Tinting from laminated windows

We have windows with a slight tint in one of our rooms to reduce glare/UV rays. You get used to it and it does not bother us. But when you go into a room with the non-tinted windows it is very noticeable.

Keith Burkhardt
The Burkhardt Group

"We have windows with a slight tint in one of our rooms to reduce glare/UV rays. You get used to it and it does not bother us. But when you go into a room with the non-tinted windows it is very noticeable."

Ditto.

Mine is barely noticeable, but when it becomes really noticeable is when you open the windows (they're standard double-hung), and the one sash covers the other sash and both tinted panes together REALLY make a contrast next to the open screen.

Hi Keith and Matt, thanks for sharing. Matt, is yours tinted or laminated? If it's the latter, does it really cut down on the noise?

have you looked into triple pane windows with foam spacers and the like?

i lived in a 1960s hirise that had double pane windows that faced 8 lanes of traffic. the noise was significant. i replaced the windows with new double pane windows that had more felt, rubber, etc and the noise was cut significantly. i'd suspect that using the triple name with the foam spacers and foam filled frames could eliminate most noise and save a fortune rather than going with CityQuiet or the other company that sells almost exclusively to Manhattanites and rips them off.

Hi ab,
I'm not doing the CitiQuiet thing -- they install interior windows, which is incompatible with panoramic picture windows I'd like to have. Instead, I'm going with Skyline and getting double-pane tilt-and-turn picture windows. The decision I'm facing is whether one or both panes would be laminated (instead of monolithic glass, there would be a layer of plastic "sandwiched" between two thinner layers of glass). Laminated glass reduces noise, but makes the window slightly darker-- I have a 12x12" double-laminated sample and it's easily noticeable side-by-side with my old windows. Single-laminated should be half as dark. I really wish I had a full-size "sample" to evaluate, though.

Ultimately, I'm hoping that just like you, I'll see a sufficiently big difference from just having better insulation and eliminating window air conditioners that I'd be ok with just single lamination.