Painting masking tape

[2mojo2]

Our high school crew normally uses painters tape or masking tape to cover seams between hard wall flats.
latex paint is applied over the luan and tape.
a lot of the available tape, regardless of cost, bubbles up on response to the moisture, calling attention to the seams.
Can anyone name a reasonably inexpensive tape that will take latex paint well?

 

[TheaterEd]

I can't name any inexpensive tape, but I have used black gaff or duct tape. In both situations I paint it first with a base coat. Gaff works better since it doesn't have the glossy exterior, but duct will work if you layer on the base coat.

 

[MPowers]

'Course, you could do it the "ole fashioned" way, a cloth Dutchman of 3" - 4" wide strips of lightweight muslin. Fray the edges, paint the joint, paint the strip, put the painted surfaces together and then paint the srip again. For more detail and a history note on why we call them "Dutchman" check the thread http://www.controlbooth.net/threads...softcovered-flat-seams.280/page-2#post-203830 post #22.

 

[venuetech]

What "moisture" are we talking about? From the paint? When you apply the tape you need to make sure that the edges are pressed down so paint cannot get under the tape.



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[2mojo2]

I think the tape itself is absorbing water from the paint.