The finishing coat does several things to protect the integrity of the wood beneath. While hardwood sports floors are very durable, they do require protection in the form of finishing coats. So will hardwood stages and dance floors. Why is it a bad idea to put painters tape on a sports floor?Īny type of hardwood aerobic floor like a gymnasium will have a finishing coat on it. Contractors, installers, custodial staff, and gym floor coating manufacturers all exhale an exasperated sigh when a client mentions tape on the gym floor. Tape manufacturers don’t recommend it, and neither does the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association (MFMA). We’ll explain why we don’t condone this practice below. But using tape on a gym floor is never recommended. We don’t want to spoil your fun or hinder the coaches’ ability to teach their students. In other cases, the brightly colored role of painters tape comes out when people want to play an impromptu game of pickleball or another sport. Frustrated coaches and instructors will often put painters tape down on the gym floor to instruct athletes on movement. Painters tape and other types of adhesive are sometimes used. But ironically, equipment used as teaching and coaching aids end up doing the most damage to a gym floor. Due to unavoidable wear-and-tear, the finish on a gym floor will wear away over time and need replacing. Why do people put painters tape on a gym floor?Ī correctly cared for gym floor will still need to be regularly maintained. If you’re thinking about using painters tape or any tape for that matter on the gym floor, here’s why you should think twice. What’s the problem with putting down some tape to make temporary lines for the game? Turns out, a whole lot. After all, you’re just going to play one little game of pickleball. Many sports floor owners and facility managers think they can put regular old painters tape on a hardwood gym floor. It has very good reviews so I'm hoping that'll help with bed adhesion for the PETG and break away freely once printed.Įdit: See my other comment about painters tape and PETG, it's a pain and only works reliably with a raft.For gym floor contractors, “tape” is a four-letter word they don’t like to hear in the industry. I also ordered Layerneer's Bed Weld to try using with the smooth side of the bed glass. Hopefully I'm right on that, I'll find out soon enough lol. So putting painters tape down would just mean that you have to re-create the mesh for levelness, not adjust the z-offset. I'm also getting a BL Touch this week, my understand is that the z-offset is the height difference between the tip of the bltouch and the depth of the nozzle from the hot end. The adhesion was way strong than PLA, rarely do I need to use any tools to get PLA up, I did with the PETG. I haven't gotten it totally dialed in yet, I had success when using a raft which was needed anyways for what I was printing.
I can report the painters tape does work really well, just need to really slow down the speed that the nozzle moves at. I just got some PETG too and was also worried about putting it directly on the glass bed because I've read the horror stories of it fusing to the surface. My largest PETG print was a parts bin that covered nearly the entire X-Y build area, and it slide right off the surface once cooled. I print 95% of my stuff with PETG, and it was scary to try to print directly on the build plate the first time, but I don't think I'd use any other surface now. As the build plate cools off, you'll actually hear popping sounds like ice cracking, which is the part and build surface letting go of each other. If it gets all the way to room temp and doesn't separate, 10min in the freezer will fix that (build plate and part). Once the print is done, let the bed cool below 40C, and the print will pop off. I would not suggest letting the bed temp cool to offset chances of warping. 80-85C for bed temp, too cold will cause first layer adhesion problems. Make sure the bed is cleaned with isopropyl alcohol and paper towels until no yellow color is seen to get the first layer adhesion. With the V2 glass bed, on the textured side, no issue with PETG directly on it, no tape required.
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