Residential Windows
Low-e-Cool: Residential Window Coatings & Films
Going Green with Low-e-Cool™ Coatings & Films
Typically, 25%-35% of the energy used in buildings and homes is wasted due to inefficient glass windows and doors that in the US are responsible for more than 10% of the annual carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. By installing heat-blocking Low-e-Cool™ window film, the earth is protected just a little more.
How to Make Homes More Energy Efficient
Reducing energy use in your home can be achieved by selecting energy efficient heating and air conditioning equipment and by properly insulating your home against heat loss in the winter and heat gain in the summer. According to the California Energy Commission, as much as 40% of your home’s cooling requirements are due to solar energy entering through glass. Even a small amount 
of glass on the south or west side of a home can result in overheating and increased air conditioning cost.
The best place to stop heat and reduce air conditioning to increase savings is at the window. For existing homes experiencing energy problems from heat, the most expensive option in treatments is to replace existing glass and frames with a new 
window system designed to block heat and deal with a home’s energy performance needs. A less expensive treatment is keeping existing frames and replacing only the glass. In either case of these treatments, homeowners may be reluctant to replace existing windows in their homes, whose energy saving performance is generally adequate, though not optimum in blocking unwanted heat. For all existing glass and in new construction, applied window film is the least expensive treatment and preferred energy efficient saving solution in homes.
Conventional tinted and reflective window film treatments do block heat, but they also block light. In some cases, highly reflective film treatments block as much as 85% of the visible light outside from entering the inside of homes or office buildings. The result is a property in which natural levels of light are permanently excluded. The consequent darkened interiors require increased lighting which not only adds increased energy cost, but as a generator of heat, often results in more, not less, use of air conditioning, defeating the cost-savings benefit of applied window film in the first place.
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