I've had these two windows soaking in ammonia, lined with black garbage bags in an attempt to
dissolve the adhesives that's holding the window film on because i don't want to scrape it I just
want to easily peel it off.
Why not scrape it off? Oh scraping it's way to labor intensive! Did it work on that one? This one, no not really no! Did you rush it? You rushed it didn't you.
Well I let it soak for two hours! Maybe you need to soak it for longer. Well this one's been on overnight..
Okay cool, let's try it! So your tints are faded, peeling, bubbling or hazy they need to come off and
you've probably looked at several Youtube videos suggesting different ways, maybe heating it up,
scraping, well i thought we could try out this 'ammonia method' so if you're going to be using
that method make sure you look after yourself, put on some goggles have some gloves and a mask too
to protect your lungs. We'll need to spray the ammonia mix onto the window and then with just
some cheap rubbish bags open them up and lay them on the windows so that the window stays wet with ammonia.
Ammonia is irritating to your lungs and skin because it's so alkaline if you're going to
be using this product please protect your health and wear some protective stuff there's a link in
the description of this video where i've done the research for you so i've found some affordable
protective gear that'll keep you safe, the added benefit is it's all reusable. I'm still going to
be wearing a mask because when we spray this stuff it becomes airborne and it irritates your lungs.
We're just about ready to take these rubbish bags off, it's been about half an hour.
It'll be interesting to see how well this method works
'cause that's what I was hoping wouldn't be there! This really didn't work as well as I
hoped it would using this ammonia i'm trying to avoid all that scraping so I thought well do it
properly Kent, spray it, put the bags back on and let it soak so, now to wait so that's been 2 hrs
let's hopefully see now if that ammonia has soaked through the window film and broken down the
adhesive that's holding it on, fingers crossed so it's only taken off the tint (the shaded part),
and it's left another layer behind, oh my goodness!
okay oh well what we'll do is we're going to leave this one now
how long should we leave this one for? leave it for another
hour should we leave it overnight or what do you think? so let's peel this one off
oh so far so good, is it lifting the adhesive as well as the window film
you can see there's the tint there's the second layer of film and it's coming off
now that is adhesive
so we're still going to need to scrape that layer there off
but it seems to be coming off quite easily okay let's pull the rest of this off
well that really hasn't worked like I hoped it would, i'm still going to have to scrape
all the adhesive and the tint off these windows but do yourself a favor and get
a nice wide blade window scraper with a big easy grip handle makes life so much easier
if you want to see a good video on Window tinting DIY click just there, and i'll see you there.