Here are seven alternate uses for painters tape to help you out around the
house. Tip number seven,
this kind of nasty splintering that's going on here. This is called tear out.
And this is what happens when your saw blades come up through the surface of the
wood. And you can see, for example, on the Skillsaw here,
the teeth are pointing this way when it spins, it spins this way.
And that means the saw blade is coming up through the top surface here,
which is causing this tear out right here. On a table saw for example,
the teeth point down and they come out through the bottom of the wood.
So some painters tape can really help us with this.
Watch what happens with no painters tape,
Pretty gnarly, definitely a, very bad cut, not something we want.
Let's do the same thing with a bit of painters tape on there.
Push that down, run it again.
Now, when you remove that painter's tape, much better.
Number six,
you can use some painters tape to help keep things clean while you're drilling
into drywall. So I've got these couple of pieces of tape here.
Let's say I need to drill a hole right here on this drywall.
I'm just gonna place this and kind of a U shape.
Like,
so basically it just makes a little pocket for things to fall
into. Then when I go to drill the hole,
Catching all that powder, and then if you need to drill any further,
it will even catch any wood chips or shavings that come out.
And then when you're done, It all stays here in the tape.
Painter's tape was actually invented in 1988 by 3m,
the same company that invented its predecessor masking tape.
Unlike masking tape, the painter's tape, didn't leave that sticky residue.
And quick tip,
if you do have some sticky residue from masking tape hanging around your house,
you can use some WD 40 to wipe that right off.
Number five painter's tape makes a great guide for getting perfect caulking
lines. So let's say for example,
we need to run a bead of caulking right here on this joint.
We can use our painters tape to carefully lay a nice guide,
an equidistant amount away on the base,
as well as on the wall here.
Like so. We'll push that down and make sure that's on there good and tight.
Then when we go to apply the caulking,
and while that's still wet, remove that
and remove that. There you go.
Number four on the list is adding little strips of blue tape on your tape
measure to write down your measurements as you make them. Now,
this is kind of a two part tip here.
The first thing is to put those down and write 'em down. And the cool thing is,
let's say you're taking a measurement inside your house, for example,
and you need it from A to B, you write that down.
Then you have to walk out to where your saw is maybe in your garage or your
shop.
The second part of this tip here is that you can actually just tape that piece
of tape with its measurement right onto the board.
So you know exactly which measurement that board is. Also,
if you ever wondered why painters tape is blue like this it's because they chose
this color to stand out from the rest of the colors that you might paint.
In fact, 3m trademark to this color. So you shouldn't see many others like it,
though you will see quite a few at the hardware store that are awfully similar.
Next is when you need a certain depth on your drill bit and you don't wanna
drill too far again, painters tape to the rescue.
So let's say you only want to drill a quarter inch deep.
You can place your drill bit, line it up with the edge of a ruler, for example,
take a bit of tape and put it right on that quarter.
Then we create a little flag.
And so we're just gonna make them connect over on this end.
And then basically that's your quarter inch right there.
And as soon as your flag here starts clearing away the wood chips,
then you're all set Wood at this blue flag on here,
you can pretty easily see exactly when that makes contact with the surface of
the wood. And you know, you're done.
The hole is drilled to the exact depth that we needed. Now,
one issue we've run into before is where we've painted a wall like this one.
And then we forget later on what the exact color was that we used and when it
was that it was painted.
So there's a little trick we can use with some painters tape and the light
switch cover plate. When you're finishing up painting,
before you put your cover plates back on, just take a piece of painter's tape,
and
on there you can write down any information you need to about the paint and the
date that you painted.
You can place that right in the middle of your switch plate.
Then next time you go to paint or the next person does they'll have the details
about how long that's been painted and what the exact color was that was used.
Also, don't be a barbarian and leave your screw heads like that. Just, you know,
indulge us, OCD, people and straighten those things out so they look beautiful.
Ah.
Much better. Now this one is just a bonus tip, not part of my normal seven here,
but if you do have a role that's getting pretty low and you have a safe way to
cut it.
You can actually cut this up into small pieces so that you have a bunch of small
stickers or labels that you can use for things in the kitchen in particular,
or just labels around the house.
Now, our number one tip is called blue and glue.
And this is a technique I learned from my buddy, Robert at Rask Guitars.
And basically what we're gonna do is use some of this blue tape.
We'll put some of this down on one surface and then down on the other,
and we'll use some glue to temporarily connect two pieces that we can then
remove later, whenever we're ready.
Once you've got your surfaces prepped, you've got a couple of options.
The cheapest and probably easiest way is actually just to use super glue and a
bit of moisture.
So I've got a sponge here that I've gotten a little bit wet that you can apply
to one side and then super glue on the other. Now,
what I found is the gel doesn't actually work real well.
So you wanna get the standard or traditional,
super glue that's nice and runny and liquidy.
And that reacts really well to the water.
It acts as an accelerator to help it bond immediately.
Now another option that's a little bit nicer and most people don't have this,
but if you do, it's a great way to move things quickly.
This is called CA or Cyanoacrylate glue.
And then this here is a can of accelerator.
I'm gonna show you how this works real quick.
We'll place a little bit of this glue on to our
one side here, And then I'm gonna spray the other side,
making sure not to get on the glue at all with accelerator.
Then when I place the two together, they'll react.
Gonna push down hard on this for just a few seconds, okay?
And that should be all it takes. Now, this is rock solid in place.
It's not going anywhere. And you can use this to temporarily,
keep these two pieces together when you're all done with that,
and you're ready to remove them.
You can use a standard chisel and you can pry these apart and they'll come
apart.
A lot of times you can actually take this off and then the glue will hold the
tape together so that you can put the tape onto another surface to glue it on
there temporarily as well. Now,
if you're wondering why I'm gluing a 2x4 to the floor of my house,
that's a good question.
I've got a video right here where I can show you how you can actually use that
2xr to fix gaps that exist in your laminate flooring or floating floor.
So be sure to check that out. Thanks for watching.