If you’re looking for easy ways to cool down your home this summer, window tinting might just be your solution.
How to Save Money and Reduce Heat This Summer
At a Glance: The Benefits of Commercial Window Tinting
Brower’s commercial window tints and film can help protect any business or workspace by offering cost-effective heat reduction and insulation benefits, additional security, glare reduction for increased safety and comfort, and a safeguard against vandalism. Below, learn how investing in Brower’s services today can contribute to your business space’s longevity by putting the brakes on…
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Regulate Your Home’s Moody Spring Temperatures with Window Tinting
Seattle Springs are a confusing season. It will go from cold, blustery, and overcast to a beautiful clear sky and shining warm sun in less than an hour, making it hard for a thermostat to keep up. A home uses a great deal of energy trying to regulate inconsistent temperatures, and keeping pace with the…
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Why Is Window Film a National Good?
Window film isn’t just good for your home, it’s good for the city you live in, and indeed for the whole country. When you install window film, you’re dramatically lowering the cost of cooling and heating your home because it requires less energy to keep heat in during the winter and out during the summer.…
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Why Utility Companies Love Window Film
As climate troubles persist and much of the nation's western states continue to recover from last summer’s devastating drought, utility companies and state and local governments are investigating methods of better utilizing generated energy and preventing needless energy loss in both residential and commercial buildings. According to the International Window Film Association, utilities and government…
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Winter Gardening Tip: Get Window Film for Your Greenhouse!
Now that the temperature’s dropped, most gardeners have hung up their trowels for the season. Unless you have a greenhouse, that is! Greenhouse gardeners are able to keep a year-round growing season thanks to their carefully insulated and temperature-controlled environments. In today’s world, many greenhouses are made from materials other than glass, like polyvinyl chloride…
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Everyone’s Least Favorite Winterizing Methods
When winter hits, people do a lot of things to make sure their home stays cozy. And though many of these methods work decently, a lot of them are not only a huge pain in the neck to execute but also create quite an eyesore. Here’s a list of some of our least favorite ways…
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Kerry Park Townhome: Interior Shots
We featured one of the homes we recently completed in a previous blog, showing you how beautiful it looks from the outside. Window film is not only a good way to regulate your home’s energy usage and prevent fading, but it actually adds a curb-side aesthetic appeal that cannot be beat. Check it out: We…
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Seattleites: Don’t Forget that UV Rays Penetrate Cloud Cover!
Have you ever gotten a sunburn on a cloudy day? If you live in Seattle, you probably have! We experience a lot of cloud cover here in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, we’re the cloudiest city in the US! Seattle experiences an average of 226 days of heavy cloud cover (where clouds cover more than…
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3 Tips for Winterizing Your Home
Now that it’s the fall, everyone should be thinking about winterizing their home to save them on heating costs this winter. The seasons are changing, and the temperature’s dropping, and you want to have your house ready for the the cold months before they’re here. Not only is it a lot harder to winterize after…
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Window Film Make-Overs: Window Film’s Aesthetic Appeal
Did you know that window film not only protects the inside of your home from fading and heat, but it also makes it look better from the outside? It’s true! Though we usually focus on the scientific benefits of window film in our blog, we think it’s worth mentioning that it will also increase your…
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Last Year’s Window Film Can Get You a Tax Credit!
Window film is one of the greenest home improvements you can make, and Congress has been granting tax credits for it since the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. This year, the retrospective credit for window film was renewed once again, so if you had window film installed in your home during 2014, don’t forget…
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Top 5 Reasons Window Film Beats Curtains
If your home is too bright and you need some kind of solar control, you might be tempted to install heavy curtains. After all, that’s how people people have protected their dwellings from sun and heat for hundreds of years. But you know what? It’s 2015! Modern technology has a much better solution: window film.…
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Is Your Office “Over-Lit?”
Even though a dark, gloomy building is what most of us imagine when we think of a poorly-lit office, many employees actually suffer from over-lighting. Recent studies have shown that the standards of appropriate and necessary lighting have changed dramatically from when they were first set in the 1970s, particularly because of our new era…
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Glare Reduction with Window Film
One thing we aren’t very used to in Seattle is all this sun. This has been a record-breaking summer for heat, which means we’re also getting a lot more light than usual. Without our typical cloud cover, you might have noticed you’re having more problems with glare off of glass surfaces lately. Window film can…
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Seattle’s Hottest Summer: Cool Off With Window Film!
If you feel like this summer has been a lot hotter than last year, or maybe any year, it’s not just your imagination—Seattle had a record-breaking June in terms of temperature. The average high temperature for June was 78.9 degrees, which completely smashes the previous record of 75.8 degrees, which was set in 1992. As…
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Shedding Some Light on Low-E Windows
Shedding some light on the confusion surrounding low-e windows, which do not slow down fade in your indoor fabrics OR block UV rays.
Invisible Protection: How Window Film Can Help Your Home
A lot has happened in the window film and tinting industry over the last 20-30 years. No longer do you need a darkly tinted window film in order to get adequate protection against heat loss, harmful UV radiation, and excess glare. Here are a few ways adding window film can benefit your home: Lower Energy…
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3 Ways to Upgrade Your Home in Time for Spring
Spring is right around the corner and if you're a homeowner, you've probably got a hefty list of chores and upgrades for your home before the season changes. Everyone's got a spring-cleaning list, so we'll skip that. But there are a few important changes to consider that will save you money and improve you home's…
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Improve Energy Efficiency in All-Glass Buildings with Window Film
All-glass buildings are gorgeous and provide amazing views for their occupants. But studies show that they're largely inefficient by the nature of their design and even the best windows insulate about as well as an inch of wall insulation. This causes significant problems during summer and winter months, as heat passes through glass very quickly.…
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