glazed units to make the frame easier to install, I was aghast to find that the units were securely stuck to the frame with 10mm-wide, 3mm thick doubl e-sided adhesive foam tape. Other windows I've known had a nice rubber seal that one pulls out, and then pushes back into place after the external cli p-strips are in place. I had to run a box cutter around the units to releas e them, thereby damging the foam tape. So now I'm faced with a choice of:
oving all of the old stuff (which would be time consuming, and also making way for another headache if ever I have to replace on of the units in futur e).
some 5mm rubber tubing and pushing that in, around the edges of the interna l side, after the clip-strips are back in place. Or even perhaps using sili cone. Inserting a standard/typical rubber seal doesn't seem to be an option , because there is no special recess in the frame for it to snap into.
I'm astonished the beads are external. Haven't seen a window like that for years. Most are internal for security reasons.