Counter Winter Cold Convection

Not all seasons are created equal, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be thinking about home window tinting in the fall and winter. Yeah, yeah … I know what you are thinking. adding window films to you home in the winter? Isn’t that a summertime thing?

Sure it is … but it is also a wintertime thing. In the summer, the reasons are obvious, UV protection for your home’s interior and a cooler interior climate because the hottest rays of the sun are being dampened by the window tinting. But the benefits of fall and winter are a little less apparent to the laymen.

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Why Do Home Window Tinting in the Winter?

Because the opposite is true of what happens during the warmer months; in the summer, you are trying to reduce conduction. In other words, the heat transferring through the window’s glass and frame into the house. In the winter, you want to limit convection. What happens is the heat inside of your home rushes toward the cooler areas in the house (normally the window surfaces) and tries to replace the cooler, falling air with the warm air. If you feel that cool draft happening, even though the heater is cranking, this is what that is.

Scienceclarified.com explains it as, “In conduction the heat is transferred from one molecule to another, whereas in convection the heated fluid itself is actually moving. As it does, it removes or displaces cold air in its path. The flow of heated fluid in this situation is called a convection current.”

Simply put. The heat in your house becomes uneven because it is constantly moving away from the central areas and trying to warm up those cold windows. Window tinting can actually help with this. There are insulated solar window films that are virtually transparent (as well as tinted), that can save you up to 92% on your winter heating bills. Not to mention they block 99% of the harmful UV rays that do damage in the summer.

How It Works

The outside cold doesn’t transfer to the inside of the glass pain nearly as easily, so the heat that you already have in your home is no longer rushing around towards the different windows to try and replace the cold air with warm air, creating drafts and getting neutralized in the process.

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