Thread: Window Covering
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Old 09-10-2004, 10:45   #16
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Re: Window Covering

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Originally Posted by bopdude
Nope not as easy as that, very very very easy to crease, and if you do, well start again



Yep, thats the nightmare, the solution ( in more ways than one ) is washing-up liquid in water in a spray bottle, soak the window, then as your peeling the backing of the vinyl soak the back of the vinyl. This helps you move it around on the window without it sticking fast, make sure you cut it over-size, next with a decent squeegie you gotta work all the excess water and bubbles out, starting at the top and work it down, when you think you got them all take a lookfrom the outside ge the picture, once your happy you've got to trim to size, depending on the window finish, if as you say its at home, i assume its double glazed, makes it a bit easier, take a staright edge and butt it against the internal beading now put your stanley blade between the beading and the straight edge and with pressure on the straight edge run down the line with the stanley to ' cut it in '

Sounds easy, give it a whirl
Even with creases or bubbles will it hinder its function? Is the plastic film easy to remove afterwards or is it permanently stuck?
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