Published on: October 14, 2021
Protecting your home from the sun’s rays has many great benefits. But installing blinds, curtains, shutters or any form of window covering requires removing natural light from entering your home and creates a complicated process of opening and closing these coverings.
Home window tinting offers many great benefits without the need to install window coverings and damage the walls and area nearby your windows.
If you’re evaluating home window replacement, you might want to consider purchasing windows with at least a mild tint to them. Here’s why.
UV rays can damage your home’s furniture, carpets, rugs and other decorative elements. If you enjoy the natural light that uncovered windows provide, you might want to get window tint on your next replacement windows.
The sun could fade your interiors unevenly. For example, if a chair is partially exposed to the sun’s rays, half of the chair could be faded, while the other half is still vibrant.
And the expense of UV damage could be quite costly. If you have leather furniture, the leather could dry out and crack much sooner than it would if it was protected from the sun. That means purchasing new furniture or reupholstering it.
Your furniture and fixtures are not the only things you’ll want to protect though. The sun’s rays can be harmful to your skin. While the sun provides great benefits like vitamin D, it also can cause skin cancer, sun spots and wrinkles.
Window tinting allows you to enjoy the aesthetic of natural light in your home without the damaging effects of UV rays on your home.
During the summer months, the intense sun rays will increase your home’s energy bills as your air conditioner works overtime to cool the home. Rooms with more windows will trigger the thermostat to turn on your air conditioner despite average outdoor temperatures.
Rooms with fewer windows will be chillier than those with abundant windows, which can create a drafty feeling in your home that you want to avoid. Window tinting provides consistent temperatures throughout your home so that you don’t have to deal with temperature extremes and running the house fan to distribute the heat throughout your home.
You’ll spend less on cooling your home and have a better indoor experience if you tint your windows slightly to reduce the sun’s impact on your home’s temperature during the summer months.
Glare in your home can cause eye strain and headaches. Plus, as working from home becomes more common, glare can make it challenging to see your screen and be productive. Not to mention how hard watching television can be with the sun’s glare.
Instead of covering your windows to prevent glare, adding a light window tint can prevent these challenging scenarios while still allowing plenty of natural light into your home.
When window coverings, such as blinds or curtains, are open, they invite prying eyes to view inside your home at all hours of the day. Hopefully, you have nice neighbors, but that doesn’t mean you want your neighbors to see everything you’re doing.
Give yourself the freedom to invite natural light into your home and watch what’s happening outside without everyone being able to see what you’re doing inside.
Plus, tinting your windows can serve as an important safety measure. If people cannot see inside your home at any given time, it can also deter thieves from learning what’s inside your home and making you their target. The more privacy your home has, the less thieves will know about your security measures, when you’re home and away, and what valuables you keep and where.
Window tinting is water-resistant, which means you won’t end up with pesky water spots after those extremely common Washington rainstorms. That will keep your view of the outside of your home clear and enjoyable.
Additionally, when you select a window tint, you can also explore scratch-resistant coatings that would reduce the blemishes to your windows throughout their lifetime. You’ll enjoy lower maintenance windows that require less cleaning and fingerprint buildup while also being able to enjoy your home’s windows more.
The presence of window tinting can also make your home more attractive to potential buyers who see the energy efficiency and protection for their new home. That can increase your home value when you decide to sell.
Still unsure whether window tinting is right for you? Read up on these frequently asked questions about window tinting and replacement windows to learn more, or contact 2FL Windows, Siding and Roofing for professional insights as to whether to tint your new windows and other must-have aspects of new home windows.
Yes, tinting house windows provides energy efficiency by keeping your home more temperate throughout the year to reduce your heating and cooling bills. You’ll also find that your home is more comfortable because it doesn’t have extremely warm areas near the windows.
Home window tinting has 5 main benefits.
Window tinting provides excellent home privacy elements during the daytime hours. However, once it is dark outside and you turn on the lights inside, others will still be able to see inside of your home.
Having blinds, curtains or any form of window covering will help prevent people from seeing inside during the evening hours. The tinting will allow you to keep your windows uncovered throughout the day so that you can enjoy the natural light in your home but you’ll still want a window covering to offer privacy and protection during the evening.
The national average for whole-home window tinting is only $587. The window tinting film can cost between $2 and $100 per square foot depending on what film you select.
However, the best way to tint your home’s windows is when selecting window replacement. That way, you ensure that the window tinting is done well and won’t become a problem later with peeling, bubbling or other unattractive issues.
You have many options for making your windows more private without adding curtains. Some options will affect your home’s aesthetics and your ability to see out of your home’s windows. Your options for making your home’s windows more private include the following.
Before selecting one of these alternate window finishing options, talk to a window expert to learn more about how these could impact the look and feel of your home.
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