Work technique for flat.

Do you tinters prep all the glass in a group if let's say we have 6 panes where you have 3 on top and 3 underneath, clean, scrape, squeegee everything as though it is ready to all go on in 6 lots or prefer to do each window singularly from go to whoa?
I've been playing around trying to increase my installing time by eliminating the putting down and picking up of tools, sprayers, bulk cutting of film, etc. I think it has merit except for the windows underneath that cop the overflow of water.

How would you go about fitting?
Devil

If they're double hungs, I prep all the tops, slap it on, then the bottoms. If it's a bigger job, I don't prep, the help does.

For me devil, it really depends on the size of the window. What I do is work from the top down. If they are the smaller ones like 2x2s or 3x3s I might slap 'em up together at the same time. But it depends...are they vinyl or wood frames? If they are double hung I clean top and bottom together, tint the top...resqueegee the bottom and then tint it. It really depends on what you're looking at...

Blade,
What if you had 5 side by side only all 5' X 7'? Each would take some time to fit.

Would you go down on the floor and cut all 5 off the roll oversize then up to each window and do each one as a totally completed install before you move on to the next one?

or

With all the same film cut, prepare all glass in one hit minus the application solution? I suppose the longer you leave a window prepped, the more chance of hair, fluff, dust (even flies) accumulating on the surface.

OT,
I haven't got a tint slave unfortunately at the moment. It would be nice to watch her ti(n)ts though.
Bad Devil..back to the burrow!

Windows that size I would do 1 at a time. Start to finish.

we do all our dry scraping if necassary vacum it up, wet scape and flush all the windows then do a quick final clean with a squegee before we take the film to the glass.

Pm,
We had a top installer back in '75 who did exactly that. Dry scraped the glass first but not vacuum up.....just brushed with a very hairy 4" wide paint brush.

I have proved without doubt that this double act of scraping both dry and wet is not necessary.
In an effort to speed up my installs (performing a bit of lateral thinking) and reduce my work load preparation for flat glass, I detirmined that if I just wet scraped first using the soap solution as my guide to where I have covered or missed, I could get away with just one pass.
I'm even starting to believe that the next pass over of using a scrunge/scourer sponge after a wet scrape may not be necessary as well. If the 6" Triumph blade disturbs all the wet suface, then there shouldbe no real need to double prep.

Squeegee it all off. Dry all the edges and frames with dunny (toilet) tissues, and wet all glass and reverse roll on.
Devil

when I say dry scrape devil I mean the edges We do a shiot load of residential work and they usually have silicone or paint on them thats what we vac up, we use the brush too if its just a little. If their not to bad we just wet scrape, wipe the edge with the dunny paper and go to it. I'm with ya though on always looking for ways to save time

If any windows require a ladder to reach, I'll do each window one at a time - completed. That way I'm not up and down, moving all around. If they are all right next to each other - I will prep them all - tops and bottoms, and then tint them all. I agree with your thinking - less changing of tools = less time. Having to do uppers which require a ladder, for me at least, just seems to add a lot more time in general.

I agree, scraping with the 6" blade is enough to clean, no cleaning squeegee as long as you make sure your scraper is clean maybe even wiping the edge of the blade between strokes.

I still wipe edges of a lot of windows, though, before installing.

Ladder work kills my paws at the end of the day....even off a 4 footer.
Takes me 2 days to get over it if I've been on it all day.
Devil

I have been doing a lot of new homes lately. I found that prepping the whole room first, cleaning up a bit, then installing seems to go faster. before i install on each window, i squeege one more time. haven't had any problems that way. If i were doing a house with a lot of pets (my own) i found that you really need to prep the window right before you lay film (pet hair is a biotch).

Has anyone had to instlall on windows that seemed to be oozing glue around the frame. Taking me a Long time to prep the windows. Considered just siliconing the edges so i don;t have to trim the glue (goes agianst my perfectionism)

I am our tint slave. I do the prep work for my husband on flat glass. I clean ahead of him and then he fits and puts them on behind me. I then go back and clean up the mess.