Do you love to watch the sunlight streaming through certain windows of your home? We all use natural light in various ways, such as highlighting aspects of our interior décor, and finding other ways to use the sun to enrich our environment. Unfortunately, we also know that prolonged exposure to direct sunlight and its harmful UV rays can cause skin cancer and other health risks.
Additionally, the Arizona sun’s damaging rays can degrade many materials inside your home, your business, and your car’s interior. The harsh sunlight can also fade and crack your car’s paint. Professional installation of high quality window films is a wise investment that offers long-term protection from sun damage to your belongings.
UV Degradation
Certain materials will begin to break down under the sun’s ultraviolet rays. The UV radiation causes damage on the molecular level. The molecules start breaking apart, causing chemical and physical changes. This process is called UV degradation, and the changes are often permanent.
This type of UV damage affects natural and synthetic polymers, including a number of rubbers and neoprene, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Certain dyes and inks, like the ones used in artworks, textiles, and polymers, can also be affected by UV radiation, in a similar process called photodegradation.
Damage from UV Exposure
We’ve talked about how UV rays can break down certain materials. Now let’s talk about what damage UV radiation can do to these materials. For many natural and synthetic polymers, UV rays can cause fading, cracking, strength loss, loss of flexibility, and disintegration.
Textiles, artwork, and polymers can also fade or change color, and may become chalky on the surface, without UV protection. Plastics and wood can become warped or misshapen. This is why it’s so important to have adequate UV protection, and window films offer a perfect solution.
Residential Window Tinting
Window tinting offers UV protection and the perfect solution for the windows of your residence. Window films have an aesthetic appeal, with a tinted appearance, or they can be essentially invisible. Residential window tinting provides reliable protection, safeguarding furniture and wooden surfaces in your home from harmful UV rays, and many other terrific benefits.
For example, window films help with energy efficiency by maximizing heat reduction, and minimizing heat gain. This happens through reflective qualities and absorption, with the right window tint. This lowers indoor temperatures, saving you some of the cooling costs associated with air-conditioning.
Commercial Window Tinting
Your business tinting can be compared to residential window tinting, as far as certain benefits. But there are also a few different points to consider here. Installing window tint is a smart investment for your Arizona business. Window tinting gives you UV protection, makes your office or building more energy efficient, and doesn’t have an unreasonable price tag.
Furthermore, by reducing heat gain with solar absorbing window tint films made to reflect UV rays, you are effectively enhancing indoor comfort for your customers and employees. By having tinted glass you’ll be minimizing glare, which is especially useful if you have office equipment with screens. Block harmful UV rays, reduce glare, and get UV protection with tinted windows, for any commercial setting.
Car Window Tinting
In Arizona, professional car window tinting is quite common. As you can imagine, blocking UV rays and glare reduction with window tinting for your vehicle is high on the list! Due to the fact that AZ. has strict tinting laws, it’s best to have it done by the pros. Here at ABC Window Tinting, we can help with any of the options here, and more!
Window tinting for your vehicle is a smart decision, especially in the Arizona heat. Window films reduce glare, enhanced visibility, and provide UV protection by blocking the harmful UV rays that damage your car’s interior, as well as its paint job.
Basics of Vehicle Window Tinting Laws
Professional window tinting for your vehicle is slightly different from other windows, due to the tint laws in Arizona. In finding the perfect tint for your car windows, many people ask, how much light needs to pass through the window tinting for it to be legal? The answer is 33%, for your front side windows.
Front side and rear side windows must also be no more than 35% reflective. The rear windshield and rear side windows can have window tinting of any darkness. But if the rear windshield has window tinting, you must have dual side mirrors. ABC Window Tinting is happy to assist you in blocking UV rays with the perfect window films for you!
More On Window Films
Regardless of where you want your window tinting, we can help you find the right window films for UV protection in every space, while still allowing in natural light. Ceramic films are some of the most popular, due mainly to their superior UV blocking capabilities. In addition to UV blocking, these window films also block a significantly higher amount of infrared heat, which makes your interiors cooler.
UV protection is one of the greatest benefits of window tints, not to mention the energy efficiency factor. In fact, UV protection even helps reduce health risks. You can request a free instant quote anytime. We look forward to helping Arizona residents protect interiors, providing robust protection from the dangers of ultraviolet radiation
