Hi,
I just had an old floor stained and oil polyed by a contractor.
I painted a small wall by myself and taped down some plastic with blue painters tape to the floor to protect the floor from drips. When I too off the tape, it pulled up some poly. Anyone have a trick how to fix this and make it look seamless? Also, it seems that the poly was very thin where the tape mark is left. Do you think my contractor was pulling a fast one by only putting down one coat?
Sincerely,
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Well, that damn blue tape-I was surprised when it pulled off some week old paint.............................
But I sure couldn't tell how thin it was. It took the primer with the top coat......................
So as far as the fast one, beats me-you know him, I don't.
I think it might say somewhere that the stick is too tenacious to use on fresh work, a lesson learned if we couldn't find it to read it.
How much is "some". If it's that fresh, you might booger it up trying to lightly sand to blend in more that just a couple spots. If it's an 8' strip a half inch wide-good luck. I think if you just coat over, that'll show. Worth a try on a VERY small area to see. Same goes with the light sanding with ?. I might try a scotch pad of medium to fine grade-you're more "screening " the surface than sanding. Could try lacquer thinner rubbed sparingly to soften the hard tape edge-might work.
Best of luck.