Home Window Tint Drives Energy Savings And Complements Curb Appeal
Home window tint can do two things the very same day it is installed: residential window film begins to reduce your home’s energy costs within hours of installation, and it improves the looks of your property the very second the installers step away from the treated windows.
When you choose a residential window tint like Soft Tone Layers from ProLayers, the effects inside your home are subtle but tangible in terms of reduced solar heat that adds comfort and lowers bills. The outside of the home also enjoys a subtle but definite lift, as Soft Tone Layers home window tint is minimally reflective, adding an unmistakable depth to the looks of windows and glass doors without making them stand out in any sort of showy way.
Soft Tone Layers window film is one of ProLayers best home window tint products — and one of our most popular tint for homes — precisely because it does its job in such an effective but understated way. Or rather, it does its many jobs, shall we say.
Soft Tone Layers Window Tint Offers Three Primary Benefits for Residences
There are many reasons people choose window film for homes, almost all of which are met by the energy-efficient window tint called Soft Tone Layers, an architectural tint ProLayers developed over the course of many years. But there are three primary benefits of this window film for homes that you will appreciate on day one of its installation.
Residential window film adds privacy
Privacy window film for homes effectively blocks the exterior views into your property while not curtailing the view out from inside the property in any noticeable way. But don’t think that home window tint for privacy needs to dramatically change the appearance of the outside of your home. Soft Tone Layers window film from ProLayers is not a metallic or highly reflective window tint that makes windows and glass doors look like mirrors — not at all, in fact.
ProLayers developed Soft Tone Layers tinting to add privacy to windows without adding perceivable reflectivity, because most homeowners don’t want their windows looking like those of a sleek office park. By daytime, when the sun is out (and even on cloudy days, as there is still plenty of external light that pierces the cloud layer), this residential tint blocks the view into a home without it even really being perceivable and, equally important to people looking for window film for homes, this tinting does not block your view out at all. In fact, but reducing some solar glare, Soft Tone Layers film makes it harder to see into your home while making it easier and more pleasant to look out.
Residential Home window film improves home security right away
A third instant benefit of home window tint like Soft Tone Layers is one you will be able to appreciate the second your tint installation is complete, even though it’s a benefit of home window tinting that one hopes to never need: increased safety.
Window film dramatically reinforces window glass, making it shatter-resistant and making windows and glass doors much harder to break apart. Window film can prevent break-in burglary attempts by dissuading all but the most determined thieves; most people who intended to break into a home through a window or glass door, grab some valuables, and then run, will instead choose to just run when they encounter glass that cracks but won’t break apart and fall from the frame.
Home window tint customers can rest assured that their residence is safer from solar heat by day and safer against break-ins by night — or by day, of course.
Home Window Tinting Protects Your Home Against UV Fading
It may take many years for many homeowners to truly appreciate how effective the Soft Tone Layers tint they could have installed in a matter of days truly is. Because while you’ll appreciate the reduced heat and glare home window tint allows for right away, and while you’ll see reduced cooling costs reflected on your energy bill month-to-month, you may not truly notice all your home tint has done for your home until years have passed.
It can take years for the sun’s UV (ultraviolet) light to do its slow but steady and insidious damage to the interior of a home, but UV light is causing a bit of interior fading, discoloration, and damage each and every hour of every sunny day.
By blocking close to 100% of the sun’s UV light, home window tint protects your furniture, upholstery, artwork, bedding, flooring, and more against sun damage. Home window film is best appreciated when you see a residence that never got window tint installed; move a carpet that has long covered wood floors or check the color on the rear of a fabric couch and you’ll see the damage UV light has wrought each and every day.
With ProLayer home window tint applied to your residence’s windows, there will be no interior fading caused by UV light. You won’t be able to tell that the UV light is being blocked, as it’s invisible to the naked eye. But you will love the fact that your home’s interior, meaning all the furniture, flooring, and decor, still looks great even after many years have passed.
Window tint for homes starts to do its work right away, and it continues to help your residence day after day, reducing interior heat, lowering cooling costs (and lowering heating costs, too, as it improves insulation), reducing the glare, and protecting interior surfaces against sun fading. Soft Tone Layers window film for homes is a great choice for properties where the owners want all of these benefits along with added privacy and better security, and without a shiny, reflective window film that changes the look of the property from outside, save to add a bit of depth and style to the windows, which you may like to call adding a bit of curb appeal.
Home window tint will reduce heat and glare
Soft Tone Layers window film blocks much of the sun’s warming infrared (IR) light, the invisible yet hottest part of the solar light spectrum, keeping your home cooler and more comfortable. It also blocks a portion of the sun’s visible light, which reduces the interior glare. Window tint for homes makes it easier to see screens, to read, to enjoy wall art, and just to enjoy everyday life even with the curtains open and the blinds up on the brightest, sunniest days.
What many ProLayers home tint customers are fascinated to learn is that blocking both IR and visible light is critical for enhanced interior cooling and reduced energy expenses. While hot infrared light causes most of the interior warming created by sunshine passing through windows, visible light is also responsible for unpleasant interior heat. When visible light falls upon interior objects like furniture and flooring, it warms those objects and surfaces up, and this heat is then released into the interior.
By blocking much of the sun’s infrared light and reducing the volume of visible light that enters a home, Soft Tone Layers home window film makes your home cooler and more pleasant to occupy, and it makes the home more energy efficient and cost effective, though it may take a while before you fully appreciate these benefits. When your electricity bill starts to fall, you’ll appreciate the reduced HVAC costs alongside the cooler, more comfortable and glare-free home