Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that it is possible to remove the old ugly plastic grid from your french doors. I did it!
I used a dremel tool to cut each piece off of the frame and also used the dremel to sand each nub down, I painted it and reinstalled it. Looks beautiful. Before After
It was alot of work, but sooooo worth it. You have to take the doors apart, it took about 4 hours per door.
Hi Marq 1, I hate them too, I am so glad that I figured out a way to get rid of them. If I had all the money in the world
I'd totally replace the doors with the internal blinds, but for now these will do.
I just did the same thing. The way I did it was spray a bit of WD40 then took picture hanging wire and got it between the glass and the SDL. Reminded me of using dental floss; I just moved the wire back and forth. The SDLs came off very quickly. Then came the harder part -- removing the adhesive remaining on the glass that had been holding the SDLs in place. Again, sprayed WD40, waited a bit, and then scraped a way with a stiff scraper. This took a while bit did work. We are thrilled as the dividers obscured a nice view to our backyard; wish we had done this a long time ago. Overall the picture hanging wire was fast and easy; if there is a better way to get off the adhesive, let me know!
Door glass is tempered and scratches easily, so when a razor blade is used its always a good idea to use a brand new blade and then wet the area with some glass cleaner, so that the glass is lubricated. It's less likely to scratch when it's wet and slick.
Adhesive removers work best on glazing tape residue. But you still have to clean the glass after using them.
How to fix this on hollow doors. How to also avoid pairing the whole door. This is o a rental unit. Thanks.
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I have two skylights (Velux VSE), in-addition to opening and closing, when the remote control is changed to 'Mode 2' the glass tints dark (by applying a small electrical charge). However one of units stopped tinting. After not working yesterday, the window did darken today for a few minutes before returning to normal (the expected behavior is to stay dark for ~8 hrs before returning to normal).
I'm pretty sure the problem is the control board is not sending current when activated. The open/close operation works fine and the fact that it did work temporarily today suggests the power supply / transformer is not totally shot (right?).
Also interesting note: on the working unit there is a small light on the 2nd PCB (the one connected to the transformer) that stays on when the window is darkened, but on the broken unit the light only comes on when the control is clicked and turns off with the status LED light after a few seconds.
Anyone know how to troubleshoot / fix the power issue or find a replacement board? I contacted Velux support online yesterday but still waiting to hear back (and wouldn't mind swapping the pieces myself to save the time and money of sending a tech out).
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06-28-21, 12:31 PM
