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The Painters Tape Showdown

by Lindsay Ballard on December 11, 2013 4 Comments

This post brought to you by FrogTape provided by ShurTech Brands, LLC. All opinions are 100% mine.

the painters tape showdown: frog tape for textured surfaces vs scotchblue with edgelock via MakelyHome.com

A few weeks ago, I talked about my new love affair with FrogTape® for Textured Surfaces.  It is the next best thing to sliced bread for those of us who live in homes with textured walls.  It makes striping and getting clean lines so easy.

I’m sure several of you just about fell off your chairs when you saw that colors I was using – two shades of greige (grey/beige).  “Lindsay choosing greige?  Well, I never!”

Never fear!  The wall I was striping was for a friend’s beautiful, gender neutral nursery.  During my last post, I detailed how to use the new line of FrogTape® and finished the big stripes in the room – but we wanted to do an accent stripe, as well.  You know I pretty much never take the simple design route.

So when I went back to her house to paint the accent stripe, I only had enough tape for about half of the stripes.  My first reaction was to freak out, but my intrigue got the best of me when I realized that I could do my own test of the new FrogTape® compared to the ScotchBlue painters tape that I had on hand.

the painters tape showdown: frog tape for textured surfaces vs scotchblue with edgelock via MakelyHome.com

I used the FrogTape® on the top of the accent stripe and the ScotchBlue on the bottom of the stripe.  I went ahead and followed the exact same steps on both – apply and press down, run a wet cloth along the tape to activate the adhesive, use the bottle of sealer on the line to be painted, paint and then remove the tape.

the painters tape showdown: frog tape for textured surfaces vs scotchblue with edgelock via MakelyHome.com

Looking good on the top side, right?  No bleeds or anything.

But then when I pulled the bottom side, it looked like this.  BOO!

the painters tape showdown: frog tape for textured surfaces vs scotchblue with edgelock via MakelyHome.com

I’ll go ahead and say that gravity played into this – paint bleeds down more readily than it bleeds up.  But, when I used the FTTS tape on both sides for the wide stripes (in my previous post), this didn’t happen – not even once.

Advantage?  I’d say the FTTS tape for sure.  Like, it’s probably all I’m going to use now.  Even though I used the sealer (which I honestly thought was the only difference) on both tapes, it’s clear to me that the adhesive that activates within the FTTS tape is superior to the blue tape.  I just wish you could buy the FTTS tape without buying the whole kit – I only used about 1/3 of the bottle of sealer per one roll of tape.  Hint, hint, FrogTape®.

I was able to go back through and touch up the bleeds with a small artist’s paint brush.  It didn’t take long at all, but I sure was glad that I didn’t have to touch up the entire wall that way!

the painters tape showdown: frog tape for textured surfaces vs scotchblue with edgelock via MakelyHome.com

Now just wait until you see what’s up next – the furniture I refinished for my friend.  This is going to be one spectacular nursery!

Have you used the new FrogTape Textured Surface?  What did you think of it?  Pin your project on Pinterest and use hashtag #TexturedSurface to share with us!

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About Lindsay Ballard

Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.

Lindsay lives outside of Austin, Texas with her husband (Tom), children (Zack and Emma), and dogs (Duke and Jill). She plays roller derby for the Rockin' City Rollergirls out of Round Rock, Texas.

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Comments

  1. Laurie says

    December 11, 2013 at 11:29 am

    Excellent test! I have textured walls and have the bleedy bits to prove it. I’ll have to go get the Frog Tape for textured walls before I commence on the next wall.

    Very cool striping too! No way does that count as boring greige with that fun going on!

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  2. Aneisa says

    December 11, 2013 at 12:50 pm

    the finished wall looks great!

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  3. Laura @ SNL Painting says

    December 11, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    I personally haven’t used it but I know people who have and say it’s fantastic. I need to get this as well, I have plenty of jobs that would probably call for it!

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  4. Shelley Riley says

    December 16, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    My baby’s room is the lucky recipient of Lindsay’s hard work, we are so excited, it looks fabulous and everyone that sees it agrees!!

    Reply

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About Makely

Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.

Lindsay lives outside of Austin, Texas with her husband (Tom), children (Zack and Emma), and dogs (Duke and Jill). She plays roller derby for the Rockin' City Rollergirls out of Round Rock, Texas.


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