And lastly (drumroll please…) use a slightly damp rag to wipe over the edge of the Frog Tape. Use a putty knife to press the tape down and ensure the tape has good contact/adhesion to the surface. Make sure wipe down any surface before applying Frog Tape. Blue Frog Tape is also great for masking walls and trim that are fully cured, as well as any other place one might consider using a different type of tape. This tape is ideal for hard to stick to surfaces such as metal and glass.
#USING PAINTERS TAPE PRO#
The Yellow Frog Tape works best when needing to mask off cabinets, spindles, hardwood floors, or on any freshly painted surface that has not been curing for at least 3 weeks.īlue Frog Tape Pro Grade has the highest tack of any Frog Tape on the market. The low tack is just enough for the tape to stick to surfaces without being so sticky that it can cause damage. Yellow Frog Tape is the best choice when needing to mask off anything with a delicate finish. Taping off carpet and fully-cured walls are common places to use this version. Green Frog Tape has medium tack (slightly less than typical painter’s tape), and is safe on most surfaces. This multi-surface painter’s tape works across the largest variety of different tasks. Green Frog Tapeis the best choice for daily painting needs. Clean Lines with Green Frog Tape Green Frog Tape, when to use: For the professional, all of these tapes have niches which i will detail below. Soon after came the yellow “delicate surface” variety, followed a few years later by the blue Pro Painters Grade tape. Green frog tape was the first version to hit the shelves (and the marketing was brilliant). The good people at Frog Tape invested a ton of money into research and development. Clean, happy lines… GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHOICES? By eliminating paint bleed (well, drastically improving it at the very least), Frog Tape is easily one of the best industry innovations in the last 20 years. Despite the under the breath grumblings heard by old school painters around the globe, frog tape has “reinvented the wheel” of painter’s tape in the best way possible. Using Frog Tape really does make a world of difference in the ease of the painting process. Sometimes Painters Tape is Necessary Should we spend the extra dollar on frog tape?
#USING PAINTERS TAPE PROFESSIONAL#
Even the steadiest professional hand will have a hard time making crooked ceiling joints look crisp and clean without the straight edge tape can provide. This is especially prevalent in older houses that have settled over many years. Homeowner may not realize how crooked the joint can be where the wall meets the ceiling. And tape is needed, in some cases, to make wavy ceiling joints look straight. Door knobs and hinges are much easier to paint around when masked off with tape. Tight corners that don’t quite have room for a full-sized brush need tape to mask off areas that don’t get painted. Tape is needed to protect baseboard from the spritz that comes off of a roller when rolling walls. Why not just learn to paint straight lines without it and save the $6 for a beer or lottery tickets (gotta play to win)? The problem is, there are many situations when tape actually IS necessary…
After all, we bought the tape to make us look like better painters, right? As a professional, this phenomena had always made me doubt the usefulness of tape in its entirety. There is nothing more frustrating than pulling your tape up and seeing a jagged, jacked up, uneven line.
Green Frog Tape has paint blocking technologyĪnyone who has done any painting knows that paint has a way of creeping under the edge of painter’s tape. Is Frog Tape really any better than regular painter’s tape? And is it worth the extra investment, or just a gimmick to make an extra buck? Frog Tape claims to have a paint blocking technology that keeps wet paint from seeping under the edges. You will notice the tape with the frogs is a little more expensive. There is beige tape, black tape, blue tape, green tape, yellow tape, and even some tape with little frogs printed on the container. Tape ranges from 1″ to 3″ wide, or anything in between. The painter’s tape section at your local Home Depot can be overwhelming.
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