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No Tampa Labor Day Home Show 2020 Window Tinting

Advanced Film Solutions won’t be doing the Labor Day Weekend Home Show this year and we all know why!

Most of us are spending way more time inside our homes than ever before. Safety from COVID is a sad reality and while we can’t stand at our home show booth we are still getting the word out about our incredible window film solutions.

We had been doing home shows at the Fairgrounds every year since 2007 demonstrating the incomparable portfolio designed and manufactured by Eastman Chemical the world leader in window film sales and technology.

No other coating can match the annual energy savings and insulating capability of this award winning film.

Solar secure films that hold glass in their frames against impact and forced entry.

 
Huper Optik Ceramic films that meet HOA rules and deed restriction.


 

Stop by and visit with our team!


Or call Advanced Film Solutions for a free in-home estimate:

813-949-3456

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Home Depot 3M Window Film Compared Vs. Advanced Film Solutions Tampa, Orlando, Sarasota

Nothing motivates me more than a confused consumer who has has received  aquote from 3M via Home Depot for their window film.


Unmatched clarity!

They were in a Home Depot  or perhaps they had their windows washed by one of their reseller agents and an appointment was set to consider window film.  

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Not just any window film mind you; rather the 3M window film that is “clear but rejects nearly all of the heat.

They have a price quote and it seems out of whack!

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They watched a demo with a Heat Lamp that “showed” how the 3M- Home Depot Film knocked that BTU number down to practically nothing!

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 The 3M guy/gal added that this clear film blocked more heat than a dark silver film.

 

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It seemed too good to be true. .
 
so. .
 

They called Advanced Film Solutions

We represent NFRC rated films like Huper Optik , VISTA Films and EnerLogic Low E Film that provide accurate measurements of window film performance on specific glass configurations.

This level playing field is one of the key factors that will enable window film to an Energy Star status in the future.

Why?

Advanced Film Solutions installs coatings that block more heat! Plus our EnerLogic Series of Low E film insulates your home during the winter!

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We NEVER exaggerate the performance of our window film portfolio, or play misleading tricks with narrow wavelength IR lamps.

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And we will never spout nonsense about films working better at angles. (After all even glass works better at rejecting heat at an angle.)

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Read INDUSTRY white papers discussing misleading IR numbers and consumer awareness of these issues. 

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IWFA – IR Ratings of Window Film

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(By the way a 20% light transmission silver film completely destroys prestige in solar heat rejected – it’s not even close!)

That heat lamp demo is fixed. 
 
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That lamp focuses heat at a very narrow and specific wavelength that the BTU meter just so happens to be calibrated to read.  

Think presto-hocus pocus

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Think Chris Angel, David Blaine or Harry Houdini!
 
 
  Facts help consumers make those educated choices.
 

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Can’t Fight City Hall? Tint It Instead With Tampa Window Film

The City Of Dunedin selected Advanced Film Solutions for our installation of LLumar Magnum 8 ML solar security window film for their City Hall Building.

The LLumar shatter film protects the facility from intrusion.  The thicker optically clear film delays, deters and denies entry while providing an invisible barrier against impact and intrusion.
 

They selected a lightly tinted 50% version that reduces glare and provides a modest energy saving benefit while eliminating 99.9% of the UV.

The dual benefit of energy cost reduction combined with the increased security made this a perfect choice!

Advanced Film Solutions is the leader in window film solutions in Tampa, Clearwater, St. Pete, Lakeland and Orlando and Sarasota-Bradenton.
 


We have completed 19,000 projects since we launched our company in early 2007.

Experience, wider variety of selections and unparalleled customer satisfaction is our commitment to our clients.

So you may not be able to fight City Hall; but there’s no doubt we could tint it!
 

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Window Film Project Autopsy – Changing Florida 3M Specifications For The Better

Changing The Specification to deliver true performance driven results.

Advanced Film Solutions recently competed against the 3M window film agents in the Orlando area to earn a high profile project at a local city hall annex.

The City of Altamonte Springs selected our Vista Dual Reflective Solar Security film over the thinner 3M NV weaker security film.

The client required removal of defective film that had been installed on the exterior of the windows.

They wanted this replaced with a dual functionality and dual benefit solar security window film.

The requirement initially was the 3M S25 NV film (which interestingly was my brainchild when I was the National Sales Manager at 3M back in 2000)

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Changing the specification; or rather meeting and exceeding the performance characteristics, was our objective and we were fortunately able to accomplish that goal.

How we did it:

  • Our Vista 28 Luminance 8 ML is thicker and stronger than the 3M thinner 5 ML film. This is easily documented thanks to the ASTM 1886 testing for impact and wind load. The Vista 8 ML met the criteria while the 3M thin film did not.
    Suitable for a broad range of applications, Vista offers security films meeting numerous certifications and test standards in the United States, Europe and around the world, including: ANSI Z97.1 and CPSC 16 CFR 1201 Cat I and II

    • General Services Administration (GSA) and United Facilities Criteria (UFC)
    • ASTM Large Missile Level C and Small Missile requirements
    • Underwriters Laboratory UL972 Forced Entry requirements
    • Factory Mutual FM Approvals 4350 Small Missile
    • EN356, level P2A

  • Both films easily meet the less stringent ASTM 1996 small missile testing which coincidentally can be applied to condo’s above the first floor. While every single window film manufacturer with an 8 ML film has met that standard; only 3M brags about this level of protection by having cynically acquired a Dade County product code .One can argue about the merits of bragging about buying a code compliance when Madico, LLumar, Vista, Armorcoat, have all met the exact same standard since 1998!
  • In terms of heat rejection, UV filtering and dual reflective capabilities the Vista Film easily exceeds requirements.

Advanced Film Solutions was awarded the project and we will do the very best job to meeting every expectation.

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Window Film USA Taking On 3M Window Film

Relentless competition defines our continued success at Advanced Film Solutions and Window Film USA.

We created a unique film portfolio composed of the industry’s leading window films to take on the “Big Name” 3M Challenge.

We Win On Glass!
 


Fortunately for us we are not battling performance or aesthetics. 

We aren’t arguing which film does a better job at reducing your electric bill or protecting your home from break-in.

This is a consumer education battle between the “perception” that 3M makes a better window film and the reality of the product their numerous agents, home depot, window genies, budget blind agents and others selling as 3M film.

This is the critical battle for the consumer’s trust based upon brand recognition or their halo of goodwill from unrelated products!


The real battle should be on the glass and that is where we win every day.

Consumers who appreciate that the reality is on their glass and that companies that incorporate DuPont polyesters, clear adhesives and patented thin film technologies certainly understand how to innovate incredibly effective solar and solar security window films.

Consumers trust the Department of Energy and their support of the NFRC.

Window Film USA represents a suite of films that have had their performance certified on specific glass configurations.

It’s on the glass where performance counts!

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NFRC rated window films like Huper Optik and VISTA demonstrated superiority in shading coefficient and total solar energy rejection.

 

Perception doesn’t mean beans unless it works. . .

ON THE GLASS!

Ceramic Films That Win ON THE GLASS!
 
 

Huper Optik Ceramic films are patented multi-layered dye free films that have lower interior and exterior reflection than glass. 

3M recently launched a re-boxed single ply ceramic film marketing it with the somewhat coy wording that this is the only ceramic film “worthy of the 3M name?”

It is evidently worthy of the Johnson, Madico, Geoshield and some private label names like that window film depot clear vue film!

 

ON THE GLASS – “their ceramic film” is reflective from the exterior view and only comes in a 60 inch width.



Perception won’t reduce your electric bill or qualify for window film rebates. 


Perception
doesn’t allow a ceramic film to meet your deed restriction where a reflective exterior view is against the HOA rules and

Perception won’t keep the thinner 3M ultra films with solar properties from failing independent impact and cycling tests.

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Advanced Film Solutions and Window Film USA Win ON THE GLASS!

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ON YOUR GLASS