LPC I cant find the duel tack tape here in Sacramento, do you have a link for it? BTW the ceilings came out great we tried out several different types of tape, yellow and green frog tape, SW crappy 1.5" green, regular blue and white, the blue edge lock seemed to work the best. We had propane heaters to warm up the the rooms and the wall surface somewhat. Painting in the winter is such a pain, a lot of the plastic would fall after the first coat.

 

This is how I "tack" the plastic to the wall, either lower on the wall or a couple feet from the ceiling line in order to hold it tight. The pic is just in my garage spray booth, not a jobsite but oh well.
Reach behind plastic and attach top of tape strip to plastic, twist 180° and attach lower part to the wall, etc.

 

I'm curious, but with the Dual Tack you use standard painters plastic from a box and not the 3M Handmasker plastic? Did I understand that correctly?


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Yup!

 

Trim, floors and tile are in?? Good lord that makes things difficult.

 

We just talked about this a few weeks back in a thread called masking vs freehand. I don't know how to link it, but there's some stuff you may find of interest in it. Yes, 99 will work but I'd bag base if you use the drop down. We're switching to good ole dual tack and painters plastic. It's wayyyyyy more cost effective. Lots of masking for sure doing lids last, but it should be a money maker in the back end. Pull the last bit of plastic and you're pretty much done. Good luck! It's wayyyyyy easier than bagging lids for walls.

 

The walls are 10 ft high do you think i can get away with 99" film?

 

I use either 12 or 20ft. poly

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I do it all the time.
It's faster to spray first, but you get a much nicer line if you spray last.
Your typical ceiling cost will double though.
Invest in some good air movers for when you complete your walls. Their those on over night to help speed up the drying/hardness time.

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Based on some previous threads, masking off the walls seems to be fairly common. As you found out, masking off the ceiling is a royal pain. I think that's probably the main reason masking off the walls seems to be as common as it is. It's a lot simpler to use a hand masker loaded with plastic film and work with gravity, rather than against it.

 

Yep, based upon how your deveolper stages things, I see why you started this thread. I have sprayed many a ceiling after masking off walls. Just take care with your taping below the ceiling to ensure nice lines, and you should have no problems. I have never masked off ceilings before, and hope I never have to...

 

Most ceilings around here have some sort of swirl finish or other types of finishes plus some have popcorn/texture so taping would never work right. We use shields but we don't spray in completed homes. this area is funny about it, so many look online and as soon as they see a bad thing about a sprayer they are convinced they don't work right. So instead of arguing with them we just don't offer it. NC we spray everything.