The Black Out

I left the last post with the windows that had just been fitted by Dave at 5 Valleys Windscreens.

That was Thursday, its now Saturday and I spent the afternoon and some if the evening working solely on Nina, and it was great :).
Only a short post as its late, I have terrible toothache and as a result of lifting the dog cages out of Nina to do the work, a bad back :(. Fingers crossed I get sorted soon !

Well, I now have 4 windows to tint, the three new ones and the rear drivers side that Dave had to refit last week.

Mostly straight forward, Im not afraid of tinting anymore, not particularly good at it, but can mostly get it on there without bubbles and creases. The odd pet hair and dust spots, but thats part and parcel of living here and to be expected. Saying that, my first window, the back one, I messed up while my brain was trying to remember how to do it, I forgot to spray the film as I was taking the clear plastic off and as a result had a crease, then tried to trim it too rapidly and cut too far leaving daylight coming through. I tried to ignore the crease and patched up the cuts, and carried on with the rest, but once I had done the rest, and saw I had plenty of tint left, I went back and did the back one again this time perfecting it, phew :).




The vented window which I had been dreading, I did in three parts. The sliding window with the window lock was tricky, but I cut the tinting film to the approx size of the window, held it up to get the position of the lock knob, marked the centre then cut a cross in the film, then when I applied the film I pushed the cross over the knob and squeedgied the film, then cut the little triangles off around the base if the lock. Its not perfect, but does the job, as does the small window next to it. I may go back to it one day, but with the window frame and blind there, it doesnt really notice and looks ok from the outside too.






It was very bright out today, it doesnt look especially tinted here, but it is 5% limo black and although you can clearly see out, its very difficult to see in :).
The new bonded windows look great tinted, they just didnt look right clear with a gentle green tint, you can see in the next pic how big a difference it makes to the look.



Essentially, it hides the wooden framework I fitted to enclose the blinds inside. What do you think ? Please comment, its nice to know that people are actually reading this blog, even though there are around 30-40 page views a day on average ! SOMEONE must be reading it ;).

Talking of the blinds and the wooden frames, I thought I would take a couple of pics of the sliding door window from the outside before I tinted it to show you how the blinds work behind the big frames.




As you can see, they work very well with my wooden frame idea :). You can also see why the tint is just as important from the outside, its hiding a multitude of sins ;).

Up until today, the sliding door was the only blind that had the wooden 'guides' that stops the blind rocking side to side, and creates a complete blackout when the blinds are down, so that people cant peek in around the edge of the blinds. Today I fitted wooden guides to all the other windows that have blinds too.




As you can see in the above pic, nobody is going to be able to look in around the edges of the blinds now. This is the drivers side front new vented window.
Once I had tidied up and was ready to go in for tea, I took a quick pic of the back, its rare not to have loads of junk in there these days, its easy to imagine my plans for Nina with it being so empty :). Come back soon, I think my next job is sorting the floor out ready for a vinyl covering.








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