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An "Extra" Level of Protection for Your Home
You may already be aware of the many benefits window tinting provides. It can protect you and your home by filtering out virtually all of the sun's ultraviolet rays, the largest contributor to premature fading and damage to your furnishings. It can also block out heat, provide glare reduction, energy conservation and a host of other benefits.
Not only can glass tinting protect the life of your home and furnishings, but it can also protect your physical safety. If you live in an area like Southern California, where earthquakes are a constant threat, window films provide an extra level of protection you can't afford to be without.
The Hazards of Shattered Glass In Earthquakes
In California, a major earthquake can happen at any moment. Statistics show that over 120 earthquakes of 6.0 or greater magnitude occur worldwide every year. Since California is fractured by numerous geological faults, the odds are that you'll experience a major earthquake at least once in your lifetime.
While your house may withstand a major earthquake, the glass in your windows and doors probably won't. Most California homes will withstand strong seismic shocks because they are flexible, but the glass in their houses isn't.
Glass is extremely dangerous because it can literally explode into dangerous shards of flying and falling fragments. In the Loma Prieta quake, for example, almost half of over 3,700 injuries were from glass. Glass may be the single most common cause of earthquake-related injuries. With new technologically advanced high performance safety film, injuries from shattered glass are entirely preventable.
Window Films Hold Shattered Glass In Place
Window films can cover all your glass areas with a tough, clear coating that resists punctures or tears, shielding occupants from flying glass during earthquakes. When the glass breaks, dangerous fragments are held in place by a tear resistant barrier. Films made with a unique micro-thin multiple layer construction thus create an invisible shield to protect your family from injury.
Also, often after a quake, there's no replacement glass or even plywood available for repair, and your home is left exposed and unprotected against the elements. Just consider the amount of water damage people could have suffered a few years ago had the Northridge quake occurred in a rainstorm. With windows treated with custom-fitted film, if the glass breaks, your home is still protected.
Window films also serve as a protection against crime. The film provides a more impenetrable shield over your windows to ward off thieves by dramatically increasing the time it takes to break in and enter. Intruders are thwarted in their attempts to quickly gain access to your home and may abandon the attempt when the risk of capture is greater.
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