Window Covering

[bbwannabe]

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?

[bbwannabe]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

if you are feeling really brave and it is double glazing then you could take the units out to get a perfect finish

NO i aint lol my dad will KILL ME. I could do the the cheaper solution and put up a sign to "F*** Off", of course i wonder if this is some kinda verbal assault and arrestable.. wouldnt be suprised if it was.

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by bbwannabe

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

Sorry for the late reply, no is the answer. It won't hinder in any way, it'll just look crap depending on how bad it looks, bubbles you will work out, but if you crease it, well, depending on how bad it is, it might look like a panama canal type thing.

If it goes wrong then taking it off staright away is easy, after a while it gets harder but not impossible.

Forgot to mention, if you do it yourself, get a ' stanley ' style blade scrapper and do the window before hand, with a bit of soap / water

HTH

Originally Posted by bbwannabe

why? cos its a shop too.

Ah, you didn't mention that at first

[Matth]

If you're not bothered about seeing out, you could try painting it with greenhouse shading stuff - the sort you can wash off.

[bbwannabe]

Ok bit late for the response on this. Brother got some film and set it up today (the privacy film) due to some feckin secondary school kids thinking its funny peeking.
Yeah it was a pain in the ass to get it done, the smaller the window the easier, ended up getting creased and had to do it multiple times to get it right as most of the the film folded up and stuck to itself... Argh! chaos.

Anyway thanks for the installation help, the link to the site, and all the replies, just one more question. Any recommendations of where I can find the film cheaper. £16 a metre is pretty dear and I might get some heat reduction film for the summer (long wayy away i know).

Thanks.