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Masking Tape

When it comes to painting walls successfully, it is enormously important to use the right masking tape to create sharp color edges. Whether you want to paint a wall white or to express your creativity with various colors and shapes – we’ve got the right masking tape for you.

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The right painter's tape for every situation.

We have developed our crepe and painter's tape in various versions. This way, you will always find the right painter's crepe for every situation. It doesn't matter whether you want to paint your room or your outdoor area. With our tesa® Painter's Tape Perfect+, you can optimally cover baseboards or patterns and start painting right away. With the tesa® Masking Professional Outdoor, you can also tape off and paint outdoor areas cleanly. This crepe tape is UV and weather-resistant as well as particularly tear-resistant. Finally, we have developed colorful crepe tapes so that you can also distinguish the individual tapes by color if necessary. The colors correspond to the different properties. The yellow crepe tape is ideal for most situations indoors and outdoors. The pink painter's tape is suitable for sensitive surfaces. And with the blue painter's crepe, you can also tape off and paint cleanly in outdoor areas.

Working Precisely With Our Masking Tapes

If you want to create the optimum result, you’ll need the right material. With paint work, you can lay down the basis for impressive results with our masking tape. Our extensive product range meets a wide variety of requirements. As different as they may be, these masking solutions share a couple of characteristics: an adhesive performance tuned to fit the respective task, ease of use, and effortless removal without any trace.

For Any Application, the Right Masking Solution

In our wide range, you can, for example, find masking tapes for the interior, for particularly sensitive surfaces, for paint work, and for corners. Even when painting exterior areas, you can rely on us. To effectively protect large areas, you can use our Easy Cover® Premium films or papers, on offer as a practical 2-in-1 product – including masking tape. In addition, you can find special adhesive solutions to expertly seal cracks and holes. Our online product advisor will help you find the right masking tape!

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That can happen if the surface is anti-adhesive. Some anti-adhesive surfaces are tiles with a special anti-adhesion coating, structured or vinyl wall papers, materials with a high silicone content, silicone resins or plasters.
Surface moisture, dust or grease could be another reason why the tape won’t stick. Make sure to clean and dry all surfaces before applying painters tape.

We generally advise against masking off natural stone. Most natural stone types have a porous exterior. When removing the masking tape, tiny particles of stone are removed as well, which can lead to unsightly stripes on the stone surface and adhesive residues are more likely to remain on these types of substrates, which a solvent would wash deeper into the stone, where they can no longer be removed.

Our specialist low-tack tesa® Masking Tape for wallpaper – the masking tape PRECISION SENSITIVE – is ideal for sensitive surfaces. It has less adhesion than other tesa® masking tapes and tesa® Masking Tape for wallpaper is the right choice for sensitive paper or silk wall papers, as well as for surfaces with multiple layers of paint, which have aged and could flake. Test an inconspicuous area with a strip of tesafilm® to judge the sensitivity of the overall area. The sensitivity is very high if paint flakes off when the strip is removed. The best choice for woodchip paper or other less sensitive wall coverings is our tesa® Masking tape PERFECT.

The carrier of the cover tape is easier to remove when heated with a hair dryer; once warm, it can be peeled off diagonally. When adhesive tape is left in place for too long or is subjected to direct sunlight, the adhesive can become brittle and hard to remove. We recommend repeatedly applying benzene with a brush if the adhesive is on a water-proof surface. This will cause it to swell. The adhesive can then be removed with a plastic spatula. Any residue is easily wiped away with a cloth saturated in benzene.

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