How To Mask Off Like A Pro

When it comes to painting the outside of your home with a professional spray gun, the most time consuming part will often be the preparation work. If your home is landscaped and your doors and windows are painted, you need to do extensive masking off before you can start to paint the walls. Once all the masking is done, actual spraying the paint onto the walls goes very quickly. Furthermore, the more comprehensive your masking is, the quicker you will be able to spray the walls. This article explains the best techniques add products to use when asking off exterior surfaces.

The Best Masking Materials

You will need several different types of masking materials to prep your walls before spraying them. That is, painters plastic is important, but is also nice to have large rolls of construction paper. Construction paper is better for covering up your hard walkways and concrete around the walls your painting. It is definitely better if you are going to set the ladder on these surfaces. Standing a ladder directly onto the painters plastic can be slippery and dangerous. You need to thoroughly tape down your paper to prevent it from shifting. It is also important to cover up all of the walkways around your house that you will be using, even if they are not directly under a wall you are painting. You don't want to step in paint and then spread it onto the concrete. Getting paint out of concrete can be very difficult because it is so porous.

Painters Plastic

A 0.2-0.5mm painters plastic is very convenient for masking off exterior surfaces. It is strong but light enough to cover vertical and overhanging surfaces. For instance, you can wrap it around the eaves of your roof line, completely cover window fixtures, and even drape it over trees or flowerbeds to prevent overspray from killing them. Painters plastic is easy to cut to the right size and can be securely taped down to create a temporary walkway that is safe and protective.

If you are trying to speed up the paint process, should not skip when it comes to masking off. In the end, if you don't thoroughly mask off, you could end up spending a lot of time when the job is done doing cleanup. You also don't want to interrupt your painting to get the masking materials back out to cover an area that you forgot. Contact a professional painting company, like Mike & Sons Painting Ltd., for more help.