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Applying Vinyl To Glass
Ive not been doing this job for long but I have seen an improvement in all areas of my design and fitting EXCEPT when fitting reverse to the inside of windows. Dont get me wrong, im far from perfect but glass gives me nightmares!!
Ive tried various cleaning and prep methods, various fitiing methods (Dry, Rapid Tac, wet etc) but I still end up with the graphic looking streaky and minor bubbles.
Normally I return a few days later to see the job and the bubbles and streaks have gone, is this normal and am I worrying for nothing? The customer has never complained yet, but obviously when they see the job immediately after ive done it they look a little doubtful if I tell them it will be fine in a few days!!
Id love to do a fitting course, but there are none near me so its a case of learning as I go.
Any suggestions or pointers would be appreciated.
Paul
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3 Replies
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par for the course (doing wet) i’d say dude,
there’ll often be something showing so i always tell the customer it’s usual, which it often is, and will disappear over a few weeks or so, i often tell em that if it’s a prob in 6 weeks, to give me a call and i’ll take another look at it and replace if necessary, have never had to do owt as it always sett;es pretty quick.
etch is the only thing you really have to be careful of and that’s more the material then the way you apply it.
cheers.
Hugh -
scrape the window with a metal blade, meths, or proper glass cleaner, then scrape again then repeat the chemicals, & wipe with a lint free cloth, glasses or camera lens cleaners are good, then above all do it DRY!!! with a new squeegee with no nicks or dents, even pressured strokes not too fast and you’ll have no marks or bubbles, or i dont anyway.
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paul its swings and roundabouts everybody has there own methods but i always try to put glass on dry i seem to have less problems than using water .yesterday i was doing etch glass inside a pub patting myself on the back that there wasnt so much one blemish on the job it wasnt till i got outside and realized it was running about 3mm down 😕 not a lot really but there was an outside wall running along the bottom of the window and it kinda emphasized it
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