I have a Florida room that has several plastic film type windows that
are mounted in aluminum frames. Several have to be replace.
each window is 52x20,I brought the plastic film (dark) and the spline.
Now Ive done screened windows before but this plactic is very difficult
to work with,I keep getting wrinkles on the film here and there.
I tried to do the longest sides first(52) then finish with the 20"
sides....still wrinkles.
Im using a large plastic wheel to insert the spline into the grooves.
Is there some trick to getting all this right???


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Use a hammer and chisel and Krazey Glue, or liquid nails. Why didnt you
get the red and Blue window film. If you need dark cut up a bunch of 55
gallon trash bags, pull tight , no wrinkles

daveyjones writes:
Now Ive done screened windows before but this plactic is very difficult
to work with,I keep getting wrinkles on the film here and there.
[...]
Is there some trick to getting all this right???

Try working from the center of each side out.
I would do the long side centers first, then short side centers.
Now that you have the "+" pattern, start working on the upper portions
of the long sides. Stay in sync on each side. (don't do all of one
side, then all of the other.)
once you are most of the way to the top, un/redo the short side center
and work your way out to the corners along that end.

Repeat for the bottom.

I did this for the spline based winter window film and had good luck
with it.

Good luck, I hope you have good results!

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Now makes a lotta sense..let me try that tomorrow....
Will get back to ya..
Thanks


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replying to daveyjones, david wrote:
daveyjones.1k7872 wrote:

I have a Florida room that has several plastic film type windows tha
are mounted in aluminum frames. Several have to be replace.
each window is 52x20,I brought the plastic film (dark) and the spline.
Now Ive done screened windows before but this plactic is very difficul
to work with,I keep getting wrinkles on the film here and there.
I tried to do the longest sides first(52) then finish with the 20
sides....still wrinkles.
Im using a large plastic wheel to insert the spline into the grooves.
Is there some trick to getting all this right??
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I have been searching everywhere for the products to repair my windows and
have found nothing. Do you remember where you purchased the plastic?



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On 1/11/2014 2:45 PM, david wrote:
replying to daveyjones, david wrote:
daveyjones.1k7872 wrote:

I have a Florida room that has several plastic film type windows tha
are mounted in aluminum frames. Several have to be replace.
each window is 52x20,I brought the plastic film (dark) and the spline.
Now Ive done screened windows before but this plactic is very difficul
to work with,I keep getting wrinkles on the film here and there.
I tried to do the longest sides first(52) then finish with the 20
sides....still wrinkles.
Im using a large plastic wheel to insert the spline into the grooves.
Is there some trick to getting all this right??
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I have been searching everywhere for the products to repair my windows and
have found nothing. Do you remember where you purchased the plastic?



I bought some of this film at Lowes. It has the reflective coating
that, like windows, should keep heat in and cold out and reverse.
Also found it very difficult to apply to glass without crease and
bubbles but where I have it, window panes along door with gauze curtain,
it does not look bad. It also appears to work as intended, i.e. area is
not as cold in winter or as hot in summer.

Plastic sheets can also be purchased and cut to fit window frames.
I did this for a basement window accidentally broken by kids kicking
balls in the yard.

replying to Frank , david wrote:
frankdotlogullo wrote:

I bought some of this film at Lowes. It has the reflective coating
that, like windows, should keep heat in and cold out and reverse.
Also found it very difficult to apply to glass without crease and
bubbles but where I have it, window panes along door with gauze curtain,
it does not look bad. It also appears to work as intended, i.e. area is
not as cold in winter or as hot in summer.
Plastic sheets can also be purchased and cut to fit window frames.
I did this for a basement window accidentally broken by kids kicking
balls in the yard.


Thank you for your response. The type I am talking about does not apply to
glass, but is in fact in the frame as a window and there is no glass. It
goes on with a spline like screen.

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