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Window Tinting Levels That Will Work For Your Kansas City

When most people come to us for window tinting, specifically, it is almost always to block out excessive light and glare streaming through their windows here in Kansas City. However, there is actually a lot more to it than that and many more benefits to consider to optimize your window tinting application.  

The following items are things for you to think about and discuss with your window tinting professional in order to choose the very best window tint for your Kansas City home or office.

• The Level of privacy you want
• The amount of light you want to let in
• How much glare you get and which way your windows face (i.e. south, north, west, east)
• Whether temperature control is an issue

Window Tinting In Kansas City For Privacy

If privacy is a concern for you in your Kansas City home or business,  you likely want a lower tint percentage on your window tinting. Window films with a tiny percentage of below 20% are usually darker and hence they let in very little light but also, obscure the view from those looking in.  Textured tints are a great way to increase the percentage of light you let in to help keep things a bit brighter, while at the same time blocking views.

Window Tinting In Kansas City To Control Light Levels

For commercial spaces like stores and even restaurants, you want people to be able to see into your establishment clearly.  So, to keep the sun at bay, while still allowing for some visibility of merchandise and interiors, a sun control window tint is perfect because it has low exterior visible reflection. This is a great tint for homes too–allowing you to see outside clearly day or night because of the low reflectivity and higher level of opacity–around 50% or 60%.

Glare Reducing Window Tinting For Kansas City

Glare isn’t just annoying–it is an impediment to work and bad for your eyes.  Computer screens, TV screens are obscured by glare coming through windows and results in headaches and excessive heat too. In these cases, sun control window tints are perfect because they reduce the glare but still let filtered natural light through plus–they keep screens crystal clear! These films are typically around 60%-70%.

Window Tinting To Control Temperatures

When you are looking to control the actual heat of the sun or loss of cold air in your Kansas City home or office, heat control window films are the way to go.  Typically these films are nearly invisible–a level of clarity around 80%-90%. Some of these films work by keeping heat and cold in others work by reducing solar heat gain on windows–still, others do both.  Talk to your window tinting professional to find the right heat control tint for your situation.

Window tinting will do so much for your KC home or office and add to the quality of your life.  Contact us at Scottish Window Tinting in Kansas for more information and pricing on home or commercial window tinting!