Blue Tape Pulled Up Clearcoat On Hardwood Floor

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Blue tape pulled up clearcoat on hardwood floor.

It pulled off the clear finish. The installers put the stain on first coated the floor with urethane. When the tape was pulled up a coat of the finish came up with the tape. The painters put down paper with painters blue tape to protect the floor.

Blue tape is the correct tape to use although painters should know not to tape to floor finish with any tape. We prefer scotch blue 2080 and to a lesser extent 2090 press the tape as lightly as possible to the finish and do not walk on it. I say just don t tape. Or plan for a total refinish as part of the paid job.

Leave the tape in place for as short a time as possible but no more than a few days. Blue tape wont normally pull finish that is cured and wont pull stain like that. Tape can be left on for one hour or up to 30 days read the manufacturer s label and inside the tape core. Then they came back sanded the floor applied a final coat of urethane and it set for about 3 and 1 2 days.

When the tape was pulled up a coat of the finish came up with the tape. Slowly and carefully pull the tape back at a 45 degree angle. We were ready for the final finish coat. But when the team pulled up the protective covering they had laid down after the stain and first finish coat th.

Of course after only 4 hours of being down today the tape pulled up much of the polyurethane. Tape on floor problem i used genuine 3m brand blue tape on a hardwood floor and it was only down 2 hours and not in direct sun. The painters put down paper with painters blue tape to protect the floor. Also note how long the tape can remain on the surface.

When you stained the floor it looks like the stain may have been a water base and not penetrated the wood and then the finish surely bonded with that stain so the whole thing pulled up leaving raw wood. I specifically mentioned in front of the ho that we d be using blue tape and paper to protect the floor and mask it and the owner of the flooring company said that would be fine. Painter s blue tape pulled up floor finish. If protecting the floor with red rosin paper tape it to the baseboard not directly to the floor.