Tinting

Window tinting is a great way to accentuate your vehicle or your house, and can save you up to 30% off of your energy bill when applied to windows at your home or business. The tinting industry has been drastically altered in the past few years with modern enhancements in the technologies that go in to making window film. In only a handful of years we went from only having a 1 layer dyed polyester film to having a multi-layer ceramic or carbon based film that blocks almost twice as much heat as the dyed film with half the required darkness to do it.

How Does this Work?

While the older dyed films blocked heat by blocking visible light, film manufacturer's sought out a way to do it more efficiently. They started by adding a layer of UV protection in front of the dyed layer, to reduce the dye fading from the sun causing the tint to turn purple or clear, and increase the heat rejection. Even with the UV layers, the dyed films are still susceptible to fading after a few years as well as adhesive failure, causing peeling, bubbling, and rippling.

After the UV layer, the manufacturers took a giant step forward by adding a layer of sputtered metalized material in front of the dyed layer and behind the UV layer. This metal layer rejected more heat by making the film marginally more reflective. Up to this point in window tinting, the only way to get a decent heat rejection was using very dark films. This reflective metal layer increased the heat blockage by 40%, giving all darkness's of film a significant boost in efficiency. The layer also greatly reduced the failure rate of film, allowing film manufacturers to give lifetime warranties for their films.

The next big advancement came with post space-age materials being introduced into the window films. Film makers began trying to keep films lighter while blocking the same as the darker films. To understand how this works, they needed to know what we feel as "heat". In layman's terms, heat comes from three significant sources: Visible light (around 38%), UV rays (around 5%), and Infrared (around 56%). While the early dyed films blocked mostly visible light, and later on, the UV rays, the metalized films blocked a significant portion of the infrared spectrum as well. Manufacturers realized that to fully block the infrared, they would either need to block out all visible light as well (making it impossible to see through) or find a material that could block just the infrared spectrum and leave the visible light spectrum mostly untouched.

Using ceramics and carbon layers, the manufacturers began testing, and eventually selling, their "spectrally selective" films. These films are designed to block 70% to 90% of the infrared spectrum while only 10% to 30% of the visible light spectrum, making them mostly appear as a clear film. These films block between 40% and 65% of the heat coming through the windows, making them as efficient as "limo tint" would be on a car.

As with all new technologies, the spectrally selective films do require a larger investment. The choice is clear, however, if you enjoy an unhindered view through your windows.

All of these film types are available in automotive, residential, and commercial applications. However, the films designed for each application are not the same. Films designed for your car's safety glass windows are unsafe for your house windows; they will cause your windows and seals to fail. Car windows are all single paned and tempered, allowing film to absorb more than reflect. House windows are rarely single paned and almost never tempered, which requires the film to be more reflective and less absorbent.

Why Choose Tint?

Tinting offers many benefits: Privacy and heat reduction, reduced fading and glare reduction. Today's homes and commercial buildings use more glass than ever before. As attractive as this is aesthetically, it leads to a host of problems ranging from excessive glare, heat build-up and high energy costs, to the premature fading of carpets, furniture and draperies. Window film can alleviate these problems while providing increased comfort and lower overall costs.

Window film is a great way to protect your investments from the heat, glare, and fading. Not only will it help your home, auto, or business become more energy efficient, it will also increase comfort and safety as well, while adding value and increasing the resale value of your home and car.

Why Choose All Signs and Tint?

At All Signs and Tint, we offer many different types of film, and take pride in collecting information from your particular application and recommending you the right film. Our residential and automotive films all come with the manufacturer's nationwide lifetime warranty against film failure. In the case of your house, if your windows are currently under warranty from the builder or window manufacturer, the window film warranty will include a 3 year warranty for seal failure and a 5 year glass breakage warranty. The manufacturers we use offer industry leading 12 to 15 year warranties (most manufacturers have a 10 year warranty).

Choose All Signs and Tint to help you make the right choice on the right film for you.

Tint Pricing

Our $100 Deal for automotive tinting is the price to beat in the DFW area. Don't trust us? Please price check! Ask for their price on a lifetime film that is warrantied against turning purple (color stable) with no legal shade restrictions. You WON'T find a better price, we guarantee it.

We are very competitively priced in our residential and commercial films, offering more value for less money. Our prices are generally anywhere from $3 to $5 per square foot for a metalized film and up to $7 per square foot for a ceramic/spectrally selective film. Unfortunately, the residential and commercial tinting market is diluted with auto tinters applying auto film to non-auto windows. While auto film will always be cheaper in the short term, long term the cost is dramatically higher (seal repair, window replacement, etc…). Auto film manufacturers won't warranty for residential and commercial installations. ALWAYS ask for a manufacturer's warranty and don't be afraid to do research on the suggested film to make sure you're covered.

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