a bit to adjacent. Let dry, tape that
wall,

Seems to me that this step

paint over the taped edge to adjacent wall with same paint and
let dry to seal edge.

isn't necessary. What's the purpose?

As stated, to seal the edge. Otherwise the second paint color will
wick under to the first color wall.

In article , Gene Casey
wrote:

A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a response,
which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but resulted in a
perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

1. Paint the wall with the base color. Let dry.

2. Apply tape where you want it.

3. Paint another coat of base color only over the edge of the tape. Let
dry. (Any paint that seeps under the tape will match the base color,
and the edge of the tape will be sealed against further seepage.)

4. Paint accent color. Let dry.

5. Remove tape.

-Frank

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On Jan 11, 9:21 am, Red Green wrote:
"CM" wrote

Anyway, I've never used blue painters tape. Not sure what the premium
price is for. Doesn't wick maybe? Low adhesion? Masking tapes come in
various adhesions (1,2,3,x day, etc).

I dunno what constitutes a "premium" price - I usually pay about $1.50
for a roll of painters tape, doesn't seem too unreasonable...

I'm the opposite of you, I've never really understood what plain
masking tape is good for. We used it once because we ran out of
painters tape and, like everybody else, we just keep masking tape
around the house for little odd projects. Well, obviously, the paint
seeped right through it. It wasn't that it went under the edge, it
just seeped right through the tape. We ended up having to go out and
buy some painters tape anyway and then repaint the edge.

I'm not sure what the point of masking tape really is, but it
obviously isn't to mask paint.

As far as getting a straight edge, like a lot of things in painting I
think people make it out to be a lot more complicated than it is.
Tape, paint, pull off, done. If you don't do any one of those steps
properly, you won't get a straight edge. Do them properly, though,
and you will.

In article ,
says...

On Jan 11, 9:21 am, Red Green wrote:
"CM" wrote

Anyway, I've never used blue painters tape. Not sure what the premium
price is for. Doesn't wick maybe? Low adhesion? Masking tapes come in
various adhesions (1,2,3,x day, etc).

I dunno what constitutes a "premium" price - I usually pay about $1.50
for a roll of painters tape, doesn't seem too unreasonable...

I'm the opposite of you, I've never really understood what plain
masking tape is good for. We used it once because we ran out of
painters tape and, like everybody else, we just keep masking tape
around the house for little odd projects. Well, obviously, the paint
seeped right through it. It wasn't that it went under the edge, it
just seeped right through the tape. We ended up having to go out and
buy some painters tape anyway and then repaint the edge.

I'm not sure what the point of masking tape really is, but it
obviously isn't to mask paint.


It *was* to mask paint, but 3M came up with the blue tape, which was a very
superior product. Now that 'masking tape' isn't actually used to mask for
household paint much, some inferior (compared even to the old masking tape)
product has gotten out there which are OK for the other odd uses.

As far as cost - I agree; blue tape isn't *that* much more, and I value my
*time* that I'm putting into a project enough to make little investments to make
it come out right the first time.

Banty

On Jan 10, 9:46*pm, Gene Casey wrote:
A long time ago, someone asked this question and there was a response,
which I forgot. It involved tape, multiple coats, but resulted in a
perfect straight line. Anyone remember?
Thanks.

Here's a link to an old thread about this topic (watch out for wrap):

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.h...590afc7a72eae1

Ken