drew, Author at Carolina Solar

June 15, 2013

Residential Window Tinting- Tools of the Trade

Since 1985, Carolina Solar, your authorized 3M Window Film dealer and window tinting specialist in Raleigh, Wilmington, and Myrtle Beach, has been helping residents reduce glare in their homes, prevent fading of furniture, flooring, and accessories, and decrease combat rising energy costs. At a recent BNI meeting, one of Carolina Solar’s owners, Jim Arnesen, was asked to bring in a tool or two of the trade when describing his business to the group of professionals. […]

August 15, 2013

Process for Window Film Installation Ensures Customer Satisfaction

We recently had a customer give us a 5 star review on Google after we completed a window film installation. One of the things that struck us about this particular client review was that he was very happy with the results because of the precise details in the installation process. For example, he was pleased that we were “quick to give a quote” over the phone. Once the appointment was scheduled, he was happy that […]

August 15, 2013

New Area Bank Gets Window Film Treatment

Carolina Solar, your authorized 3M Window Film Dealer and Installer of the Carolina’s, had the opportunity to work with First Bank of Southern Pines. For this installation, we used two types of films– 3M’s NV35 (Night Vision Series) for the dormers and 3M Milano Film on all the interior office doors. Night Vision window films help block the sun’s damaging UV rays, reduce glare and reject up to 71% of the sun’s heat. These darker […]

August 15, 2013

3M Window Films Replace Existing Film for a Beautiful View

Here is a project, where we had to first remove some existing window film before installing 3M PR70. This film is a product in the 3M Prestige Series, and is used for its reflective qualities as seen in the illustration below. As you can see from the project pictures, this space had a tremendous amount of window space–3600 square feet of windows!