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Hi is facebook worth advertising for residential window tinting . I figure alot of older house wives are on there . Is there a decent response for residential tinting on facebook from your experience ?

Please advise if the TSER and IRR performance of the DUB window film and the installers have good evaluation or are there any special points in construction and construction. Have a nice day.

Is purchasing a membership with the IWFA worth it? As far as I can tell they offer the ability to add their logo to your marketing and you get their newsletter (which I already get for free) earlier. They also state you can get discount but there is no clarity to what kind of discounts you can get.

Take off the fender flare if you can, tack your film at the front bottom and streach up and over. Squeegee as you go and flush the edges with straight water.

Has anyone done a Ineos before I’m having trouble with the front end of the fenders , I bulk it because the patterns not good . This area gets a lot of fingers so I make I have a lot of extra film to stretch it towards the lights or do I just need a little extra to stretch it?

> Infrared heat only makes up about 53% of the total heat we receive from the sun. So with the other 47% of the sun’s heat left out of the picture, < Almost true, except for 'infrared heat'. To clarify from Twilight's post, the only infrared 'heat' found is in the far-infrared spectrum. Near-infrared is not heat, it is solar (light) energy or solar radiation. Also, the above numbers add up to 100, so it does not account for UV. These are old school figures dating back to the genesis of the industry and have since been updated to the new, more precise numbers, sometime in the 2000-2010 period. I don't have the exact (new) numbers by decimal point, so I report them as 48%+/- VL, 48%+/- NIR, and UV being less than 2%. I am unable to state which of the two is 48.xx or 47.xx, making UV being 1.xx. Now for an example of using a selected wavelength to report NIR performance, we look no further than a 3M product publishing a number in the high 90's (I believe 97%). The reality of this number, is in the fact, taken from a single wavelength at 950nm. The most intense NIR radiation is located between 780nm - roughly 1300nm. If you look at a graphic, you will see the line tracing radiation intensity runs up and down or high and low ... 950nm has one of the lowest dips on the charting between 780 and 1300; signifying one of the lowest intensities (see attached chart). This doesn't bode well as a marketing fact.

Hello all. I have not actively tinted for about 15 years (I have done about 5-10 cars in the past decade). I just ordered a 60” roll to do a friends model 3. I am worrying about the about of shrinking needed. can you give me an idea of the complexity compared to early 2000s model cars. Is it on the same level as a vw beatle, eclipse, or? my roll arrives this weekend and I am getting nervous. tips and tricks for the rear and side windows?

I recently received a new Llumar automotive film swatch and was looking at the Ceranova ceramic films performance data. The IR energy rejected for both the 20 and 35% versions is listed as 90% The TSER is 59% and 49% respectively for these films. Interestingly the IR energy rejection for the metalized Llumar films that I normally use isn't even listed in the performance data,I wonder if it's the same?, however the TSER for the Jetblack 20 and 35 films is higher at 62 and 58%! I know what I prefer. I find it illogical to promote ceramic films as being superior, and therefore charging a lot more for them, when the IR is only a small part of the big picture. Here is an excerpt from a page I have read recently (Why Infrared Rejection isn't a complete measurement of heat rejection. - Twilight Auto Tint) Infrared heat only makes up about 53% of the total heat we receive from the sun. So with the other 47% of the sun’s heat left out of the picture, is there any point looking at the level of infrared rejection window films offer? In theory, if you only wanted to know how much heat rejection was caused by a film’s infrared rejecting technology – and not from other factors such as its colour – then an infrared rejection measurement would be very useful. It would be particularly helpful if you are looking for a film that keeps your windows light, whilst blocking out a significant amount of heat. However, there’s an important caveat to keep in mind when comparing different infrared rejection measurements: there isn’t really an industry standard to measure infrared rejection. This means that the infrared rejection measurement you are reading may only demonstrate the infrared rejection achieved within a very small and favourable part of the infrared spectrum – rather than across the whole spectrum. It means that the level of infrared rejection claimed could refer only to the very small section of the solar spectrum that also happens to give the best result. So whilst technically true, such a measurement may have little value in the real world.

Thats brilliant.

Selling film using IR is misleading and picking one by it's IR performance is short changing oneself. Here's the technical facts, confusing as they can be, will lead to a more sensible decision when purchasing film products: (N)IR is only one piece of the pie (48+/-%) and in many cases it is a select wavelength or a range of multiple wavelengths that they publish, but almost always never represents the 'entire' near infrared spectrum from, 780nm to 2500nm. The best measurement for determining a film's final performance is to compare TSER's (total solar energy rejection), the higher, the better, or SHGC's (solar heat gain coefficient), the lower, the better. After this, you must now determine how much light you want coming in. Visible light accounts for 48+/-% of the total solar energy coming from the sun. Visible light converts to far-infrared same as near infrared (and UV), once absorbed into a surface and radiates off a surface as heat (that we sense). Far-infrared is heat, near infrared is not. The sun's solar energy is comprised of visible light, near infrared light and ultraviolet light (just under 2% of solar energy). All three contribute to unwanted heat. All I can add about Johnson Films is, they are one of a half dozen film makers in the marketplace today that date back to before 1980.