Shattering the glass mindset: Peace of mind at a minimum cost

MANILA, Philippines - Despite advances in materials technology and the development of transparent plastics such as polycarbonate, glass remains virtually the universal material for home and building windows and vehicle windshields.  But even with dramatic improvements in the manufacture of glass, particularly in the way in which it is tempered, its main drawback remains:  it still brittle, and when it breaks, it can cause injuries. 

To address this problem, there are a number of solutions, arguably the most readily available and easy to install or deploy are safety tints.

Yet, the scientific and engineering communities have not found a viable solution to the biggest problem with glass:  it has no tensile strength, it does not bend, and if you try to bend it, it breaks.  To offset this drawback, engineers and scientists have found ways to  make glass harder and harder, it is these advances in the tempering and manufacture of glass that have allowed engineers and architects to design and build the ultra-modern skyscrapers we see today that have floor-to-ceiling windows. 

As strong as today’s industrial glass panes are, they are still glass, and given extreme enough conditions such as strong earthquakes, they can still break and shatter, and because glass is hard and heavy, the resulting debris can be even more dangerous.

Another drawback of industrial glass is that it is quite expensive, which is why most people who build houses still opt for more ordinary glass, which is more affordable but not as strong.  Whether you use ultra-strong industrial glass, or ordinary glass for house windows, you can improve the margin of safety dramatically with safety films. 

High quality safety films when properly installed actually improve the overall strength of any glass pane, more than that though, if and when glass does break or shatter, safety films keep the fragments together and stop them from causing injuries or damage to anything else.

Protection from injuries is just one way that safety and security films deliver peace of mind.  Properly installed and cured premium safety films also serve as a very effective deterrent for break-ins and burglaries.  Burglars who are brazen enough to break a window to gain entry to an establishment they are trying to rob, bank heavily on their speed, they also try to make as little noise as possible when breaking windows.  Safety film coated windows require far more time and effort to get into, and breaking through them is necessarily a noisy activity.  These factors are often more than enough reason to discourage or abort any attempt to get in through a safety film protected window.

By far the most affordable premium safety films on the market are Galaxy safety films.  Manufactured in the US, Galaxy films are of unquestionable quality, easily at par with the best known brands available, if not even better.  If you’d like the peace of mind of knowing that your home or vehicle is as safe as it can be ask about Galaxy films, call 635-9999 loc 197, and be surprised at just how little it costs to give you that peace of mind.