Yes, they only need an occasional cleaning with mild soap and water. They are also mildew and fade resistant.

Exterior Solar Screens products still allow good airflow.

These products protect against insects and can replace regular insect screening on windows, doors and porches.

Solar Screens are available in a wider range of colors than regular insect screening. From the outside, sun control screening offers a uniform look to windows and doors, providing a more aesthetically pleasing overall look to home and building exteriors than regular insect screening. Outward visibility remains good through exterior sun control.

Solar Screens can provide daytime privacy. Visibility through Solar Screens depends on light location. Lighted interiors allow inward visibility at night, while sunlight during the daytime diminishes inward visibility, offering more privacy.

Glass tinting filters the light along with the UV rays. Solar Screens reduce the volume of light without filtering. As the glass filters sunlight through the tint, it will maintain heat, which dissipates into the house, making Solar Screens more effective than glass tinting for energy savings.

Yes, although windows and doors are kept cleaner with the Solar Screens installed, they are removable just like insect screening for ease in washing screens and window glass.

While UV blockage is 65% to 90%, the Visual Transmittance is 14% to 40% depending on the screening fabric selected. Light through the Solar Screens is not tinted, but is reduced in volume, allowing good light with reduced glare.

All colors provide significant heat reduction when installed on the exterior but dark colors are better at reducing glare and improving outward visibility.

UV blockage depends on the fabric’s weave and openness. In general, the UV blockage percentage will be the reciprocal of the openness factor.