Can window tinting reduce heat?

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Solar Window Tinting

Window Tinting is done in order to reduce solar heat and protect from the sun’s rays and other harmful radiation affecting the furniture and other utilities inside your home or office. The process of window tinting is done in many ways and solar film is one of the most popular and the preferred way in implementing this process.

Solar Film:

The process of solar film involves coating of solar film over the surface of the window in order to block the harmful radiations from the sun. It can protect the furniture and floors by using a solar film coating over the surface of the window. Also with a superior fading control it also provides a good aesthetic value to the window and the entire house. These films are also merely undetectable once they are installed over the surface of the window.

Based on the various locations in which the solar films are installed they are classified into various categories.

Residential Window Tinting:

The window tinting at home will improve the living conditions inside the home by providing a good daytime privacy. Before the process of window tinting the kind and nature of solar film is analyzed that matches our living style inside the house.

Features Of Residential Window Tinting:

• Superior fading control that provide good aesthetic value to our home.

• Increases the physical strength and quality of the glass.

• Increases the comfort level by providing a good daytime privacy and also by reduction in glare.

• By rejecting almost 75% of solar heat it also reduces the power consumption of the house, thus saving energy and money.

• It also provides a good protection from the harmful radiations from the sun especially the UV rays.

Security:

Window tinting at home also provides an extra layer of security to our home by making it hard to break which avoids the break-ins of windows by thieves. It also controls almost 70% of sun’s rays and also decreases the power consumption of the home. These kinds of window tints are comparatively expensive when compared to other types of window tints.

Commercial Window Tinting:

The advantages of the commercial kinds of window tinting are even greater when compared to the residential kinds of window tinting. It provides a good reduction in power consumption, glare, good comfort level and increases the reputation by providing an added value to the firm. You can also read more on how to prevent sun damage indoors here.

Features Of Commercial Window Tinting:

• Reduces the heating and cooling bills.

• Provides an extra layer of security by making it hard to break by the thieves.

• Protects the glass from weather blasts and cracks which also provides an extra layer of safety to the persons inside the office by avoiding injuries related to those issues.

• Good resistant to fading that improves the aesthetic value to the firm.

Proper planning should be done before the process of installation of window tints inside the office that appropriate window tints are selected that matches the office and also improves the living conditions inside the office.

Security:

Security is one of the most important concerns while installing window tints inside the office since there are lot of delicate items inside the office it needs to be break resistant in order to be difficult by the thieves for break-ins.

The reduction in power consumption of the window tints for commercial uses are considerably higher when compared to the residential window tints because there are lot of persons inside the office where a large scale of air conditioning is required.

How Window Tinting Is Used In Reduction In Power Consumption:

Window Tints are reduces the power consumption of the building by reduction in power that is used by the air conditioning unit of that building. Under normal conditions, when the room is heated up it needs extra energy for the air conditioning system of that room to eliminate the heat present in that room. By installation of window tints to the windows of the room, it eliminates the heat from the sun coming into that room that avoids the extra energy needed by the air conditioner to drive the heat away from the room. Energy audit taken at the window tint installed houses says that there is 20% reduction in power consumption of the buildings due to the installation of solar tints to the windows of the house.

Tinting At Ceiling:

By providing tints at the roofs of the house it blocks the solar radiation to a greater extent. Also it reduces the power consumption of the building to a greater extent. Since roofs and windows are the only ways the heat can enter the house by insulating those places we will never need an air conditioner for that room because it will automatically keep the room cool at summer and hot at winter. By providing a layer of ceiling insulation it provides two times more protection than that of only window tinted buildings. Usually fiber glass is preferred for the process of tinting at ceilings.

Smash And Grab Window Films:

Smash and grab window films protects the house and buildings from thieves and burglars. Glass is one of weakest parts of the house because it is one of the easiest ways for a thief to enter a locked space. Smash and grab film enhances the windows by making it hard to break by thieves and burglars. These coating can be also given to the doors that are made by glass so that they are made difficult for the thieves to break. Due to the increase in number of crimes committed by breaking the glass windows it is to be done to keep our house safer.