ABC Sun Control’s Solar Window Tinting Films offer some of the best ways to go green with solar energy conservation ratings as high as 80% for heat and glare reduction, with a UV reduction rate of 99.9%. The energy reducing efficiency of our solar films are unmatched for building energy and home energy reduction.

Solar Energy Window Films
Our Solar Window Tinting Films provide green energy by reducing operating costs through a sustainable glass upgrade. Our Window tint lowers your carbon foot print and energy costs by reducing the shading coefficient, emissivity and solar heat gain coefficient of your building's glazing. Improving your building envelope performance, energy management and energy conservation can all be attained through the application of ABC Sun Control Energy Saver Window Films.
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LEED Credits EB
Architectural Films and LEED Certification
Window films have been used for many years, primarily for their ability to reduce solar heat gain and save energy. With the advent of green building and sustainable development standards, window films can now play an important part in green building certification, such as LEED for Existing Buildings.

• LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
• LEED EB – LEED for Existing Buildings

Window films can assist with obtaining up to 7 LEED Certification Points in the following areas:
• Light Pollution Reduction (1 pt)
• Optimizing Energy Performance (1-3 pts)
• Improving Thermal Comfort (1 pt)
• Providing Daylighting and Views (1-2 pts)
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3M Dusted & Frosted Crystal Films
When combined with computer cutting technology, frosted films can be quickly and simply cut to reproduce complex designs and logos or even straightforward lettering either individually or for mass production. 3M’s frosted films are suitable for internal and external applications to glass, acrylic, and polycarbonate surfaces. Frosted films provide a fast, efficient and economical alternative to traditional glass etching or sandblasting.
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3M Fasara Films
Fasara films, made of thin, durable polyester with a decorative matte surface, are perfect for privacy, decorative and architectural applications. Intended for use on interior glass and the inside surface of exterior windows, Fasara films can easily be used to create a custom solution for any corporate, retail or residential environment.
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Decorative Window Films
Decorative Window Films are the perfect application for Conference Rooms, Lobbies, Retail Environments, Residential Settings, Private Offices, Glass Partitions, and wherever there is a need for Decorative Privacy.
Our Decorative Window Films are available in multitudes of different patterns and shades and are easily removed and replaced to update the appearance at a later time. Now any flat glass surface can be turned into a work of art, be it an office, restaurant, den, bathroom or child's room. SOLYX ® Films diffuse light without appreciably cutting down the ambient light. As a result, any existing window can be converted to privacy glass in a multitude of attractive patterns.
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Safety & Security Films
To help reduce your chances of loss and add to your peace of mind, ABC Sun Control has a new dimension of safety and security window films. The unique technology combines multiple, micro-thin layers of film to create a stronger, more impenetrable safety and security film for unmatched levels of performance. These new safety and security films create a tough, durable, tear and penetration-resistant shield that bonds to the inside of your windows for protection. The film holds the glass together to dramatically reduce the chance of glass shards from falling or flying out - even under direct forces from winds or impacts from flying objects or heavy devices used for breaking and entering. Additionally the application of our safety film can upgrade annealed glass to meet ansi 97.1 safety standard, annealed glass to tempered glass.
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Anti-Graffiti Films
ABC anti-graffiti films provide a sacrificial clear skin that offers an inexpensive solution to the costly problem of replacing vandalized storefront glass and public bathroom mirrors susceptible to tagging and graffiti. It has proved especially valuable in downtown areas where people congregate for bus stops, etc. Sound Transit has utilized our graffiti films on the Light Rail system to protect glass and stainless steel.
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Opaque and Blackout Films
ABC opaque films provide privacy, as well as a great solution to problem areas in commercial settings where unsightly dividers, shelves and the back side of framed walls can be seamlessly covered over giving a uniform look to any building.
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Signal Defense Security Films
RF and IR signals leakage can be blocked by deploying LLumar Signal Defense SD 10000 Security Film on windows and glass portions of the building, offering upwards of 35 dB attenuation to wireless signals. If wireless signals are not accessible to others, then miscues with respect to LAN encryption, authentication, VPN, and firewall rules can still be protected until they are corrected.
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Window Film Warranties
All of our window film installations are backed by commercial and residential warranties.
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Storefront Graphics
ABC Sun Control specializes in storefront graphics on glass. Using 3M Vinyl, our graphics department can create the perfect look for your storefront, conference room, or company vehicles.
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Solar Shades
Solar Shades offer performance and protection benefits combined with the opportunity to conserve on energy costs- all while preserving a view of the outside.
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From Wikipedia:

The land around Lake Washington to the east of Seattle was first settled by Native Americans. English settlers arrived in the late 1860s, when the McGregor and Popham families built homesteads in what is now the Houghton neighborhood. Four miles to the north people also settled near what is now called Juanita Bay, a favored campsite of the Natives because a wild potato, "wapatos", thrived there. The Curtis family arrived in the area in the 1870s, followed by the French family in 1872. The Forbes family homesteaded what is now Juanita Beach Park in 1876, and settled on Rose Hill in 1877. Gradually, additional people settled in the area, and by the end of the 1880s, a small number of logging, farming and boat-building communities were established.

In 1886, Peter Kirk, a British-born enterprising businessman seeking to expand the family’s Moss Bay steel production company, moved to Washington after hearing that iron deposits had been discovered in the Cascade mountain range. Other necessary components such as limestone, needed in steel smelting, were readily available in the area. Further yet, a small number of coalmines (a required fuel source for steel mills) had recently been established nearby in Newcastle and train lines were already under construction. Plans were also underway to build the Lake Washington Ship Canal.

Kirk realized that if a town were built near the water it would be a virtual freshwater port to the sea, as well as help support any prospective mill. At the time, however, Kirk was not a U.S. citizen and could not purchase any land. Fortunately, Leigh S.J. Hunt, then owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, offered to partner with Kirk and buy the necessary real estate.

Under their new venture, the Kirkland Land and Development Company, Kirk and Hunt purchased thousands of acres of land in what is now Kirkland’s downtown in July 1888. Kirk and his associates started the construction of a new steel mill soon after, named Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works. Thus founding the city of Kirkland in 1888, officially one of the earliest on the Eastside at the time, Kirk’s vision of a "Pittsburgh of the West" was beginning to take form.

However, the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad, which had recently been purchased by Tacoma-based Northern Pacific, had now refused to construct a rail line to the lake. This would, after all, have a negative impact on Tacoma, which was furiously competing with Seattle as the dominant Puget Sound seaport. The ensuing financial issues and numerous obstacles were also taking a toll on Kirk, who was running out of investors. Hunt was also in debt from the purchase of land.

Nevertheless, the plans continued and the steel mill was eventually completed in late 1892 on Rose Hill (a full two miles from the lake's shore). Unfortunately, before it would ever produce any steel, financial issues arose and due to the Panic of 1893 the mill subsequently closed without ever producing any steel. In spite of everything, Kirk was determined not to give up on his namesake town, and Kirkland was finally incorporated in 1905 with a population of approximately 532.

In 1900 the Curtis family made a living operating a ferry-construction business on Lake Washington. Along with Captain John Anderson, the Curtises were among the first to run ferries in the area. Leschi, first operated on December 27, 1913, was the original wooden ferry to transport automobiles and people between the Eastside and Madison Park until her retirement in 1950. The ferry operations ran nearly continuously for 18 hours each day. The construction of the first Lake Washington floating bridge in 1940, however, made ferry service unprofitable and eventually led to its cancellation. Subsequent years saw wool milling and warship building become the major industries.

The first woolen mill in the state of Washington was built in Kirkland in 1892. The mill was the primary supplier of wool products for the Alaska Gold Rush prospectors and for the U.S. military during World War I.[citation needed] By 1917, after the completion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the construction of ocean-going vessels had become a major business. By 1940, the thriving Lake Washington Shipyard had constructed more than 25 warships during World War II for the U.S. Navy, on what is now Carillon Point.