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Hello my name's Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to teach
you how to paint a room with stripes in this clip. Now let's talk about finally how to
tape your walls. You can see we've been doing some taping already but it's very important,
of course, to use this quality tape. You don't want, as we discussed in earlier clips, to
use too strong of tape. Now we did let the walls on our first coat of paint sit for more
than twenty-four hours. I always like to let it sit for about a day before I start taping
the walls. This is great tape though because it's good quality tape. It's not as sticky
as some of the other painter's tape that you can get and so it's good for freshly painted
surfaces. That 's key. Always look for tape that is good to be used on freshly painted
surfaces. You may be wondering why am I wearing these goggles, well if you opted just to use
a level when you drew your lines on the walls, no problem but as you can see here, we're
going to in this case use the laser level. Well the red tinted goggles here help me to
see the laser a little more brighter than I would without them. So I'm going to leave
these on and what I'm going to do is, I'm going to tape from the top down. Here I can
see my line you might not be able to see it my little hash mark because we are eight inches
apart and when you're taping you have to keep in mind that wherever you're going to be taping
in your stripe you need to tape outside of that so you take your edge and you want to
make sure that your taping in this case, or painting rather, eight inches on the inside
so that's a very important thing to remember. But when you're doing this and you're putting
your tape up on the wall, you're going to go up to the very top point and then as you're
going down you need to be very careful to make sure that there are no bubbles in your
tape. This is the most important part it's going to take a long time to do and it's going
to be worth it in the end I assure you when you see the final product but I don't want
you to be disappointed by painting and then having a bubble in your tape and then that
bubble of course means that it's going to bleed into the tape, so you need to make sure
that you have very clean, very smooth edges on your tape here and you want to push that
out either you'll definitely be able to feel it with your finger, that's what I tend to
use is just my hand and just run over it and push it, especially on the edge that we're
going to be painting, or you can use something like a spoon as well or like a spatula to
really push any air out that would be under the tape.