Deltec Masking Tape Review – purple and red

Deltec has been my choice of tape for a long while now. I have tried others and Still keep trying them but in all honesty, there isn’t any need. Deltec have the full range I need, Including the tape and drapes.

I’ve always stuck with gold for the hard surfaces, work tops, kitchen units, switches and sockets etc. Then the purple for anything that was freshly painted.

The purple can be used even the same day on top of a well prepped good water-based satin. My preference is next day though. I must admit I have a method with taping that guarantees no bleed if done right. Which I can achieve with most precision tapes. It’s more down to their tackiness as to why I choose and rate Deltec. The purple for me is in between purple Masq by Ciret and pink Tesa which I find a real struggle to stick to anything.

For some reason I hadn’t even considered the extreme orange tape for on tile grout. I tested it out when doing a bathroom ceiling. It was tiled right up finishing with a line of grout at the ceiling line. The previous painter left it wavy on the grout all the way round. I cleaned it up and dropped the line slightly. The tape stuck perfectly to the grout leaving a bang online, without me having to do anything else to make sure it worked fine. The stuff really grips with out a lot of effort to press it on and it pulls away lovely.

I can imagine this would be perfect for the cold tiled bathroom floors then normal tape wouldn’t stick to. (but yet to try that one).

Deltec Precision Masking Tape Review

Deltec Masking Tape have been a firm favourite of ours for the last year. We regularly use the purple to create our ‘perfect’ crisp lines between skirting and walls. We have used the ‘Red’ previously on an external painting job where we were spraying all the windows and that didn’t let us down.

Deltec ‘Gold Precision Masking Tape’ was new to us though, we knew it existed, we just hadn’t got our hands on any yet and kept ordering the products that we knew!

Deltec comes in three colours:

Purple- Low tack for sensitive surfaces, no paint bleed. We have used on wallpaper, freshly painted walls and trim.

Gold- internal and external use, no paint bleed, UV resistant. Not used until this trail.

Red- Special Reinforced paper, suitable for slightly wet and rough surfaces like exterior walls.

We have already use metres upon metres of this, possibly miles! of the purple and red but the gold is equally impressive. Better almost as we are now using the correct tape for each purpose. We had been using ‘purple’ for nearly all projects. Which can be seen as an error on our part, but it’s very easy when ordering over the phone and never actually looking at stock on shelves or brochures to just ‘stick with what you know’.

The three separate colours are perfect for each job, they do as you ask, and they never let you down.

We have returned to a house this week that we did a year ago, and we had used the purple Deltec Masking Tape to create the crisp lines throughout the property. The good news is that these lines are still ‘crisp’ and the house is still beautiful. No the tape didn’t enable these lines to be perfect a year later, but what it does show is that it was worth the effort!

Trade or DIY id happily recommend these to anyone.