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Tampa Sweatiest City In USA, Window Tinting Tropical Heat Solutions

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Tampa was selected as the sweatiest city in the USA!

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We are justifiably proud!

As we approach Thanksgiving the heat index can be 90 degrees or higher.

 

Window Tinting reduces monthly electric bills by 30%!

Your AC is working full time handling the heat or perhaps trying valiantly to keep up with that heat?

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Advanced Film Solutions is Florida’s leading installers of heat blocking UV control solar and solar security film coatings.

Our coatings stop the heat at the window and can factor out up to 84% of the total solar energy.

Let someone else be sweaty in their own home!

 
These films are optically transparent and we offer more choices in light transmission as well as non-reflective and dual reflective than any other company.
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That enables us to match your exact requirements and specification in appearance and light control management.

Our experts have earned Angie’s List Super Service Award for 9 straight years and our team earned The Best Of Home Advisor Award for superior customer service.

 

Call for a free estimate and start enjoying comfort and lower energy costs immediately!

Advanced Film Solutions
Toll free: 877-575-3456

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3M Window Film Comparisons Tampa Bay, Orlando, Sarasota

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Yes. .
 

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When we left 3M Window Film nearly 18 years ago our goal was to compete head to head with our 3M window film competition.

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Certainly we were motivated after spending a few years with that company (33 years!)

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The critical advantage we have is knowing the 3M Window Film limitations and recognizing which window film solutions offered superior value for our clients.

That of course isn’t enough.


You’ve heard of 3M.

You have to acknowledge their brand power and the halo effect of good will based on the thousands of products they make and their “image” of innovation.

Heck I was once a 3M guy and to paraphrase Tommy Lasorda; “I had 3M Red flowing through my veins.”

Of course that has absolutely nothing to do with whether their window film solutions can match competition.

Particularly Advanced Film Solutions!

It’s their perception of performance that was the chief sales obstacle to overcome.

Winning on the glass is actually the easiest mission to accomplish.
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We win when our clients can see the clarity of our films.
 

Yes-it is that OBVIOUS!

So the challenge has been to slap consumers on the side of their heads (figuratively speaking, of course) with FACTS.

Facts like the NFRC Ratings that quantify window film performance on various window systems

Facts like solar heat gain rejection for their prestige films that dispel any baloney claims about 97% heat rejection.

 Facts like independent and objective testing for fragment retention,

Facts that dispel the notion that their film has any advantage in hard coat.

Facts like they don’t actually make “their” ceramic film so they can hardly brag with a straight face about how clear “their film” looks implying it’s a result of their innovation.

Facts like all films and glass itself will perform better when the heat source (Sun) is at an angle to the glass.

 

Will facts win the day?

Does a side by side comparisons of superior Vista and Huper Optik optical clarity win the day?

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Yes. you can see the difference and no,we didn’t Photoshop this!

Only if, and when, we have the opportunity to educate our potential client.
So. .

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Call 3M.

Go to the Home Depot store.

Watch their gimmick demo using a heat lamp and btu meter and get their astonishing quote.

Then. .
 

And this is extremely important. . .

Call Advanced Film Solutions, toll free at
 
877-575-3456
 
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You’ll be happy that you did!
 

Compare Tampa Window Tinting Eastman Vs. 3M Window Film

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Advanced Film Solutions is Tampa Bay’s leading installation company for high performance solar and solar security window film in the Tampa Bay, Bradenton-Sarasota and Orlando area.

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Our flawless installations have earned our team the Super Service Award from Angie’s List for 10 consecutive years and an A Plus rating with the Better Business Bureau.

Our experience having been with 3M for 33 years and followed by 17 years as an independent, family owned business is unmatched by any local competition.

Our experience supports the fact that we represent the Eastman Chemical window film portfolio.

We compete directly with our former company (3M) and it’s the direct film to film comparison that wins the day for Advanced Film Solutions and Eastman.

Vista & LLumar versus 3M reflective and dual reflective films.

The Eastman portfolio begins with the LLumar brand of films.

These are the best selling solutions in the USA. All LLumar films are NFRC rated and the dual reflective series is available in wider ranges than the limited 3M Night Vision or the 3M re-boxed Affinity films.

LLumar offers bronze films (3M does not)

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LLumar has coatings that block 95% of the visible light while 3M does not.

LLumar has 8M security films in clear, and solar versions while 3M is very limited in light transmission of the film they actually make or the films they repackage and sell under their name.

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The Vista line exceeds any 3M solution in the security or solar spectrum.

These films have a transferable warranty and are available in nearly ten times as many light transmissions and performance characteristics.  

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The Eastman Huper Optik series is ideal for deed restricted neighborhoods and condo’s where exterior reflectivity is prohibited.

These Huper Optik films qualified for TECO rebates where the 3M prestige films sold by their agents and home depot did not.

The Huper Optik films are dye free while 3M requires dyes to darken their film. Unfortunately the darkest 3M prestige film filters out 60% of the light. Huper Optik blocks more heat and glare in 4 additional darker light transmissions all less reflective than glass.

It’s not really a fair contest.

3M has a name and a perhaps a recognizable logo.

Call Advanced Film Solutions for a free estimate toll free 877-575-3456

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Window Tinting Comparisons, Advanced Film Solutions, Tampa Ready

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Let’s assume that you are researching the Internet for the best value and highest quality window film for your Tampa Bay or Orlando home.

Here are a few basics:

The window film is applied on the interior of your windows. 
 


There are a variety of light transmission choices and various thicknesses that allow the film to hold glass in place should a burglar try to break through your glass.

1932554_726033407430133_1017206962_oEveryone you talk to purports to offer the best solution, the best product and of course, the best installation.

You are probably familiar in a cursory way to the 3M brand since you have bought Scotch Tape sometime along the way. 

Many of the other brands are new to you but you are open minded.

How do you weed through the noise and confusion to make an educated choice?

Advanced Film Solutions

Since 2007 we have installed our films in more than 32,000 homes across the Tampa Bay, Orlando and Sarasota region.

No other company has done as many homes, offices or buildings.

We have earned the Super Service Award from Angie’s List for 9 straight years.

Check our local competition!

If you did it; it isn’t bragging.

You may have seen our advertising or heard some of our radio spots?

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We are unique because we offer the leading window film brands in this industry.

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We are not stuck with one manufacturer or a quota system.

We have done our homework to make it easier for you to receive the perfect match for your requirements.

We do not offer 3M Window Film.

Ironically (to me) after 33 years at 3M, they are my competition.

Matching up and offering higher value window films against 3M is our easiest challenge.

Call us at 877-575-3456

As a consumer you want hard facts and as a solutions company that’s what we offer.

Our films are NFRC rated and certified for their ability to keep heat out.

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 Experience in ease of installation coupled with customer satisfaction are what drive our business.

We can show you the differences and point out why one film may be better suited for your requirements. 

Cost is always an issue and having choices provides a better ROI for our clients.

Call Advanced Film Solutions and find out why we have grown into one of the largest volume window film installation companies in the USA

Toll free for a free estimate and comparison:  877-575-3456

 
 

Clear Winner-Ceramic Window Tinting Film Versus Multi-Layered Optical Film

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Our business plan at Advanced Film Solutions wasn’t created accidentally.

We developed a strategy that would allow us to compete and win in every residential or commercial consumer competition.

Deed Restricted or gated communities, golf communities, condo’s and town houses. Gulf, bay or lake view properties. High end retail stores (jewelry, curious, furniture, rugs, clothing retail stores and financial institutions.

Homeowners are comparing our Huper Optik Ceramic Films versus the 3M Prestige Film that they have seen at home depot kiosks throughout the region.

 

Advanced Film Solutions is unique in having a thorough and extensive familiarity with both solutions. After all we were with 3M for 33 years and was once the National Sales Manager of 3M window film.

Here is our “Reader’s Digest” comparison:

  • Huper Ceramic Films are available in a 20%, 30% and 35% Visible Light Transmission that all out perform the 3M  Prestige 40 in heat rejection (we qualified for the TECO energy rebates, they did not!)
    Huper Optik has a natural hue as opposed to the 3M blue-ish appearance.
  • Huper Optik films do not present iridescence “rainbow effect” on the transmitted light. The prestige films do produce this multi-colored effect on light color walls or tile.
  • Huper Optik Ceramic Films have a durable color fast scratch coat.  The prestige color is a virtue of a dyed layer on the top surface of their film.  These colors can be scratched from the surface on all of their “tinted” versions.
  • Optical clarity.  Our films have no distortion or haze effect. We will match any Prestige film side by side for visual clarity!1377550_649384238428384_1092466071_n
  • Take the Huper Challenge and compare them side-by-side. You will observe why Huper Optik is the clear winner!

  • Huper Ceramic Films won’t  interfere with cell phones, wireless, or fiber optic EM transmissions.
  • Huper Optik is less reflective than glass so your day and night views are preserved.
  • Huper Optik ceramics do not corrode in humid environments. Prestige will not corrode. Any implication from their side that our ceramic films corrode is pure fabrication.

  • All ceramic films, and metal films for that matter work better when the sun is at an acute or obtuse angle. Prestige is similar in that respect, as is clear glass. Implications that their film meets some type of extraordinary testing standard is 100% disingenuous.
  • Huper Optik Ceramic Films are NFRC Certified for performance characteristics.

Miscellaneous:

  • They “invented” window film and make thousands of products.
    -Response: They are a terrific company and they did not invent window film, they patented a metal application to polyester films. That was 40 years ago and lots of things have changed.
  • They can use Windex, we can’t?
    -Response: utterly ridiculous particularly with prestige film. Take a Scotch Brite abrasive sponge to their film and watch the color come right off. Do the same with Vista or Huper! Go on. .you’ll see who has a hard coat!
  • Better Warranty?
    -Response: Our films have a lifetime warranty as do theirs! Our is transferable to the next homeowner; theirs ends when you sell your home!
  • “We are 100 plus years old; and ‘they’ may not be around in the future!”
    -Response: Eastman is a multi-billion dollar company borne from Eastman Kodak.

Compare for yourself and get the clearest comparison in Florida Huper Optik Films against 3M Prestige films.

Advanced Film Solutions, 877-575-3456.