{"id":1086,"date":"2015-12-17T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:24:40","slug":"painting-secrets-the-pros-wont-tell-you-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2015\/12\/17\/painting-secrets-the-pros-wont-tell-you-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Tape With a Putty Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"listicle--item-title\"><span class=\"listicle--item-hed\">Press Tape With a Putty Knife<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Nothing is more discouraging when you&#8217;ve finished painting than to peel tape off the woodwork and discover the paint bled through. To avoid the pain-in-the-neck chore of scraping off the paint, do a thorough job of adhering the tape before you start. &#8220;Apply tape over the wood, then run a putty knife over the top to press down the tape for a good seal,&#8221; a painter with more than 16 years of experience says. &#8220;That&#8217;ll stop any paint bleeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Use the blue painter&#8217;s tape instead of masking tape. Masking tape can leave behind a sticky residue that&#8217;s hard to clean off. Plus, paint can cause the tape to buckle or get wavy, which lets paint run underneath it. Painter&#8217;s tape can be left on for days (some up to two weeks) and still peel off cleanly. And it stops paint bleed without buckling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Tape With a Putty Knife Nothing is more discouraging when you&#8217;ve finished painting than to peel tape off the woodwork and discover the paint bled through. To avoid the pain-in-the-neck chore of scraping off the paint, do a thorough job of adhering the tape before you start. &#8220;Apply tape over the wood, then run &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/2015\/12\/17\/painting-secrets-the-pros-wont-tell-you-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Press Tape With a Putty Knife&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/noorsidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}