Painting A 3 Color Wall

AHS

I'm doing an estimate for painting a showroom for a supply company. They want 2/3 of the wall gray then a 2 inck black strip & everything above the black strip red.

The gray & red part will be easy but Ive never tried painting a 2 inck black strip before. Would I just measure down from the ceiling all around the room & put tape above & below where I want the black strip.

Cant really think of any other way to do it but I just wanted to run it by you guys first.

Thanks

kbdesigns

Use blue painters tape so you don't take any of the paint off your wall. Take a putty knife or something with straight edge and burnish the take to prevent any seepage.

I forget what they are called but I use one of those lazar lines to get an even line.

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JMGP

You could do it that way OR... start out by using your 9" or even a sausage roller and roll around the room making sure you will be in the zone for the black strip....

let that dry, then measure down from ceiling and mark where the TOP of the black line would be and place 2" tape below that line making sure it is firmly in place and straight...

THEN paint your red and grey... when done pull tape and theres your black line.....


If you place place the tape above and below a mark AFTER red and grey... you are making more work for yourself... If the line was BIGGER than 2" then you would use that method BUT... there's 2" in tape available....

Good Luck


Joe

Dale

That would work. I think it would be a good idea to paint black over both edges of the tape so any bleed through would be black. Let it dry and then do the colors. The only down side would be the dry time.

firemike

AHS,

They make a special tape just for that puropse (lines) It has about as much tack as a post-it note, is thin, and doesn't bleed underneath unless the wall is rough (heavy roller stipple, etc.) I but mine at Sherwin-Williams, can't remember what it is called- something like Strait-Line or something. It is 1" wide so you would do 2 strips side-by-side. I have also used the Scotch #218 Fine Line tape, usually get it at an automotive (paint & body work) type of store, and I believe it comes in 2" widths too.

I would do it just like Joe (JMGP) said, paint the black first, then you only have to let 1 color dry before you do the other two. I have tried the blue tape for stripes, but it is still too sticky. The blue tape is considered "medium" adhesion, it's main purpose is it has a longer application time (up to 14 days) and it will still come off cleanly without leaving residue and isn't affected by sunlight as bad as regular masking tape.

CarlW

Paint bleeding underneath tape has nothing to do with the tape itself and everything to do with how the tape itself is applied. The kind of tape chosen is more based on how much tack the tape has. I think it is hilarious that we see this 3M commecial for their blue tape on TV where they say something like it always leaves clean paint lines with no bleed...of course this message is aimed at homeowners who have taped in the past and always get bleed because they don't know how to tape...so then they see this ad, get the magic no-bleed tape from 3M and still have bleed and then what?

lornmastro

i still swear on the blue 3m tape 2080 with the orange inside...then i heard...don't know if its true to paint a little glaze on the tape line to prevent bleed thru....then use the lazer light to make your line will save you a ton of time

johnjamesalaska

Paint the grey a little farther than the end product. Allow it to dry. Get some low adhesive tape and run the black down to the tape. It can be a little bigger than the final product.(two inches and a half?) Then allow tot dry. Then tape the line exactly covering two inches of the black, and paint the red.