Main Line Window Film for Stone Colonials, Estates and Lancaster Avenue

UV Window Film for Main Line Stone Colonials and Tudors

Main Line housing is known for stone colonials, Tudor revivals and large houses on wooded lots. Many are furnished with antiques, oriental rugs, family portraits and libraries that have spent decades near the same windows. Even with mature trees outside, rooms facing open lawns or driveways take enough direct sun to fade them.

Clear UV film is the most common Main Line request. It is almost invisible on the glass and does not change the look of a historic facade, while stopping most of the ultraviolet light that fades fabric, paper and wood finishes. On older homes with original divided-light windows, each pane is filmed separately and inspected first.

Heat Control Film for Main Line Sunrooms, Pool Houses and Additions

Many Main Line houses have sunrooms, conservatories, family room additions with walls of glass, or pool houses with large sliding doors. These spaces are wonderful in spring and fall and too hot in July. Heat control film on the sunniest panes makes them usable through the summer and protects furniture and plants from UV.

Overhead panes in a conservatory are fair game as long as they are real glass; plastic roof panels in older sunrooms are a different material and are handled case by case. For rooms that are also used in winter, a low-e film that reduces heat loss through the glass is worth considering.

• Heat control film for sunrooms and conservatories
• Film for glass sunroom roofs and skylights
• UV film for libraries, art and antiques
• Low-e film for rooms used year-round

Security and Safety Film for Main Line Homes

Large houses on wooded lots often have glass doors and low windows that are out of sight from the street, such as French doors to a rear terrace or basement windows behind landscaping. Security film strengthens that glass by bonding it to a thick film. If broken, the glass stays in place, which slows forced entry and keeps shards contained.

Safety film is also useful on large glass doors and floor-level windows in homes with children or pets, and on glass near pools where broken glass is a hazard. Neither film makes glass unbreakable, but both reduce the risk when it does break. Pool houses and terraces with large glass doors are common spots.

Storefront and Office Window Film on Lancaster Avenue

Lancaster Avenue is the Main Line's main street, running through Ardmore, Haverford and Bryn Mawr with shops, restaurants, galleries and professional offices. Suburban Square in Ardmore adds more retail. Shops with displays in the window use clear UV film to protect stock, and restaurants use glare film on sunny window tables.

Professional offices, from medical practices to financial advisors, use frosted film for privacy on street-facing rooms, sometimes with the firm's name cut into it. Security film is common on shop glass along busy stretches of the avenue. Suburban Square shops have similar needs on their display windows. Work is scheduled before opening.

Historic Main Line Properties and Window Film

Lower Merion Township has historic districts and designated historic properties with their own review rules for exterior changes. Clear interior film usually does not change a building's appearance, but tinted or reflective film might. If your property is historically designated, check with the township before using anything other than clear film on street-facing windows.

We also look carefully at old glass. Original panes in older Main Line homes can be fragile, and we use clear, low-absorption films on them and advise against film where glass is cracked or loose. Each pane of a divided-light sash is inspected before any film goes on.