Help with house window tint

BigClay

BigClay

Knower of useless ZJ things
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Winston-Salem
I have an old school front entrance to my house with solid wood double doors and double glass storm doors in-front. My house faces East and these doors get baked with the heat beaming in the glass storm doors. On the inside you can walk past the front door and physically feel the heat radiating in.

So what are my options? Is putting a film on the glass the best route? If so what should I look for and what should I stay away from?
 
^^ or paint the storm doors except a circle about head height so you can see who is a knockin' :D
 
We had the guy who tinted our vehicles come and tint all the front windows at our fire station. Made a huge difference, especially in the un air conditioned truck bay. Find a mobile tint guy and give him a call.

Duane
 
I'd never even thought about this, but someone in our neighborhood just sent something out about it. This is what he used
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Ceramic tint is worth the extra $$$ imo.
 
Ceramic dual reflective tint
A1 choice

Con: with tint you will conversely loose the uv heating in the winter

Alternative, build full sized interior shutters with glass panels, and ceramic tint that glass.

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Ceramic film. People do it all the time on commercial buildings.
 
Blaze said:
Run water tubes through it to collect the heat and supplement your water heater.
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And in the winter, supplement your freezer :D

Wait.
 
Keith1138 said:
I just installed the generic lowes tint on some of our windows and it turned out great. It also cut down on the heat by a ton and keeps the blinding reflection off of the neighbors house out. It has been on 2 months now with out any issues.

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We are a little more getto since the wife insisted we get the stained glass appearing version. That and the fact they are wood doors with the old four panes in the upper half. Storm doors are stock at least.
 
jyaks said:
I'd never even thought about this, but someone in our neighborhood just sent something out about it. This is what he used View attachment 402247
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We used something like that to black out part of a conference room at work. It was static cling though.
 
Keith1138 said:
I just installed the generic lowes tint on some of our windows and it turned out great. It also cut down on the heat by a ton and keeps the blinding reflection off of the neighbors house out. It has been on 2 months now with out any issues.

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I put the GILA frosted film on the large window of the bay (and the bottoms of the two side windows) that I installed when I did an addition a few years back. Since it is not clear glass anymore it cut down on heat load so I can only assume that the other ones work similarly or better. It was not very expensive but due to the size does ideally take two people to properly place and install.
 
Another vote for ceramic film. You don't have to go to a dark colored tint for it to be effective. Just about all the major tint manufacturers make a high VLT ceramic for these applications. HuperOptik, Llumar, 3m etc.
 
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