Painting isn’t blue tape’s only use. Blue tape comes in handy during finish work, furniture, and cabinetry carpentry, and even when cutting certain materials.
Blue tapeloves you and it needs to produce clean lines.
蓝胶带在你这边,万一你出错,它会起到缓冲作用。
蓝带希望你成功,并承诺当你用完它时,它不会留下黏糊糊的残渣。
Here are five awesome things you can do with blue tape:
1. Don’t Get Mad With Your Caulk—Get Even Lines
Caulking is a messy job, and to become a wizard with the caulk gun means you have to spend way too much time caulking. Using blue tape turns a caulking project into a relatively easy chore for both interior and exterior projects.
- Stretch your tape the length of whatever edge you’re caulking.
- Strategically adhere it to where you desire the outside edge of your caulk bead to end.
- Make sure you have an even bead on your surface.
- Go back and wipe it flat with a latex-gloved finger. This pushes the caulk where it needs to go and looks a heck of a lot tidier.
- 一旦你把镶珠磨平,拉下胶带,呆呆地看着你那直得可笑的嵌缝线。
2. When You Hang Art, Don’t Waste Time Making Your Own
Before I learned this trick, I’d scribble on my walls to plot out where my picture hooks were to go. I used to do that every time, until I was on a jobsite one day and my co-worker busted out the blue tape. He began measuring and marking his lines on the tape. My mind was blown, and I’ve been a happier person ever since.
- You’ll need a tape measure, an appropriate sized level, a pencil, and— of course—a roll of blue tape.
- Get an idea of where you’d like the picture to hang, and measure from your floor to the approximate height.
- Stretch a length of blue tape the width of your picture. Adhere it to the wall over the area where you plan to either nail or drill out for mollies.
- Use your level to draw your plane line on the tape, then plot where you want to put your holes. From there, nail, screw, or drill. Then rip off the tape. Easy!
供你参考:如果你想在墙上挂任何东西,这个方法都很有用。它适用于浴巾架、小壁柜和置物架。
3. Create A Perfect Circle
如果你曾经试过用锯子或钢锯切开一根4英寸长的PVC管,那么你可能会注意到你的切口没有你想要的那么整齐。切割管道并不容易,但蓝色胶带可以帮助,特别是当固定在虎钳上时。
- Tape around where you plan to cut, making sure that the edge of your tape lands on your mark. The edge will provide you with a reliable guide to follow.
- If your pipe isn’t connected to anything else, secure it in a vice.
- 把虎钳绕着管子拧紧,这样它就固定好了,你的标记就超过了虎钳夹。
- The tape will give you the guide you need, and the vice will give you the stability to make the perfect cut.
4.Keep Your Fine Edge And Avoid A Blowout
Making crosscuts is risky business. It’s easy to cut off the end of a shelf and be left with unsightly chatter and burring. In a perfect world we’d all have a table saw and/or chop saw to attempt precision cuts. Unfortunately, these power tools are expensive and unreasonable to own if you don’t use them often.
另一方面,圆锯更便携,有了新的优质刀片,几乎可以做任何工作。
A common home project that involves a long crosscut is trimming off the bottom of a door.
What you’ll need is a circular saw, a straight edge as long as the width of your door, two clamps, a pencil, and blue tape!
- Make your cut line first.
- Measure where you want to cut. Run a band of blue tape over the area, and draw your line on the tape.
- Next, measure the distance from your blade to the edge of your saw’s fence, and measure up from your cut line on each side of the door and make a mark.
- Clamp your straight edge on these marks. This will create a guide running parallel to your cut line, which will abut to your saw’s fence and give you a straight cut.
- Don’t be shy, but take your time.
- Let your blade reach full RPM and run it steadily through your mark. The adhesive qualities of the blue tape will reduce the chance of blowout and chatter.
- When you’re finished with your cut, peel your tape off working it down towards the cut and not across.
- You should have a clean and consistent edge.
5. Have Fun Finding Your Mistakes
In construction, you learn more from your mistakes than your successes. Home improvement projects contain a lot of steps from beginning to end. Along the way, a growing list of fixes and touch-ups can pile up quickly, and it’s easy to forget them until they’re too late to fix.
When I’m finished with a task, I go back and check my work. Often, there’s the need for touch ups. What I do to remember them is to tear off a bit of blue tape and stick it where the fix is. The color blue stands out on a project and easily catches your eye.
This strategy is great for drywall, painting and woodworking—basically every component of the construction industry.
Always make the time to double check your work— bust out the blue tape!
Josef Olson is interested in just about everything including carpentry. He currently works in Seattle as a carpenter, and keeps busy off the clock with an assortment of DIY projects. He’s set to submit his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing this summer, and is nearly finished with his second novel.
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