How to Tape & Spot Prime Before Painting a Bathroom

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Hello, My name's Grady Johnson and I am a professional painter and today I represent Expert Village dot com. Now I am going to talk a little bit about taping and priming. Now you want to go ahead and tape first, because if you're going to do any priming, you want to be able to work around places you're going to tape. Now I don't do a lot of taping because I'm a painter and I know how to cut a pretty sharp line. However, if you're not a painter, and you're new to this, you may want to consider doing the taping as much as you can simply, because it's going to give you a sharp line. Now always use the blue painters' tape, the blue tape doesn't stick as much as the yellow tape does, and it's going to do a much better job. Okay, now when we look at the area, we can see here that all of our prep work's already been done. We've gone over it, we've wiped it all down, but it still looks like we can hit this a little more so I am going to just knock it a little bit; sometimes it's just another angle it needs, eh it looks alright, that's not too bad, up and up. I'm going to hit it again with my sandpaper to be sure. And, that's the way this work is, you're going to go back over, you can see places you've missed, just pick it up as you go. Once you're satisfied with that wipe it down with your tack cloth, at this point I'd just carry a tack cloth with you because you're going to want to be sure the area is good and clean, and then I'd lift the window a little bit, to see what you've got to work with. So dust the area down real good, and start your taping. Now use the blue tape it's going to work best for you and it's going to make a much prettier line. That way when it comes off it's going to come off clean. So go ahead and pull it out, and start it in the corner. Once you've got the corner set just bring it on down. Okay, now you just want to work that; now see how I'm pulling it out as I go and then working it with my fingers to get it in where I want it. And, you just bring that on down. Straighten it all up, then you just even it on out with your blade; pull it up along that line. Now, this can be your best friend if you're not really sharp with a brush. Once we have everything taped off well, we're going to want to do our spot priming okay. I'm going to show you that now, even though I would normally just finish taping everywhere along here. I have a little spot that I can do right here, just to give you a rough idea, so we're going to go ahead and do the spot priming right here as we go along, once we have that taped off. I don't do a lot of taping because, I can, I can do it, I just want to kind of show you how that works. We want to go ahead and prime this area and just get that primer in all the areas that are raw there like you see here, now you can see this oil paint does cover really, really, well and it's going to seal that all up. Just be careful not to get it up on that other surface. And, just kind of spread that around a little bit. Alright, now you see how it kind of pulled up on my primer so I'll have to go back over that. Now a lot of times when you're working you're going to see little areas that need more and you're going to do that. Now remember whenever you spot primer, don't leave little lines on here, just feather the stuff out a little bit. Okay, and these new oils dry much faster than the old oils did, so you do need to move them a little quicker than you did with the old, old paints. If you used to paint in oil and you're used to it drying really slow, this is going to go much faster for you. Alright, well I've got that place spot primed, now I've got a few other places I want to tape and I've got some other priming I need to do around the room. But these are just a few of the things to keep in mind whenever you're doing your taping and your priming to prepare your room for painting in oil paint.

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