I’m after some top tips for products which will protect windows when the plasterers come in please - but also any detail of how to actually do it so it can be removed once they’ve gone. Woke up thinking about it at 4am 😳 - I’m looking forward to sleeping through once we’ve finished, something to look forward to for 2026/7…. 🥱

Edited August 19, 20251 yr by DownSouth

Self adhesive window film is quick and cheap

Needs removing the minute they leave the room. 
 

Explain to the spreads that the windows have all been cleaned and photographed as being in perfect, undamaged condition, and any dings from the trowel hitting them won’t be acceptable, and that damages must be paid for.
 

You can say this non confrontationally, but you need to say it imo. That way they’ll start by being careful and continue on that way.

 

You’ll need to leave a margin of at least 10mm unprotected for them to cut the plastered edge in to, and brush it back, so the finish against the frame can be seen and made presentable.

 

I have a current client who opted for narrower frames (minimalistic) so for that job I’m going to install stop beads around the window reveals, set in with no nails, plumb and straight, with a view to removing any ambiguity of how these frames must have the same finished margin at the sides and heads.

 

I’ll either set these myself, or get the carpenters to do them, ahead of the arrival of the spreads. Same where the obtuse external angles happen where the vaulted ceilings turn / converge, using full lengths of stop bead pre installed arrow-straight to be used as a guide for the spreads trowel to run across.

 

OCD? You’re god damned right it is  but if you sit two similar jobs alongside this, mine will take 1st place on the podium = super-happy client.