priming wouldn’t hurt, but I would just tape off the area and start painting. Trim paints tend to have good adhesion. You won’t have a problem with it, *unless the floor was done recently.
Holland, why would it be more of an issue of the floor were done recently? I ask because these floors were done not that long ago.
The finish will harden and dull over time creating a more stable surface to paint over.
What is the standard wait time for oil? Just asked the HO and told me it has been about three weeks. If floors are like paint, seem to soon to put down tape.
no tape.
I was on a job with recently refinished floors, frog tape blue pulled up finish in several places.
Which is why we always conducted adhesion by tape tests before installing or spec’ing out floor finishes and “never” used Minwax stains or lacquer sealers which are notorious for causing finish to lift with tape. IMO, finish that pulls up with painters tape is a defective finish installation.
I was thinking about doing that. I have some pretty long joint compound knives that have used before in similar sutuations.
yeah., that SHOULD be good to go, but if the floor was done improperly, or with a subpar product, and that tape pulls up any finish, you're responsible, so IMO, not worth the risk. A wet rag on a drywall knife can clean up any paint. Ive even had good luck using a wet duster brush to wipe off any overlap doing base.
Yeah, I am going to stay away from the tape. The floor was stained before it was finished with oil poly. So, fixing anything that the tape might pull up is not worth the risk. I usually use a wet rag and a plastic putty knife to avoid any chance of scratching the floor then removing any paint that gets on the floor.
Yeah that will do the trick. I have one of those little handshields made by hyde, I think it's 2 ft long. Works great for certain tasks.
