Help Protect Your Family With Home Window Tinting
Year after year, we try to protect our families and ourselves from the harmful effects of Ultraviolet (UV) rays as we lather up in sunscreen before heading outdoors, wear sunglasses to protect our eyes and stay in the shade whenever possible. However, even with these precautions, more than one million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year. What some people tend to forget is that indoor UV protection is just as important as the safety measures we take in the sun, and a typical house window provides no protection against UV rays. Home window tinting may be the key to helping protect your family from the sun’s damaging rays while indoors.
Harmful UV Rays Indoors
It takes less than 10 minutes for the sun to damage unprotected skin.
Whether at work or at home, UV rays can pierce through the average window, leaving your unprotected skin susceptible to sun damage. Even the necessary routine of driving to work or the grocery store can put you at a risk.
The two most harmful rays are Ultraviolet B (UVB) and Ultraviolet A (UVA). UVB rays penetrate the skin during the warmer summer months or reflect off surfaces such as snow or ice in colder winter months, and can be blamed for suntans, freckles and age spots.
UVA is the more harmful of the two and accounts for nearly 95 percent of the radiation that reaches the Earth’s surface. UVA rays are strong no matter the month and can easily penetrate through windshields, glass without window film sun protection, and lighter clothes.
Although it may seem like there is no escape from the sun, there is an easy way to help protect your family. Installing window film may be the solution to keeping your family safe from harmful UV rays in your home.
Window Film Sun Protection for Your Home
Many window films are recognized by the Skin Cancer Foundation as effective for protection against skin cancer.
Home window tinting is an easy way to help protect your skin from the sun’s damaging rays. Window film can block up to 99 percent of damaging ultraviolet rays, shielding occupants from harmful effects while still letting in a sufficient amount of visible light. By investing in window films that provide broad spectrum UV protection, you are able to lessen potential sun damage long into the future. It’s time to consider the effects of indoor sun damage as you would in the outdoors.
