What is masking tape and what is it for?

Masking tape is an adhesive tape on a rough paper basis of light weight. On the one hand, there is natural rubber glue, on the other, there is a corrugated base, that is, a layer of paper, which, due to its structure, absorbs it when paint or other liquid gets in and does not allow it to drain.

Content:

• Fields of application of masking tape
• Specifications

There is a device - a holder for masking tape (dispenser), with which it is easy, convenient and quick to fasten the tape to glued to oblong surfaces several meters long - skirting boards, door trim, borders, window frames. Such a holder for masking tape will glue the crepe tape perfectly evenly and tear it off gently and evenly in the right place. It is very easy to remove the tape from the surface.

In any repair, painting and decorating, 2 problems always arise: how to differentiate the layers of paint so that they do not merge, and how to do so in order to glue the wallpaper evenly?

Masking tape (crepe tape) is necessary during painting walls, varnishing, applying plaster, when fixing the covering material. Its use allows other surfaces to remain clean. In this case, you can not be afraid of the traces of adhesive tape on the window, panels, furniture or plastic, if they are immediately washed after using adhesive tape.

Fields of application of masking tape

Modern crepe paper-based tape performs many useful functions:

1. Protects any surface (wallpaper, individual sections of walls, tiles, glass, mirror) when painting, creating multi-color compositions, applying plaster.
2. With masking tape, you can easily wash off contaminated areas, if expensive wallpapers are glued in the neighborhood, make the paint zones perfectly even.
3. Scotch tape can serve as a paper limit mark. If there is a need to drill holes of the required depth, masking tape will not allow the drill or drill punch to move on. It is simply wound on a drill.

   

4. How to keep the roulette edge on a long section of several meters? Only if you glue it with tape.
5. Masking tape will help to make a neat and clearly visible marking on any basis - glass, tile, dark or black surfaces, on the walls, while not spoiling good wallpaper, beautiful painting.
6. The use of masking tape is necessary for drilling an exact hole in a mirror, glass, tile or on any other slippery materials. It will prevent uncomfortable slipping at the very beginning of work.
7. Using tape, you can easily collect small pieces of glass.
8. To ensure that fasteners (bolts, nuts, plugs) are always at hand, it is better to use a crepe tape when installing or disassembling at the height of lighting fixtures (chandeliers, lamps, etc.).
9. In order to protect the door leaf during installation, a masking tape is also used.It is glued around the perimeter with the release and protects the door frame and canvas. When foam is introduced into the gaps, the product remains intact.
10. How to cleanly drill or drill? You can make an envelope out of paper, attach it with a crepe tape to the wall and it will collect all the dust without blurring or damaging the wallpaper or painting.
11. Small parts that remain after repair without packaging temporarily but reliably “park” paper masking tape. If it is double-sided, it can be used instead of glue.

Masking tape is also used for sealing windows, to avoid scratches on glass, plastic, metal, furniture, to prevent injuries from sharp sharp edges, when gluing a film butt-to-butt, paper rolls and sheets. In this case, the surface after adhesive tape is easy to clean with any detergent.

Brown, yellow crepe tape is widely used for gluing cardboard and film packaging, blue tape - in warehouses for marking goods, goods, in post offices, in industry. In addition, it is blue tape that is resistant to changes in humidity and temperature. It well conceals defects on blue surfaces. In trade, a blue ribbon fits any container and makes it more visible. Brown tape is also used for masking.

By type of surface, the color masking tape is divided into:

• polyethylene foam;
• tissue;
• aluminum;
• bituminous;
• bilateral;
• one-sided.

Specifications

In comparison with other building materials, paper-based masking tape has advantages - a wide variety of sizes (thin, thick, wide, narrow), low weight, low cost and excellent technical characteristics:

• good adhesion - an excellent degree of stickiness of the tape;
• high level of strength (resistance to edge breaks);
• large temperature range (-10 ° + 120 °);
• resistance to moisture, frost and other adverse atmospheric phenomena;
• the ability to combine crepe tape with other types of paints, elements, details;
• the ability to quickly remove and easily wash marks from any surface;

  

• creation of templates for inscriptions or markup;
• high elasticity in any conditions.

How many meters of tape per roll? Masking tape has a different length (from 10 to 70 meters) depending on the thickness, as well as weight and color (white, transparent, yellow, blue, brown).

According to different characteristics, there are different types of crepe tapes:

1. Heat-resistant masking tape is used for car painting, maintaining its adhesive quality even at high temperatures of hot drying (up to 120⁰, normal up to 60⁰). It is suitable for drawing drawings on a car, logos. The tape leaves no traces on the surface (if necessary, the traces can be easily washed) and does not allow the paint to flow into the place protected by it.
2. The most heat-resistant adhesive tape, which includes aluminum foil and acrylic adhesive. This type of tape is used in the manufacture of refrigeration equipment. In this way, the joints of the pipes are sealed with adhesive tape and silver details are given. It is also an excellent thermal insulator that resists corrosion (metal oxidation).
3. Double-sided tape with the most strong adhesive base serves instead of glue and is distinguished by the absence of odor, good strength, and the absence of hard to clean traces. There are three types of double-sided tape: PP (propylene base with a double-sided adhesive rubber layer impregnated with silicone), PVC (fabric base, analogue of tape reinforced with fiberglass fibers), mirror (has a fabric base and can replace a screw, a nail and the same glue).Double-sided tape is used in construction, for strong attachment to wood, metal, non-smooth, rough surfaces.

Do not forget that the adhesive tape is attached only to a dry, clean, free of grease and dust base.

It must be cleaned on time, since the adhesive layer has the ability to dry, and to wash it, you will have to use a technical hair dryer or solvent. Although its full drying time depends on the manufacturer. The term can be from several weeks to 1-2 months.

This tape does not lose its properties for about 3 years. It has many useful characteristics (it is easy to glue, clean the surface from traces), so it has become very popular. It is well stored in a dark place at room temperature and has a large number of colors: from transparent to blue.