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The putty did feel a bit oily, which is strange to me since I let the putty try to skin for approx 3 weeks (maybe northwest weather didn’t allow for a full skin/cure). This leaves me to thinking it had something to do with the putty.

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Where the paint was cracked (where the glass and putty joined), I still had to scrape paint off the glass with a razor blade. Thanks Scott for the reply! I don’t think that the actual glass was the problem whether not being cleaned or the product it was cleaned with. When you look at the numbers, why wouldn’t you paint windows by hand from now on? You save money on paint, on tape and labor. Ultimately, it’s faster to brush your windows by hand AND it results in a better, longer lasting finish. Taped paint line fail prematurely because the paint seal is broken when the tape is removed.Blue tape is expensive, messy and time consuming to apply and remove.Spraying uses a lot of paint and increases your materials costs.

This includes 1 coat of paint sprayed and 2 coats of paint brushed since I can build up the needed paint film faster with spraying. Here are the problems when it comes to painting windows with the tape method: the table below are actual numbers from my painting experiment a couple years ago. I’m always testing things to see if there are better ways to do a task and this felt like a subject worthy of testing. I painted a window using tape once just to see if it would make a difference. To see the right way to paint a window check out my video post How To: Paint a Wood Window Sash We just want to be good enough to get by and this “painting by tape” mentality is a perfect example of it. We’re not interested in learning to be masters at a particular craft. Our society is on the downward spiral when it comes to skilled laborers. You’ve heard the saying work smarter not harder, right? Well, this is the epitome of that scenario. Just a skilled painter and his paint brush. That’s it! No tape to buy, no bags of crusty, gooey tape to trash.

Pay a skilled guy to paint the windows with a brush.

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Now, let’s look at how to accomplish the same thing but in a different way. When you breakdown the whole process, it sounds absolutely insane! All that just to paint a window? How have we taken a seemingly simple process and made it into something so convoluted?

Pay a guy the highest wage of all to touch up the work with a brush.

Pay another guy a little more per hour to clean the mess left by the sprayer and the places where the blue tape didn’t cover.

Pay the guy who makes the least per hour to remove the massive amounts of blue tape.

Pay another guy a little more per hour to spray windows and waste as much paint as possible.

Pay the least amount per hour possible to tape windows, taking a waaay long time.

Buy 10 big honking rolls of blue tape for a crazy price.

There are a few options when it comes to painting windows so let’s look at the difference between the mad taper and the smart painter. I just think, “This painter has no idea what he’s doing.” A sea of blue proudly sponsored by 3M.Ī lot of people will look at this and think, “What excellent prep work! This company is meticulous.”

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I’m referring to almost all of the professional painters I see around my town and across the country as well.ĭriving around historic neighborhoods, I’m amazed how may times I see a scene like in this picture. What is the absolute worst way to paint a window? Well, surprisingly, it’s the way that most painters do it! I’m not talking well-meaning DIYers.