Painter’s Tape (74 items found)

Painter’s tape is an essential accessory for producing professional results in any renovation painting job. It helps to protect surfaces from paint splashes while also creating sharply defined edges where two paint types meet. The tape department at Ace Hardware offers a wide selection of painter’s tape products from different brands, ranging from the industry-standard blue painter’s tape to green, yellow, white, purple and more. 

Why Use Painter’s Tape? 

Painter’s tape is a specialty form of masking tape that's specifically designed for painting jobs. Although both regular masking tape and duct tape can be used to protect surfaces from paint spills and create smooth painted edges, painter's tape has several particular advantages that make it a more effective and convenient choice.

• Effective tack level: Painter's tape has a lower tack level and can peel off more easily without causing damage and leaving any residue behind. By contrast, masking tape is designed to be strongly adhesive, and this can cause problems when removing it from a surface.  
• Waterproof backing: Painter’s tape is specifically formulated to stop paint and other liquids from seeping through, both at the edges and through the tape itself. Other kinds of tape don't offer this optimum blend of protection and easy removal, making painting tape the safest and most reliable choice.
• Clear instructions: Painter’s tape is labeled with a maximum recommended sticking time, letting you know how long you can leave it in place before removal becomes more difficult.

What Do the Colors of Painter’s Tape Mean? 

Painter’s tape is usually available in a range of colors, but it can be confusing to know exactly what those colors signify. In short, if the same color painter’s tape is available from multiple manufacturers, there is no guarantee that they will all have the same adhesive properties or application. However, you can expect consistency from same color painter’s tape when coming from the same manufacturer, like Scotch or Blue Dolphin. 

Scotch: Yellow, Purple and Blue Painter’s Tape

Scotch painter’s tape offers a consistent color-coded product, with the different shades indicating which surface the tape is best suited to.

• Blue: Blue painter’s tape is the most common type and is suited to a wide range of surfaces and applications. Use painter’s blue tape from ScotchBlue on walls, glass, tile and trim, with different multi-week clean removal possible. 
• Yellow: Yellow painter’s tape from Scotch has heavy-duty adhesion and is weatherproof, designed to be used on outdoor wood, metal, glass and synthetic surfaces like vinyl. 
• Purple: Scotch purple painter’s tape has a gentle adhesive quality and can be removed gently. It is designed to be used on delicate surfaces. 

Additional Color Painter’s Tape Options 

Green painter’s tape from FrogTape has a multi-surface application and is designed with PaintBlock technology that helps prevent paint bleed. For drop cloths and sheeting, white painter’s tape from Blue Dolphin has high and medium adhesion on drop cloths and walls and trims respectively, with an extra wide design and easy tearing properties. White tape from KleenEdge, however, is a low tack tape meant for delicate surfaces.

Choose Your Painter’s Tape Sizes 

We stock tape in sizes to suit all kinds of painting projects, from a quick residential spruce-up to a full commercial renovation. Choose from widths of under an inch to a couple of inches and lengths of up to 180 feet, all sold in multipacks to make your purchase even more economical.

Shop Painters Tape and More at Ace 

The tapes, glues and adhesives section at Ace includes what you need for your renovation and DIY projects, from painter's tape to plastic tape to reflective tape. Browse our range above to find the tape type, adhesive strength, brand and length you need, and we'll do the rest to get your next redecoration project up and running in no time.