This window-filled living space is designed to enjoy the surrounding wooded scenery, but so much glass can also bring unwanted heat, glare, and UV exposure into the home. Solar View Mylar Shades provide effective solar protection while maintaining daytime visibility to the outdoors.
With the shades lowered, homeowners can continue enjoying the natural view while reducing harsh sunlight and creating a more comfortable living environment. The retractable design also lets you raise or lower each shade as sunlight conditions change throughout the day.
Solar View Mylar Shades offer:
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Solar View Mylar Shades offer:
Large windows are perfect for enjoying a beautiful desert landscape, but intense sunlight can create excessive heat and glare inside the home. In rooms such as kitchens, where large expanses of glass receive direct sunlight, controlling that heat and glare can make the space much more comfortable throughout the day.
Solar View Mylar Shades provide effective solar control while allowing homeowners to continue enjoying their outdoor view. When lowered, the shades help reflect solar heat, dramatically reduce glare, and block up to 99% of harmful UV rays that can contribute to fading of flooring, cabinetry, furniture, and other interior finishes.
Because Solar View Mylar Shades are retractable, they can be raised or lowered as sunlight conditions change throughout the day. This provides flexible protection without permanently covering the windows or sacrificing the beautiful desert view.
Solar View Mylar Shades provide a practical, professional solar-control solution. Installed across the dealership’s large exterior windows, the Mylar shades help reduce intense sunlight, solar heat, and glare while maintaining daytime visibility to the outdoors.
The reflective Mylar material is especially effective for automotive dealerships, where expansive glass windows can allow significant heat and glare into showrooms, sales offices, and customer areas. By controlling solar heat gain and reducing harsh reflections on computer screens and work surfaces, the shades help create a more comfortable environment for employees and customers.
Because Solar View Mylar Shades are retractable, they can be raised or lowered as sunlight conditions change throughout the day, providing flexible solar control without permanently covering the dealership’s windows.
Solar View Mylar Shades offer:
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Reduce Solar Heat and Glare Without Blocking Your View
Convenience stores and gas stations often have large storefront windows that let in intense sunlight, creating excessive heat and glare for employees and customers.
Solar View Mylar Shades provide effective sun protection while maintaining clear outward visibility during daylight hours. Employees can continue to see fuel pumps, parking areas, store entrances, and approaching customers even when the shades are lowered.
Unlike permanent window tint, our retractable Mylar Shades can be lowered when solar protection is needed and raised when it isn’t.
Benefits for Convenience Stores:
Reduces solar heat by up to 80%
Reduces glare by more than 90%
Blocks up to 99% of harmful UV rays
Maintains outward visibility during daylight hours
Helps protect merchandise and interior furnishings from sun damage
Custom-manufactured to fit storefront and drive-up windows
Solar View Mylar Shades are an ideal solution for convenience stores, gas stations, drive-up windows, and retail storefronts where solar protection and outside visibility are equally important.
This collection belonged to an aviator with a passion for airplanes and aviation history. Over the years, he accumulated an extensive library of books, manuals, diagrams, charts, and other aviation materials that he wanted to preserve and protect.
One of his biggest concerns was dust collecting on his books and diagrams. To help protect the collection while keeping everything visible, he ordered Solar View Neutral Mylar. The clear protective Mylar creates a barrier against dust without hiding the materials behind it.
This is a unique example of how Solar View Mylar can be used for more than windows. From treasured books and technical diagrams to collections and important documents, Mylar can provide a simple protective barrier while allowing the items behind it to remain visible.
A fabric-wrapped fascia conceals the roller tube and mounting hardware, creating a clean, finished appearance. The fascia is wrapped in coordinating fabric to match your shade for a seamless, professional look. It is recommended for outside-mounted shades or any installation where the roller is visible.
Solar View – Roll Shade Measurement Guidelines
All measurements must be recorded in inches, rounded down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
Round down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
Examples:
Tools Needed
Included Hardware
Mollies/toggles for plaster, drywall, or concrete are not included.
Bracket Notes:
Faber/Benthin universal brackets may be mounted left or right, inside, outside, or on the ceiling. Brackets must be installed perfectly level for proper shade operation.
Standard bracket length: 1 3/8″. Extended length: 2 3/8″.
Inside Measurement (IM) Guidelines
Inside Measurement refers to ordering a shade to be installed inside the window casement. When you provide an IM width, you are giving the exact space within the opening.
The factory will then take precise deductions to ensure the shade, brackets, and rotating control mechanism fit properly.
Round down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
Examples:
Because of these required deductions:
IM shades will ALWAYS have a gap of up to 5/8” on both sides
(± 1/8” depending on tolerances)
This gap is necessary so the shade can raise, lower, and rotate freely.
If you order a shade at:
The shade will be manufactured to fit within that 70” space.
However, due to bracket/mechanism allowances:
This remaining space is the functional “gap” required for operation.
When IM Gaps Are Not Acceptable
If the side gap is visually unacceptable or you need more complete coverage:
Consider an Outside Bracket Mount (OB)
Mounting the shade on the wall, trim, or mullion allows you to add width beyond the window opening and cover more area.
When IM Gaps Are Not Acceptable
If the side gap is visually unacceptable or you need more complete coverage:
Consider an Outside Bracket Mount (OB)
Mounting the shade on the wall, trim, or mullion allows you to add width beyond the window opening and cover more area
Important Ordering Rules
Outside Measurement (OM / OB) Guidelines
Outside Measurements—also referred to as Outside Bracket (OB) measurements—are used when mounting the shade outside the window casement. This includes mounting on:
When you provide an OM/OB measurement, you are giving the exact dimensions you want the shade to cover, based on where the brackets will be installed.
OB measurements are manufactured with NO factory deductions.
The shade will be made exactly to the width and height you order.
This gives you complete control over the final coverage area.
For Outside Mount installations, you can eliminate or reduce light gaps by:
Simply adding extra width to your bracket mounting measurement.
Because the shade sits outside the opening, you can widen the shade beyond the window frame to improve privacy and light control.
Golden Rule for OB Measurements
Always measure to and from the exact points where the brackets will be installed.
This ensures:
