How to Tape for Painting Stripes on a Wall

Video Transcript

"Today I'm going to teach you how to paint a room with stripes in this clip. Now let's talk about finally how to tape your walls. You can see we've been doing some taping already but it's very important, of course, to use this quality tape. You don't want, as we discussed in earlier clips, to use too strong of tape. Now we did let the walls on our first coat of paint sit for more than twenty-four hours. I always like to let it sit for about a day before I start taping the walls. This is great tape though because it's good quality tape. It's not as sticky as some of the other painter's tape that you can get and so it's good for freshly painted surfaces. That 's key. Always look for tape that is good to be used on freshly painted surfaces. You may be wondering why am I wearing these goggles, well if you opted just to use a level when you drew your lines on the walls, no problem but as you can see here, we're going to in this case use the laser level. Well the red tinted goggles here help me to see the laser a little more brighter than I would without them. So I'm going to leave these on and what I'm going to do is, I'm going to tape from the top down. Here I can see my line you might not be able to see it my little hash mark because we are eight inches apart and when you're taping you have to keep in mind that wherever you're going to be taping in your stripe you need to tape outside of that so you take your edge and you want to make sure that your taping in this case, or painting rather, eight inches on the inside so that's a very important thing to remember. But when you're doing this and you're putting your tape up on the wall, you're going to go up to the very top point and then as you're going down you need to be very careful to make sure that there are no bubbles in your tape. This is the most important part it's going to take a long time to do and it's going to be worth it in the end I assure you when you see the final product but I don't want you to be disappointed by painting and then having a bubble in your tape and then that bubble of course means that it's going to bleed into the tape, so you need to make sure that you have very clean, very smooth edges on your tape here and you want to push that out either you'll definitely be able to feel it with your finger, that's what I tend to use is just my hand and just run over it and push it, especially on the edge that we're going to be painting, or you can use something like a spoon as well or like a spatula to really push any air out that would be under the tape."