Comments on: Stop Paint From Seeping Under Painters Tape

By: striped walls, paint, color,

striped walls, paint, color, — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:18:32 +0000

[...] are two other techniques shared by The Painter Lady that I find extremely helpful. First, paint across the line with the existing paint color, leaving little to no room for the new [...]

By: Paint Lady Co.

Paint Lady Co. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:34:06 +0000

Clear faux glazing liquid works great to seal the tape edge before painting stripes, dries fast too! Be sure to paint a total wall base coat first of any of the final stripe colors.

By: THAT Painter Lady

THAT Painter Lady — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:13:05 +0000

Hi Jeanette…

Oh. my gosh… what a pain to have to paint over again. The ruler might bleed under. The tape probably left a sharp enough line that you can
see clearly… just use your tiny brush to go along the edge. It really will be much less work that trying to use the ruler.

Good luck!

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:03:47 +0000

Today I painted 3 beautiful stripes in my client’s sons room. I used blue tape and went over the tape twice to ensure it was tightly taped to the smooth wall. But it all bleed…..a disaster. So tomorrow it’s recovery time. I think I will use a 12″ clear sewing ruler and hold it tight at the edge of the painted stripe and then with a tiny brush put only a minimal amount of the base colour paint to paint a straight line and hope it doesn’t bleed onto the new stripe. I may have to do this twice for two coats to cover the medium toned stripes. It will take a long time but better than redoing everything. Otherwise the stripes look really cool. I will have to wipe the clear ruler with a wet rag and dry it before moving on to paint the next section to be fixed.

By: Paul0709

Paul0709 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:00:35 +0000

Thank you very much for your tip on first painting over the tape with the base color (or clear coat), because after I “erased” (with primer and base color) my first attempt at striping my daughter’s room, the second set of stripes came out razer sharp! I should add that it helps to get the tape off within a couple of hours so that the double coat of paint on the edges doesn’t harden — otherwise you may have to use a blade to score the paint at the edges of the tape.