The Health Benefits of Window Films
Window Films offer a variety of benefits, whether you’re using window film on your car, at home or for your business. Window Film is a cost effective and non disruptive way to bring a tired old building to life and give you privacy. There are also multiple health benefits that come with using window film on a building or vehicle:
Helps to avoid heat related illness
Applying a Window films to your car, office or residential building helps keep a room or vehicle cool, as window films blocks light out, therefore helping to regulate the temperature of the building or car.
Energy Control Window Film helps to alleviate a hot and stuffy atmosphere, which means there is less reliance on air conditioning units and can save up to 30% on air conditioning costs. Regulating room temperature helps to keep people comfortable and reduces drowsiness. Utilising window films also helps to prevent heat induced illnesses such as heat stroke and hyperthermia.
Reduces Skin Damage
The sun’s ultraviolet rays (UV rays) account for 80.3% of ageing and damage to the skin. Unfortunately, UV rays can cause sunburn as the rays penetrate the skin through car and building windows as glass does not filter out UV rays, and 99% of light emitted from the sun is in the form of light, heat and UV rays.
Safety Window Film filters out 99% of harmful UV rays therefore protecting your skin, reducing skin damage and ageing. Of course, using sun cream will also help to prevent UV damage to the skin, but easily applied, non-intrusive window films will help to limit the effects of environmental skin damage and ageing.
Helps to avoid Broken Glass
Shattered glass can cause punctures, scratches deep cuts and other injuries to the skin. With roughly 250 double glazing installations a week, and glass used for windows being toughened, your windows are not likely to break easily. However, unexpected incidents such as explosions will shatter glass and cause injury. Whilst it is incredibly difficult to prevent the risk of an explosion, using anti-blast window film helps to eliminate the risk of overhead broken glass.
Anti-vandal window film helps to keep you and your property safe from broken glass and intruders. Anti-vandal window film prevents glass windows and doors from being smashed, and if they are damaged, the film will hold the window together.
Helps to protect your eyes
As your eyes on occupy 2% of your whole body surface it is difficult to see how such a small part of your body can be protected by window film. Protective and Anti-Glare window film helps to filter out the sun’s UV rays that can have a detrimental effect on your eyes.
As your eyes are the sole organ system that allows penetration of visible light (they help us to see), they are unable to differentiate between visible light, UV and infrared rays. When your are exposed to UV rays, you run the risk of developing cataracts, macular degeneration, pinguecula, pterygia and much more. UV ray exposure could also lead cancers of the eye including Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) and Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) account for 5-10% of skin cancers.
Utilising window films will help to prevent degradation and cancers of the eye, as well as counteracting the effects of eyestrain and migraines.
Reduces risk of Cancer
Since 2013, there has been 14,509 reported cases of malignant melanoma. There is a direct link between skin cancer and the sun’s UV rays damaging the skin. As mentioned before, glass does not filter out harmful Ultraviolet rays which can penetrate your skin through residential windows and car windows.
Whilst the sun provides you with the vitamins that your body needs, such as Vitamin D, overexposure to the sun’s UV rays can cause skin cancer. Since 1970, Cancer Research has seen a 360% increase in malignant melanoma. To help prevent cancer of the skin, UV Control Window Film filters out 99% of harmful UV ray filters, therefore protecting the skin.
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