Tips For Tape & Painting Baseboard Over Floor

tyler durden

I hate most the painting of baseboard that has no shoe and is over wood or tile.

How are you all doing this and not geting any lines on the floor?

paint first? mask up 1/8"?

I know on most projects this does not matter much, but for perfection, what would you do?

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ProWallGuy

A good brush and a steady hand.

Really.

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ewingpainting

I sling it free hand, every time I use tape it gets messier it seems.

I found that if you practice balancing a pool stick on your hand. You can train you hand to cut a straight line.

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CaptainAmerica

Tape is time, and time is...

ewingpainting

balancing a pool stick on your hand

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CaptainAmerica

Honestly, I don't see what that has to do with anything. It may help to steady your hand I suppose (shaking), but the paint should steady ones hand sufficiently in my experience... Unless of course the HO happens to have a microscope.

ewingpainting

I was wondering when someone was going to take that serious

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CaptainAmerica

Yes, I managed to learn to cut a strait enough line on any surfface with either hand. Some pick it up faster than others though, I think. It only took me 7 or 8 years.. good thing I started early.

I think I just cried a little? (started early?) what was I thinking?

ewingpainting

If I hold my hand out I shake like old washing machine. but when I put a brush in my hand and cut in it's as straight as can be. it amazes my family. Just practice practice practice. and not wanting to clean up

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tyler durden

yea i would freehand it if i were brushing,
but since i am spraying i figure i might as well spray all trim. Then paint the walls.

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CaptainAmerica

Your spraying baseboard where you need to keep it off the floor? Sounds difficult... The only thing I could tell ya is to just pull the tape tight in sections, and run a scraper along the tape to seal it, or slip it underneath the base where possible.

CaptainAmerica

Thats funny!

Flawless Finish

I'm in the middle of a 150 room hotel renovation. With one other guy, we're filling holes on all the preprimed trim in the hotel and painting two coats over it. The floors in the hotel are wood as well so I've had a lot of unwanted experience lately with trim on wood floors and how to do it quick and look good.

Just run your line as close as you can to the floor. This might require you to get real low to the ground (almost all the way on the ground). If you happen to hit the floor, wait for it to dry a second, then put a rag around a putty knife and put a corner of the putty knife right in the corner of the wood floor and the baseboard and drag it where you hit the floor. It will clean it up and make your line look real straight.

I'd actually rather paint trim in a room with has tile or wood compared to carpet though. I hate having to use tools to pull the carpet back.

Bill

I have never tried tape. I can free hand pretty well I guess. I am no painter, but I can paint a window that has 12 panes of glass (6 upper and 6 lower) in about 15 minutes and no, there is no paint on the glass!

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artinall

Ditto, and if you are doing against wood or tile you may want to go HVLP if you can. But if it were me I'd probably go with the brush and load it light, stroking to avoid the lower build that results in seepage. If tile, know if the grout had been sealed for afterward cleanup.

Anyone tried that 'razor' tape that's out now?

ewingpainting

Two Questions.

What exactly are you stroking? and Lower build of what?

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CaptainAmerica

The spread of the paint... He's talking about keeping sure the bristles are well enough off the the edge of the base to allow for the paint to run "naturally" settling just off the floor.

ewingpainting

WHEW

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CaptainAmerica

Yep.


Or better way to explaine it might be (accounting for the wake created by the brush)?

artinall

ewingpainting, Don't normally respond to taglines but this I especially like.
(considered seperate from the post here)

I consider an ability to seen ones own faults as possibly one of the best things a person can offer. Honest, open awareness. Without bias or denial as a way of taking responsibility.

But I realize this is off-topic!