A small, targeted installation at a private home in the Showfield development in Lewes, Delaware. Approximately 20 square feet of dining room glass treated with 3M Night Vision 25, where strong morning and midday sun was the homeowner's fade concern.
A homeowner does not need to tint an entire house when one small bank of high-exposure windows is the actual problem. In this Showfield home the dining room was the room raising the concern, and the dining room is where the work stopped.
Those windows take strong morning and midday sun, with the light landing directly on the floor and furnishings through the middle of the day. The homeowner's stated goal was to help reduce contributors to fading across roughly 20 square feet of glass.
Night Vision 25 is a dual-reflective sun control film — more reflective on the exterior face, with lower interior reflectivity than the exterior-facing side, though window reflections can still be visible at night. It was specified so the dining room could get meaningful sun control on high-exposure glass and still read as a room people use during the day.
Published manufacturer performance is on the 3M Night Vision 25 technical data sheet and is tied to specific glass conditions. No measured temperature, energy or before-and-after figures are published for this home.
Fading is multifactorial: ultraviolet light, visible light, solar heat, and the quality of the material, dye and environment all contribute. Window film can help reduce major contributors reaching a room through the treated glass, but it cannot make an interior fade-proof and no specific result is promised.
The finished photographs show the yard, plantings and fence line still clearly readable through the treated glass. How a shade reads in any room depends on the glass, the orientation and the interior finishes, so we recommend evaluating a sample in the actual room.
3M Night Vision 25, a dual-reflective sun control window film, on the dining room windows only — approximately 20 square feet of glass in total.
No. Fading is multifactorial — ultraviolet light, visible light, solar heat and the material, dye and environment all contribute. Film can help reduce major contributors, but it cannot make an interior fade-proof and no specific result is promised.
Yes. This project treated a single sun-exposed dining room window bank of roughly 20 square feet and left the rest of the home untreated. The glass in each opening is still reviewed before a film is recommended.
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