When you're done painting, remove the tape and the rim should be clean. While you're at it hacking away at your paint can, you can also add some plastic wrap to prevent dried paint "skin" from ...

Masking off a room properly is the key to achieving razor-sharp lines and avoiding messy cleanup. Here's how to use painter's tape like a pro.

Using masking tape and tester pots of paint, which can be bought for as little as 10p, people have created incredible abstract designs.

I cut about a 25cm length of masking tape, and fold it lengthways into three equal sections. Then stick it to the wall beneath where you want to drill in a rough U-shape, using one third, then turn ...

It sounds like the problem you're having would be helped by scoring along the paint/tape junction, to break the bond between the paint on the tape and the tape on the wall.

A savvy woman has been praised for her game-changing painting life hack that's 'so much easier' than using masking tape - she says it's her 'favourite time-saving tip' ...

If you are fed up of buying masking tape and trying to paint carefully, there's one hack that is not only a time-saver, but it's cheaper too.

HOME RUN Girl, 7, decorates her own bedroom on the cheap using simple masking tape paint trick and it looks incredible ...