The difference between a sloppy painting job and achieving a clean, professional result can be determined by the care and amount of time you put in masking surfaces and fixtures. It becomes more critical if you will be doing spray painting. It is the same whether you are doing interior or exterior painting projects.
There are several reasons why doing a proper masking job is worth the money, effort and time.
- Achieve that professional result. Do you want to get the clean and straight finish between colors and surfaces? Do your masking properly.
- Masking saves you from doing touch-up jobs. Without masking opposite surfaces from where you are painting, you cannot be careful enough especially if you are not a professional, you will most often than not, get paint to the opposite surface. It is downright impossible without using tape of proper coverage of the opposite side. Just one drop of point that ends up in the wrong surface is a recipe for trouble and additional touch-up job.
- Masking helps you to save on cleanup time. Let’s face it, it is more difficult to repair small amount of paint on the wrong surface that it is to paint the whole surface. You do not want to waste your energy and time by doing more laborious cleanup work compared to actually painting the surface that you want. Imagine if the paint landed on fixtures like switches, outlets, carpets or cabinets. The cleanup will involve scraping with knife or razor blades. Your time is better spent painting than cleaning. With the proper masking job, you will do just that.
- Faster painting job. You may spend more effort in masking surfaces and fixtures; but just consider the speed at which you will finish the job when you start the actual painting, it will be worth the effort. Just do not forget the press the tape firmly to the edges to avoid getting bleeding paint across surfaces.
- Masking keeps fixtures like doorknobs, hinges working properly. Using painter’s masking tape to protect this fixture will not just protect them from drops or blobs of paint, this will also help avoid possible malfunction from paint that will become stuck if you did not mask them. This will also help keep the visual appeal of the room that will otherwise be distracting if you have accidentally painted doorknobs or hinges.
- Use of drop cloth with masking helps to protect horizontal surfaces like carpet and floor or furniture gathered together in the center of the room.
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