In my working days I've stopped over in many Travelodges and such. I've always noticed the walls are painted a different colour to the ceilings and that the change in colour is as far as I could see to be perfect. Do these painters have a very steady hand, or is there a technique?
Nothing much to do in a Travel Lodge is there?
Bill
I was there to sleep. If you are the aerial man, which I think you are, how goes it?
Masking tape.
Yes, and I've thought of that. But they have to be in and out in quick time. A freshly painted wall could take days to dry before masking tape could be used. It could rip the paint off the walls when removed.
It does - to the point where tape won't pull it off. I speak from better experience!
I wonder why they don't make tape backed with PostIt gum - you don't need much adhesion for cutting in, but you definately want something that doesn't pull off.
Low tack masking tape.
Emulsion paint that "takes days to dry"?
It takes days to dry 100% before masking tape can be applied and pulled off without ripping the emulsion paint off.
Is there such a thing?
Low-tack tape is available to avoid this.
yes. Screwfix, amongst others, sell it just for this purpose.
Rubbish a professional painter should be able to paint a straight line between wall and ceiling even I can do it and i have never used masking tape when decorating
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I did not know this and I'm enlightened. Thanks.
True, a genuine pro could do it freehand. Reminds me of the pinstripers at Jaguar back in the day. They'd go out for "lunch" (anywhere between 6 and 10 pints of beer) then come back and get right back on with it - totally flawless coachlines in spite of being barely able to walk in a straight line. That was just how it was back then and no one thought it the least unusual, dangerous or undesirable.
The unprofessional way I do it is... the best I can with a normal roller and brush and afterwards touch up the edges with a fine brush from my kids picture painting set.
I no longer have visible means of support, so I'm no longer an aerial man. I'm a ground based man, and quite happy with it.
Bill
Angle brush and a steady hand.
They have special tape that doesn't stick well. You can buy it with a range of "stickynesses".
Well you could always play Painter man by Boney M? Brian
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