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Guest Pyromanikk

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ohh boy....

This guy is in for a rude awakening :beer

You better read LOTS and understand what your doing or you will lose your azz QUICk doing flatglass.

word to ya mutha

One month ain't going to cut it mate.:beer

You have to crawl first.

Devil

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I don't understand whats so hard about it. The very first windows I did where 10 ft up and not even square windows. They were odd shape and I had to lay the tint on the window and then cut it out to size. then I laid the tint on the window next to it and pulled the liner off enought to achor it at the top..then I applied it to the top of the window..then just pulled liner off and sprayed at the same time...then squeeged the film.boom done. took me like not even 15 min for the second window.

And this was my first flat glass everrr. annnd I was on a ladder. window was like...4 feet by 4 feet on one side and 4 by 3 on the other...seems like cake.

I just need to get my hands on the right film and be able to ID the glass.

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ohh boy....

This guy is in for a rude awakening :beer

You better read LOTS and understand what your doing or you will lose your azz QUICk doing flatglass.

word to ya mutha

One month ain't going to cut it mate.:beer

You have to crawl first.

Devil

or drag :beer

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did you use auto film?

Call Suntek and ask them. They'll help you out a lot.

Call Suntek and ask them. They'll help you out a lot.

should he ask for steve, from the south office? :lol2:beer:beer:beer

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did you use auto film?

Call Suntek and ask them. They'll help you out a lot.

Call Suntek and ask them. They'll help you out a lot.

should he ask for steve, from the south office? :lol6:beer:lol2:beer

I'll be honest...I only think I know what im doing.

I told the guy I tinted car windows and he asked if I could do these windows for him at his house.

I figured it'd be easy. and it was.. but I didn't even know that the windows can crack. :beer

Im praying to god that the glass won't break. becuase I did use auto film.

BUT THEY LOOKED GREAT. it was suntek...like...38% I think...not double pane. Infact..they were like 30 year old windows.

Man...I just got ripped. I paid like 50 bucks for this flat glass online video. :lol2

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did you use auto film?

Call Suntek and ask them. They'll help you out a lot.

Call Suntek and ask them. They'll help you out a lot.

should he ask for steve, from the south office? :lol2:beer:beer:beer

Whats the inside joke with steve?

Is he SUPER informative?

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Look EVERY residential window and film is different. I use SunTek and they have like 15 different residential films in various shades and darknesses. You need to educate yourself on what film is what. What film can go on which glass. You need to educate yourself on the different windows. Like Anderson and so on. They all have different specs. Like I said its a difficult.

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I figured it'd be easy. and it was.. but I didn't even know that the windows can crack. please.gif

Im praying to god that the glass won't break. becuase I did use auto film.

yep...looks like your gonna learn the hard way :spit

Even when you usefilm that is safe for resi/comm glass they can still break :spit it WILL happen sooner or later.

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TINTZEUS

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hey guys..I just started tinting cars maybe ehh...a month or so ago..then I got this guy who asked me if I coudl tint his house windows..I figured...Why not?

So I tried it and it was Fkn EASYYYYY.

So now I'd like to start doing house and business windows. Do you guy have any advice?

keep tinting. youll get it. if you want to get good, stick with autos for awhile.......flat will come.

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