Window Film Brands for Your Chicago Home: Style, Privacy & Protection

Top 3 residential window film brands

Right now they are the only ones that we work with — and we give solid guarantees for installation and quality. Here are top-3 film manufacturers recommended by Tinting Chicago experts: SunTek, 3M, and SOLYX.

SunTek

SunTek is the most popular brand among Tinting Chicago clients. It belongs to Eastman Performance Films, LLC, one of the leading manufacturers of glued films.

We recommend SunTek as a perfect correlation between price and quality. 90% of our customers choose this brand for their houses.

SunTek offers a full range of innovative solar, security, and specialty film solutions to improve window characteristics.

• Solar products are modern, high-quality films for climate control, they protect from solar heat, bright natural light, and harmful UV rays. This type of window tint also helps to reduce harsh glare and hot spots, create a nice comfy atmosphere, and increase energy efficiency. It can be reflective, dual-reflective, sputtered, or neutral.
• Security window films help to reinforce the glass to resist burglaries and increase accidents. There are also anti-graffiti films that serve as protection from unwanted art on your windows.
• Specialty films are made for decoration, and also help to create a cozy private atmosphere. These films can be white matte, blackout, white-out, and crystal. Choose one of the decorative window films and your house will appear with a unique, stylish look — both indoors and outdoors.

You can choose the percentage of VLT (visual light transmission): from VLT 35%, which is the minimal level of privacy when the shapes of the objects could still be seen, to 15% — the medium level, or even 5%, which will make you almost invisible from the outside.

3M

Classic American brand of tinting with a respectable reputation. One of the most expensive we are working with. The 3M company is actually considered the inventor of the glue film and it produced literally any kind of existing film including automotive, residential and commercial building tinting.

All of the 3M window films were tested in different weather conditions even in extreme ones. You can watch an amazing video to know how the company is working on the durability of high-performance window films.

3M™ Window Film — Window Film Weather Testing

To learn how to work with these films, Chicago Tinting installers went to a professional school and got certificates from 3M. So if you are choosing the 3M brand for your house and looking for the best window tinting near you, call Tinting Chicago, we have all the needed knowledge and experience for the film’s installation.

SOLYX

SOLYX is a subsidiary brand of the 3M company. The price for its products is cheaper than 3M, which is why this brand is also popular among homeowners. The brand manufactures mostly decorative film. These films are designed with a variety of transparencies and visible light transmissions providing different degrees of privacy.

Moreover, the brand has a wide range of colors, shades, patterns, and effects you can choose for your house to turn it into an art space. There are a few categories of window tinting:

• Patterned privacy films
• Static cling films
• Gradient films
• Stained glass films
• Exterior films
• Colored films
• Specialty films
• Frosted & Etched
• Elegant textured films

All the SOLYX home window films are high-quality products and have a guarantee for long time use. Get the free estimation right now and we can start changing your house shortly. Just dial 773-455-0467 or 312-212-0493 or contact our friendly 24/7 customer support via our website.