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Experience and Integrity are two words that best describe how The Solar Shade Screen Company will approach your Solar Screening project. With combined experiences exceeding 30 years, your experienced team from Solar Shade Screen, using factory trained experts to perform the work on your home, will provide the most energy efficient solar screen in America. We aim to exceed expectations leaving you with a pleasant experience.

What you are probably not aware of is the fact that most solar screening companies are not properly addressing the manner in which solar screens are designed to function at the highest energy efficiency. Because The Solar Shade Company is a professional organization that understands the concepts of solar heat gain through your windows, nothing is left to chance when you take their recommendations, Allow us to give you an example of a very serious problem with 99% of the so called solar screen companies who are improperly applying solar screening to your home.

Solar screens can provide up to 90% blockage of the sun's heat. However, most companies are installing in the existing screen tracks which were designed for an insect screen. Solar Screen fabrics are designed to reflect and absorb heat before it reaches the window glass. The optimum distance between solar screen cloth and the window glass is 3/4" - 1" so that the heat can be dissipated back into the atmosphere. Most companies install their solar screens in the existing screen track which puts the solar screen cloth within 1/8" of the glass and in many cases actually touching the glass. This is a huge problem because the solar screen cloth is now transmitting the heat it has absorbed directly into the glass and into your home. It is my guess that nobody ever told you about that because most of the companies out there are not professionals. They are hard working folks but they are not experienced in the engineering aspect of solar screening products. Thus, other companies use inferior framing and hardware to fabricate and install their product with which leaves you, the homeowner, with a 30% - 40% less efficient product on your windows.

The people at The Solar Shade Screen Company have been pointing this out to homeowners and commercial building owners since the mid 1970s. Through their experience they have developed installation systems that solve this specific problem as well as a host of other issues you can learn about on their website at http://solarshadescreen.com Most importantly, when someone from Solar Shade Screen comes out, they take the time to explain what their product does and how it works. You will not get a young kid in shorts and T-shirt who counts windows, writes a proposal, sticks it in an envelope, and leaves it on your front porch because they have a quota of hitting 40 to 50 houses per day. Unfortunately, this is what a majority of the industry is. But you won't receive that kind of treatment from The Solar Shade Screen Company. They are professional, courteous, and informative.

We highly recommend these folks and we get no compensation for recommending them other than an occasional referral in our area. They are that good and we are happy to suggest our customers call them for any solar screen or retractable shade or awning. That's integrity you can count on from Associated!