Howdy folks Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what I'm gonna show you is how we
remove tape residue on some vinyl clad windows. Now well get into a whole lot of different details but
over 30 years, I've used every product known to man and then some, from the carcinogenic ones, you name
it we have used them I just prefer this Goof-off myself, and if you're gonna clean frames I suggest
here sometimes they scratch the vinyl if you use trowels they scratch the vinyl if you get these
plastic trowels too. sometimes they, they do the job sometimes they don',t I like a product where I can
just use a rag wipe it back and forth and the tape residue will come off. Most of these products
that take me two hours to explain all this stuff so so simplify guys What we and the plastering
trade use is either, we use vinyl tapes to cover our windows because it has protections for what
they say are 30 days up into in the hundreds say say the temperatures 100 degrees we put this it's
supposed to last 30 days where you can peel it off and you leave no residue does it do that? Never in
my experience but we don't use a duct tape, because that always leaves the residue. We don't use
blue tape because that's interior tape, it'll come right off. I prefer the red tape but even the red
tape if you leave it more than 30 days sometimes 25 ,15 if you're in 105-degree weather it can leave
a sticky residue how do we get it off? Well first thing what we do is we're gonna take you around
to the other side and I'll show you an area of how to do it quickly okay guys what I'm doing
is we've got tape residue here we had our vinyl tape on here and we didn't have it on long and we
didn't have it on we had it on about 20 days but it depends if it's in the hot Sun it'll it'll melt
it right on there we had a here and just a little bit on this frame anyhow what I recommend is you
use a clean rag and just wipe it back and for back and forth and I could see how it's lifting it off
right here and again are there any products you can use that are faster than this sure
but they're carcinogenic this one's eco-friendly I don't want to show you guys any carsenaegentic
Products. Because there would be always some fella who'd use it how I didn't recommend. Call me, yell
at me, and we don't want that stuff again. There's always a well-meaning but ignorant fellow who will
take it out of content and do more damage than good so this product here it's eco-friendly and
I almost got this it doesn't take long to do it. It will take it off guys I remember when I was
Union the last job we did. I mean 25 years ago we were all hoping hey I hope we don't have to
go back and do that wind all the windows we're doing a big high-rise and sure enough, the boss said
hey Kirk, need you to do me a favor, and I thought oh no, oh not the high-rise? He said, I need you to
go take a couple guys with you and remove all paper and plastic from those windows. The plastic was on
these windows about three months. man, we spent three days out there doing exactly what we're
doing here it's kind of stuff. I was telling the boss, I said man, I'd rather scrub toilets, then do
this. It's time-consuming but if you use the right product it works try not to get it all over wood
or anything else, but if you're trying to pull adhesive off of a frame especially a vinyl frame
it works you just go over and over, and over , and it does come off. Orange stuff, anyway my
name is Kirk, Jason on the camera, we thank you for watching and as usual, we'll see on our next fix.