My husband and I want to decorate our basement apartment for Halloween. I am making the decorations myself and want to tape them to the walls.
Will the paint peel off when the tape is removed? The walls are painted sheetrock if that matters.
Also note that I can’t hang stuff from the ceiling because of heat pipes.
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Yes! Do not put regular tape on your walls.
However, there is speciality tape you can find at Home Depot, or other home-improvement stores, for this purpose and it will not peel the paint off.
OR, since you’re just decorating for Halloween and the tape won’t be on your walls for that long anyway, you could just get a roll of blue painter’s tape.
Use painter’s (blue) tape. It should release with no residue left behind. Hope this helps.
Most tape will leave a residue, except blue tape which isn’t exceptionally good tack. You can, however, use 3M command hooks without damage to the walls for heavier items or blu or yellow tack for paper or light items. Craft stores and home improvement stores have 3M hooks and discounters, craft and office supply stores have blu and yellow tack.
If you are careful taking it off you can use straight masking tape. They also make gum’s that are specially made for that sort of thing, but when left more than a couple of weeks it can get nasty. If you use masking tape only use it for a couple of hours, or it might damage the paint. Blue painters tape can be used but watch that when you pull it off you are “gentle” so you can prevent damage. Note that heavy items will not hang or stay up for long and you may have to repeat the process several times before Halloween. The main methods of hanging stuff to have it last will damage the walls.
Consider extensive use of cobwebs on the walls. You can usually get them to hook to about anything and they don’t damage the walls.