How To Install Frosted Window Film

Overview

Ready for a quick and like shooting fish in a barrel project? When I moved into my new house (my little Lula Mae Farmhouse) I switched the standard half window doors for beautiful 15 panel front doors... and I love them. They allow in so much calorie-free and are elegant while notwithstanding going with the farmhouse details on my business firm But with all the pretty lite comes all the pretty glass.

Which means people can look directly into my house via the front door. Which isn't great when I'm sitting on my burrow and someone comes to the front door. Especially late at night.

So I decided to utilize a flake of window moving-picture show so that light can withal stream in through the doors but no one tin look straight within.

Of course, even if you don't have brand new doors this privacy motion picture volition work (just brand certain to give your current door a cleaning starting time!). Y'all can add this film to windows too... actually whatever glass that you want to frost.

And the best part? The film is 100% removable... so it'south renter friendly. I'll even walk you through the easiest manner to remove this film from your doors (and share with yous my secret tip to taking the picture off the quick and easy manner.)

Before

before privacy window

Afterward

after privacy window

Alright y'all... earlier we can go started adding whatsoever window flick we need to take alllll the stickers off and clean the glass. Luckily it's a pretty easy process.

My new business firm had i-ii stickers on each and every window... and near 3-four on the doors.

Some of those stickers removed easily... just came off clean, no residual. Angel stickers.

Nosotros like those... but most of our stickers were non angel stickers... they were devil stickers. They tried sticking to the glass long after we wanted them too. In this case yous have a few options: goo be gone or a oestrus gun. Unfortunately goo be gone likes to run down the glass then it's non ideal here... just a heat gun is perfect!

Information technology heats up the adhesive enough that you tin can pull the stickers off easily and it doesn't exit any stickiness backside! Score!

I have a few heat guns but I like to use my Wagner furno oestrus gun for dwelling house projects since it's bigger and can cover more than surface surface area at ane time. Plus information technology has easy to use rut settings on top so if it starts getting toooo hot I tin can easily turn it town and non crack a window.

Just make sure to estrus up the sticker with tiresome, round motions and don't concord the oestrus gun in one identify for too long so you don't hurt your window. I like to angle my oestrus gun so the heat goes over the sticker simply isn't aimed directly at the window... too much heat on your glass for a long time tin definitely crack the drinking glass.

Which is dangerous.

And expensive.

Don't be scared though, the oestrus gun is easy to apply and the stickers come off quickly so that you're no where near the long exposure time of peachy the glass.

Once all the stickers are off we tin move on!

remove stickers with heat gun

Now that our door/window is sticker gratis it's time to clean that bad boy! Whatever lint or adhesive that is left on the glass volition be visible after you apply the window film (so maybe put fluffy and fido exterior for a minute... since dog hair turned out to be the number one problem in my house).

Make sure to wipe downwards the entire door with a bit of glass cleaner and audit every inch to make sure there aren't any smudges or bits of gunk left. One time you lot're certain you take all (most) of the yuck we'll move on to the next step.

clean the glass

Now it'southward time for the movie!

Go ahead and suspension that bad boy out of the box and measure it out! This doesn't have to be a super accurate step since it's easier to use the cut tool to cutting the film to size in one case it's applied to the window.

Instead agree the picture up to the window and then cut it with about an inch of flick on either side of the drinking glass. In my case I tried to cut it about even with the molding around the drinking glass... that way I didn't take too much wasted material but I had plenty that information technology wasn't difficult to work with.

cutting window film

Now it'south time for the fun stuff... applying the window film. Start by peeling back a chip of the clear plastic that's covering the agglutinative on your window moving-picture show.

One time you accept a corner complimentary go ahead and catch your awarding spray solution bottle from the kit and spray the entire piece of glass... liberally.... with the spray solution.

Then peel down the beginning foot of articulate plastic from the adhesive pic and place the adhesive film on the window. Yous desire the adhesive (viscous side) on the glass with the solution.

So you lot should have a sandwich of drinking glass, solution, agglutinative side of the motion picture.

Place the film on the door so that it looks centered with enough overhang on both sides and the summit. At present put your manus in the eye of the film and polish out the motion-picture show all the way to the right and all the manner to the left.

One time the pinnacle is smoothed into place go alee and work your mode downward the door... pull another foot of the clear plastic off the back of the movie and and then smoothen the film into place.

Then do another foot!

Once you've reached the lesser and have all of the clear plastic off the picture show nosotros'll motion on to the next step.

applying window film

Scrape all the Bubbling Out!

Ready for the fun part? Scraping! Take the footling xanthous scraper and push button the film onto the door.

Equally yous scrape you'll notice alllll the bubbles being smoothed out. That'due south skilful! Keep scraping them off the sides and downwardly to the bottom of the window.

Go alee and scrape the whole door corner to corner.

If you come to a spot that has too many bubbles or just won't polish out yous can peel dorsum the picture show a fleck, add together more than solution and smooth information technology out again. BUT this play tricks works less and less as time moves on and so simply do it if you lot need to.

scraping out the bubbles

Set up to cutting the moving-picture show to size?!

Grab the little light-green cut tool and carefully showtime in one corner... then slice right along the edge all the mode to the next corner.

Work your way alllllll the way around the frame making sure to push the film into the corners and go along the film straight as you go.

Perfect darling.

Now yous're done! You can hang out inside with alllll the low-cal and none of your neighbors peering in the windows! This film is pretty proficient at keeping the eyeballs out... Mom and I did a test and neither i of us could see inside from the porch.

Success.

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cut film to size