ABSTRACT

Or wait even longer and you won’t be able to pull the tape up

at all. Even if your timing is correct, you’ll need a craft knife to

help cut through the texture compound without tearing your

brick edges. Frequently, you must go back with a wet sponge

and sand down all the pointy edges created when lifting away

the tape. You can’t paint the bricks until the mud is dry, which

means you must have already removed your tape. That means

you have to be very careful adding any paint to the dried bricks.

In reality, mortar can get on bricks but bricks don’t get on