Top Ten Reasons to Install Sun Screens

1. The warranty of window manufacturers is not voided with the installation of solar screens unlike that of films or tinting. The majority window manufacturers will void their warranty if tint or film is installed.

2. Screens block 90% of the sunlight and heat which makes up for 44% of the heat gain in your home or business.

3. Energy from the Sun's Rays are absorbed by the open weave design of the fabric and then dissipated through the small holes in the mesh as air passes through it. The sun is deflected before it reaches the glass.

4. Shading the sun from the exterior of your home stops the heat before it enters, a lot like a large shade tree in front of every window of your home would.

5. Screens allow for there to be more light throughout the home without compromising privacy of closed blinds. Maintaining great outward visibility, providing privacy, lowering utilities, and helping the environment by saving energy is good for everyone, especially you!

6. Unlike tinting, screens are able to be removed in the cold months or for cleaning windows whenever desired.

7. You gain privacy without closing blinds, curtains, or shutters. You can see out, but they can't see in.

8. Screens can even make windows 15% more efficient in cold months by creating a third layer of insulation for double pane windows.

9. Eliminates 90% of the UV Rays that can cause fading of valuable furniture, carpet, and bedding.

10. 90% is an average of the sun's rays and heat that are blocked from entering your home at all of the angles of which the sun hits your home. With a high profile angle of the sun in the southern or western skies there is almost 100% blockage!

Top Ten Reasons NOT to Buy Window Tint or Window Film

1. The installation of films or tinting is generally 30-50% over the cost to install sun screens.

2. Window manufacturers have been known to void warranties with film due to its ability to cause thermal shock fracture when installed on insulated glass windows which is caused by an increase of heat and pressure between the panes of glass.

3. Extreme caution is necessary for all films and tint while using any abrasive cleaning methods for to not create non-removable damages.

4. The majority of manufacturer's window warranties will not be honored.

5. The percentage of heat gain from the sun that transmits into your home, is 5 to 8 times better with window sun screens than tint or window film.

6. Solar screens are plainly and simply a better way to effectively block the heat and not the view while eliminating the sun from hitting the glass and entering the home.

7. Due to conductive heat properties of the metals found in window film, they can often be counter-productive in considering the heat that may be conduced into your home vs. what the films and tints are actually reflecting away.

8. You can't take tint off of your windows when it is not in need during the cold months without lots of time and money.

9. Aesthetics of a tint or film is easily degraded by improper installation and/or time being exposed to elements. Bubbles and/or peeling often coincides with most tint or film applications if not immediate, most definitely eventually.

10. Being that the innovations of clear films are growing, it is certain that during future cleaning of windows with such film will inevitably leave non-removable scratches, and/or could end up having an adhesion being dissolved with products that are unable to detect its existence.