Category: Safety & Security

Advanced Film Solutions, Tampa School Campus Security Window Film

Glass safety enhancement with Advanced Film Solutions shatter resistant window film.

The unfortunate reality in the USA was the high rate of shooting incidents at schools.

This was the harsh reality and whatever one’s political persuasion concerning weapons, mental health and second amendment debates; our primary consideration is student and teacher protection.

One significant aspect of a security approach beyond law enforcement or onsite security personnel is an increase in perimeter protection and access.

Glass is the weakest point of entry for any facility.

Thicker safety films when properly installed and attached to the window frames have a documented improvement for student protection.

Independent testing throughout the decades by the Federal government through the GSA, Army Corp of Engineering and the Department of Defense have demonstrated the efficacy of these films.

Advanced Film Solutions has built a team of expert installers who are dedicated to performing the best possible installations.

The shatter protection window film we provide are manufactured by the leaders in the window film industry.

These films meet the stringent requirements for force protection and fragment retention and impact. All the films we provide have met these standards.

There are differences in appearance between these films that are primarily based upon the solar safety combined films.

shatter film

This type of glass safety film combines a thin film solution in combination with a thick shatter film.

The nuances in appearance include the appearance of the shatter film, privacy level and reflectivity.

This aesthetic consideration is important when school safety administrators determine what type of “look” they want for their school.

Privacy considerations become critical for keeping potential threats from observing what is happening within the school.

Highly reflective films will prevent scoping and simultaneously lower interior glare and heat which is a great concern for schools in warmer climates.

Advanced Film Solutions offers the most choices in shatter film appearance while maintaining the highest level of protection.

Contact our team at 877-575-3456
Advanced Film Solutions

Tampa, Orlando, Sarasota

Staying Home? Tampa Bay Homeowners Discover Window Film Benefits

We are in “unusual”, “difficult”,  times or whatever adjective you’d prefer to use.

The bottom line is most of us are stuck in our homes or condo’s doing our part to lower the curve or just protect ourselves from this Covid virus.

Advanced Film Solutions is Florida’s largest residential and commercial window film installation company. We install solar and solar safety security window films that:

  • Reduce monthly cooling costs and lower your electric bill by 30% a month. We accomplish this result by factoring out 80% of the heat from entering your home. Your AC is more productive since it’s not working as long or hard to keep your family comfortable.

  • Our coatings stop 99.9% of the UV from coming through your windows or sliders. This protects your floors, carpets and interiors from fading.

  • We offer thicker shatter control films that not only perform the above outcomes but also hold glass in place against forced entry, flying debris or an accidental golf ball flying through your window.

  • Our films stop glare from annoying your family when they watch daytime TV or Netflix. You choose the level of filtering you prefer.

  • Our films are durable and backed with a lifetime warranty. No bubbles, peeling or color change. These films are crystal clear and transparent.

Making your home more comfortable and energy efficient makes sense more than ever.

Get a free quote by calling 877-575-3456 (Toll Free)

Advanced Film Solutions team covers the entire Tampa Bay, Orlando and Sarasota region.

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Advanced Film Solutions, Tampa, Top 15 Window Film Dealers, USA

Advanced Film Solutions was included on the Top 15 Dealers USA List per Window Film Magazine for the last three years. (2018-2020)

We have been a top dealer for the last several years and one of the fastest growing window film companies in the USA.

 

Our results are certainly a team effort and we thank our brilliant installers and sales team.

How did we accomplish this achievement?

Our objective is to meet our client’s expectations. We install the best possible solutions from a broad array of suppliers. Our experience for decades has taught us a few things about which films do the best job given the heat here in Florida.

Our installers have more experience than any competitor.

Our dedication and responsiveness contribute to our success and our thousands of delighted clients provide the recommendations we are proud to have acquired.

Advanced Film Solutions

Tampa, Sarasota, Orlando

877-575-3456

Tampa Window Film During COVID, 2021

We are as a community experiencing significant changes in the way we conduct business as the economy begins to ramp up.

Window film is an after-market solution that in many ways improves the performance of your existing windows and sliders.

In the best of circumstances our perfect customer is a home or business owner who is dealing with excessive heat, glare or fading in their home coupled with rising cooling costs and a critical eye toward home security.

The alternative to window film solutions is either coping with the current situation and doing nothing; or making an expensive decision to replace your windows and sliders with new energy efficient windows.

Advanced Film Solutions are experts at these cost savings solutions driven thin films that offer incredible ROI and long lasting (lifetime) performance.

While these are effective arguments for window film we recognize that the current virus situation requires our company to develop safety processes to protect our clients and personnel.

AFS Covid Best Practices Version 1

We are certainly not alone in this endeavor and our team is constantly focused on industry best practices along with innovative recommendations from related in-home businesses like air-conditioning, real estate, plumbing and other home contractors with similar concerns.

To that end Advanced Film Solutions is dedicated to the best window film installations being conducted in the most effective manner to limit any transmission of the Covid 19 virus.

These steps include, but are not limited, to temperature taking, masks, hand sanitizers, social distancing within practical limits.

Advanced Film Solutions is committed to being responsive to our client’s requirements while solving these glass related problems.

Call for a free estimate at 877-575-3456

Advanced Film Solutions

Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater, Orlando, Sarasota, Bradenton, Pasco County and more.

Tampa Bay Home Show Window Film Comparisons

Window film can transform your energy wasting single pane glass into energy efficient windows with high heat rejection, glare reduction and UV eliminating systems.

Advanced Film Solutions is Tampa Bay’s leading window film installation company. Our team of experts will be exhibiting at next weekend’s home show at the Florida State Fairgrounds

  • Saturday, Sept 1: 11:00am – 6:00pm
  • Sunday, Sept 2: 11:00am – 5:00pm
  • Monday, Sept 3: 11:00am – 5:00pm

Check out the best deals in Tampa for Eastman Chemical’s LLumar SelectPro high performance films.

We will display our Vista, LLumar solar and solar security window films.

Additionally we will be showing our Eastman Huper Optik ceramic window film that is ideal for deed restricted and gated communities where reflective coatings are prohibited.

Lifetime warranty is standard for our clients and our team has earned the Super service Award from Angie’s List for the 8th straight year!

Window film can:

  • Privacy films.
  • Designer films and specialty coatings.

Stop by our booth and arrange for a free estimate!

Advanced Film Solutions

877-575-3456
Tampa Bay, Orlando, Sarasota

Get The Perfect Window Film Advanced Film Solutions

Non essential workers and business owners were spending way more time at home than we’d have ever thought possible.

Now you know how bright, hot and uncomfortable you can be if your AC isn’t capable of factoring out the heat. Every afternoon some rooms get too hot and your AC energy bills are skyrocketing.

Advanced Film Solutions can make your home cooler, comfortable and energy efficient with savings up to 30% a month!

We are ready to go with more solutions than any other window film installation company in the Tampa Bay, Orlando and Sarasota region.

It’s the most cost effective aftermarket solutions in Florida and we have fully trained our team to perform safe, in home installations.

Get cool savings now!

Call toll free: 877-575-3456 for a free estimate.

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Protect Your Tampa Store With Advanced Film Solutions Glazing Film

One unfortunate result of stay at home orders is the closing of many non essential businesses in the Tampa Bay area.

Storefront businesses like retail shops, restaurants, jewelry stores are closed.

These unmanned locations are a target for burglars.

Whether you have an alarm system and video surveillance is immaterial.  These thieves smash and grab inventory before law enforcement has time to respond.

Some business owners have installed plywood like we would during hurricane events. Obviously this is labor intensive and an eye sore.

Advanced Film Solutions installs protective glazing security window film on your storefront glass including doors and windows.

These are clear optically transparent coatings that serve to hold glass in the frames.

We attach the high security impact strength film to the frames to create a complete system that prevents intrusion.

More importantly these systems are inexpensive, effective and are warranted for 15 years.

These are the very same mitigation films employed by the Federal government throughout the USA and major retail stores, landmark buildings, schools and houses of worship.

When these difficult times are over our films will still protect your location from impact, shattering and UV damage.

Get a free estimate by calling our office at 813-949-3456

Advanced Film Solutions

Tampa Bay

Advanced Film Solutions Security Film Comparison Vs. 3M

When the facility managers at a large Orlando complex recognized the value of a security solar window film installation on their curtain wall their initial inclination was to look at 3M.

The 3M specification indicated their 8 ML shatter film with a solar component for east and west facing glass.

Advanced Film Solutions was able to communicate the greater value for the installation of Eastman Chemical LLumar Vista Solar security film.

The advantages of the Advanced Film Solutions was higher solar filtering properties, equal or greater puncture and tensile strength and no loss in any documented independent shatter film security life safety standard.

Furthermore, the proposed and accepted attachment standard wet sealant is an industry and government accepted standard.

Advanced Film Solutions is unique in our ability to provide superior installations of window film for commercial and government buildings throughout Florida.

Our team of experts meets all our client’s requirements in terms of timeliness, as well as the desired safety improvement at the best value in the industry.

The Eastman portfolio includes 10 X the number of choices as compared to the extremely limited 3M portfolio. Here again the LLumar, Vista shatter control films never takes a step backward as directly compared to whatever 3M film is being proposed.

This level playing field based on GSA, Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers and building codes is our distinct advantage.

If the client’s perception is that 3M is the best choice that perception can only be based on the brand recognition rather than the actual field efficacy of the competitive films Advanced Film Solutions offers.

The same advantage holds for residential installations of solar clear or solar security combination films.

For a free estimate call our office toll free at : 877-575-3456

Advanced Film Solutions

Tampa Bay, Orlando, Sarasota

 

 

Advanced Film Solutions, One Of America’s Leading Window Film Companies

Advanced Film Solutions, based in Tampa Bay with offices in Sarasota and Orlando has been recognized as one of the leading residential and commercial window film companies in the USA!

A recent Window Film Magazine highlights our position in the residential and commercial sectors and our lead automotive installer was profiled in this issue as well.

Our founder Mike Feldman has a regular featured column in the Window Film Magazine under the title of Dr. Of Tintology where he provides his perspective on the industry as a whole.

 

Advanced Film Solutions was founded in 2007 by Mr. Feldman the former National sales manager of 3M Window Film where he took an early retirement after 33 years.

Advanced Film Solutions is unique in offering the leading window film solutions from major manufacturers like Eastman Chemical’s Vista and LLumar SelectPro as well as Huper Optik and SunTek. Advanced also represents Madico and Sunscape, Solar Gard and Armorcoat and Hanita Solar Zone and Safety Zone Films.

Advanced Film Solutions has earned the Super Service Award from Angie’s List for eight consecutive years and we are A Plus Rated by the Better Business Bureau.

Mr. Feldman will be one of the panelists in our Industry convention next week for Leading Window Film Dealers.

Our team of dedicated installers and sales consultants are the best in the business. We will have four installers competing at next week’s conference to compare their skills against the world.

Take advantage of our always competitive pricing and experience.

When you want to improve home safety with our security impact films or wish to lower your cooling costs and protect your furnishings it’s always a great idea to call Advanced Film Solutions toll free at 877-575-3456

ADVANCED FILM SOLUTIONS

Tampa’s Home Show Window Tinting Advanced Film Solutions

Solar control window film has been available since the 1950’s.

The evolution of thin film technology and adhesives has vastly improved over these decades as you would expect.

Today’s high teach window films are available in many iterations that provide durable high heat rejection warranted for a lifetime of comfort and reliability.

Many consumers prefer lighter coatings that are nearly invisible to cut high temperatures without altering the aesthetic appearance of their home’s windows, doors and sliders.

Stop and visit our booth at the Tampa Home Show today through Sunday at the Convention Center!

The key objective is to lower cooling costs without adding any interior or exterior reflectivity. This becomes critically important for deed restricted communities or condominium associations that prohibit reflective films.

The solution required to provide this type of heat rejection without substantially darkening the windows is the implementation of IR heat rejecting films that attack the invisible wavelengths. IR wavelengths represent nearly 50% of the total solar energy.

Since visible light wavelengths represent the balance of the total solar energy a window film that combines visible and IR filtering will provide the best value for the home consumer.

Advanced Film Solutions represents the Eastman Chemical’s Huper Optik IR heat blocking solar films.

Huper Optik is available in multiple light transmissions that attack visible and IR heat.

The ceramic coatings are responsible for light filtering rather than dyes. Dyes will color migrate and fade in a short amount of time. It may also be the case where surface applied dyes are easily scratched from the film.

Petented Huper Optik is 100% dye free and the combination of visible light and IR rejection is unsurpassed in the industry.

Key FAQ’s:

  • IR heat lamp gimmicks will appear to demonstrate superior heat rejection but the sales demonstration is an illusion. Since visible light represents 50% of total solar energy any IR heat lamp demo is automatically leaving out 50% of the typical homes heat gain.

  • All window film works better when the sun is at an angle to the windows. There is no film that provides any additional capabilities compared to another at an angle.

  • Ceramic films are far more durable than dyed coatings (refer to 3M Prestige multi-layered optical films,)

Advanced Film Solutions is your best solution for lighter high performing coatings.

Call for a free estimate toll free at 877-575-3456

Tampa Bay, Orlando, Sarasota-Bradenton, Clearwater