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choice for window film is seen in this living room/dining room areas
flooded with sunlight and glare.
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After: Professional installed Vista® Window Film makes the space comfortable by cutting heat gain and loss through the glass while eliminating 99 % of harmful ultraviolet rays guards its furnishings from fading. |
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Why Window Film? Editorial by Virginia Kubler As glass is increasingly used in American homes, more and more homeowners are turning to professionally installed solar control window film to help guard against fading, to reduce the sun's glare and for energy savings. Clearly there is a conflict between a homeowner's desire for a spacious, airy interior incorporating large expanses of glass and the ravages wrought by the sun . Furthermore, there is an energy price to pay. Heat passes readily through glass approximately 50% of a home's utility bills are wasted by loss of heat and heat gain through untreated glass. Consumers have become increasingly aware of the sophisticated window films that are available and the attributes they offer. Window films are environmentally friendly. They save energy. They help protect furnishings and art from fading and help eliminate glare and hot spots. Finally they allow home owners to make optimum use of outdoor views afforded by modern spacious windows. In today's business climate, as we approach the 21st century, there exists a strong, growing potential market for window covering retailers ad suppliers to increase business with a multifaceted solution for solar control problems. High-Tech Film Solar control window film should not be confused with the automotive black tinting film of the part. Today's sophisticated window film provides an efficient as well as economical solution to solar problems. The product is a high-tech laminate of polyester and metallized coatings bonded by distortion-free adhesives. It is designed to deal with the individual electromagnetic wavelengths of the sun's energy is such a manner as to curb heat passing through the glass (infrared ) control light transmission and virtually eliminate ultraviolet radiation, the main cause of fading. The amount of energy savings per household depends on the window film used, the building's construction and the climate in which the building is located. For example, there are window films available that reject from 35 percent of the solar energy for a neutral film that is virtually impossible to detect to 79 % for a highly reflective film. And there is a wide range of films available today to serve residential and commercial needs for energy savings, aesthetics and security. New energy saving window films have been introduced recently . They are known as low-E films. Low-E stands for low emissivity, a measurement of a surface's ability of absorb heat. The lower the emissivity, the less heat is absorbed by the glass the more room heat is reflected back into the home. For window films, the lower the emissivity rating, the better. For window films, the lower emissivity rating. For example, a window film with an emissivity rating of 0.4 would reflect back 55 percent glass. An emissivity rating of 0.36 means 64 percent of the room hear would be retained. Additionally, today's high-tech window films will reject exterior solar energy that reaches windows, most of which is sensed as heat, thus yielding substantial savings on air conditioning in the warm months of the year. Windows fitted with a high quality, high-tech, Low-E window film should provide excellent visibility, transmitting 49% of all visible light, and offering an economical alternative to purchasing a standard window. Challenges One of the challenges facing a homeowners in a warm, sunny climate is to control the sun's energy during the day and to preserve privacy as well as night-time views. Many high solar rejection window films actually prevent people inside a home from seeing out but allow those outside to see in. New dual reflective films, however, have a high solar rejection rate up to 65 % for Vista Luminance by CCPFilms, and yet provide clear visibility from the inside day or night. These films are constructed with an exclusive, clear, distortion-free adhesive system and special scratch-free face coating that allows for easy maintenance using standard window cleaning products. They provide an added safety benefit by forming a shield across the glass on which they are fitted. If the glass were to be broken, most of the fragments would be held in place. As a retrofit item, window film is applied on the inside of windows and is compatible with either single or double pane glass of any shape or size normally found in today's homes. Window films are often used with decorative window treatments as a protective complement for draperies, curtains, blinds, shades and even awnings. The installation of window film is critically important to aesthetics and longevity. The best films will be marketed through highly trained specially selected dealers who are responsible for installation. These dealers need to be trained to help the home owner match the choice of film to the domestic challenge to be faced. Professional installation is quick, without the need to interrupt normal normal day-to-day activities. |
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Case Studies
Olympic Games Spectacular Performance
More than 4,057 square feet of Magnum SR-ps7 Clear Film were required to film the massive 80 feet high, multi-paned V-shaped edifice. The installation was unusually challenging because of the height of the construction and the shaped of the areas of window to be filmed. Moreover, the emplacement had to be made at night, working from specially designed elevators. |
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History Protected for the Protectors The NYC Fire Museum, located in a renovated 1004 Fire house in the SoHo district of Manhattan, houses one of the nation's most important collections of fire related art and artifacts form the late 18th Century to the present. Among its holdings are painted leather buckets, helmets, parade hats and belts, lanterns and tools, pre-Civil War hand-pumped fire engines, horse-drawn vehicles and early motorized apparatus.
While the glass atrium produces an attractive light setting it also lets heat, glare, and harmful ultraviolet light stream into the space causing the museum's irreplaceable photographs and exhibit pieces to fade. Joann Kay, the Director of the Museum, was quick to realize the atriums inherent shortcomings and speedily contacted the local LLuma dealer to help solve the problems. The outcome of their discussions was the installation on the atrium glass of 600 square feet of LLumar Magnum R20, which cuts the heat passing through the glass by some 60% and reduced glare by 85%. In addition virtually all (99%) UV light, the principal cause of fading, was prevented from entering the exhibit hall. **These case studies are just a couple of multiple case studies that illustrate how the expert distributors of CPFilms solve problems for their residential and business clients. If you want to see more examples, ask your Custom Sun Control representative. |
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Recently
the museum opened an extension, the September 11 Exhibit Hall, to
give special honor to the Firefighters who lost their lives in the
September terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The
Hall, which includes an interactive audiovisual exhibition, was created by
turning an adjoining courtyard into an atrium. The glass skylight
provides an appropriate ambience for the Memorial Wall on which the names
of the 343 Firefighters who gave their lives heroically saving others are
etched, together with photographs of the disaster that have never before
been displayed.