Glass that faces the water.
Brighton, Williamstown, Port Melbourne and Albert Park, where the brightest part of the day is the end of it.
Why is the afternoon worse here than it is inland?
Because water reflects more light the lower the sun gets. A street outside a window stops being bright well before sunset. Port Phillip does the opposite: it returns more and more light as the sun drops towards it, so the hardest two hours in a bayside room are the last two, which are also the hours the room is being used.
The glass, before the film.
The worst light is the last light
A west or south-west facing pane over the bay takes a low sun and a bright surface at the same time. It is a glare problem before it is a heat problem, and those are answered by different films, so a film chosen on heat alone can leave the room exactly as hard to sit in.
The view is the reason the house is there
A dark film will fix the glare by taking the bay out of the window. That is not a trade-off worth making here, and it is the thing to settle before anything goes on the glass: how much light the room keeps is a choice made at the quotation, not a side effect discovered afterwards.
Salt air never reaches the film
Film goes on the room side of the glass. Anything applied to the outer face of a bayside window lives in a marine environment; this does not. It is one of the few things about a coastal property that makes the job simpler rather than harder.
Much of it sits in a heritage overlay
Both Brighton and Williamstown have substantial heritage precincts, and the glass in them is often original. Where that is the case the same considerations apply as across the inner east, and the quotation names the film so you can put it to your council or your heritage adviser.
What that changes about the job.
We look at the glass in the afternoon
A morning appointment at a west-facing window tells you very little about the problem you were called about. Where the complaint is late-day glare we would rather see it happening.
Light level is specified, not discovered
The quotation states the film and what it does to the light in the room, so the question of how much of the bay you keep is answered in writing before the work is booked.
- Film is applied to the inside face of the glass you already have.
- The outward view is kept.
- Glare and heat are related problems, and the film that best solves one is not always the film that best solves the other.
Suburbs covered by this pageAlbert Park, Brighton, Port Melbourne and Williamstown.
Tell us about the glass.
Describe the property and the rooms that are hard to use. We confirm what suits the glass before anything is quoted, and the quotation says which film and why.
