Solartite Window Tinting

Window Tinting for Your Home and Office

As the sunburnt nation, we can all appreciate the power and intensity of the sun’s rays. Glazing can act like a magnifying glass and allow the radiant heat from the sun to turn a home or office into a sauna and disturb your thermal comfort. Solartite reduce heat, making the living space more comfortable and functional.

Why Choose Magnetite

Thermal Comfort

Don’t sweat in your home. Solartite can reduce radiant heat through existing glazing, making your home or office more comfortable in summer.

Energy Efficiency

Solartite makes your home or office more comfortable without needing to crank up the air conditioner. This means less energy use and more money in your pocket from savings on energy bills.

Fits Existing Windows

Solartite is fit to your existing windows glazing. The installation is relatively quick and can be completed within a few hours, providing an immediate thermal comfort in your home.

How Solartite Works

Solartite window tinting can only be applied onto the existing window glazing. The window tinting will manage the solar heat gain, reduce glare and minimise radiant heat before it enters the room, keeping the room cool during summer. Solartite, in conjunction with Magnetite retrofit double glazing, will transform your standard, generic glass window into a high performance glazing system. Testing through the Window Energy Rating Scheme (WERS) ensures that our customised solar control window films and film solutions can provide the best results for your home or office.

Solartite offers three ranges of window films to cater for any combination of building style, orientation, privacy and appearance:

Heritage – These films are low sheen with a neutral to grey window tint. Ideal for older, period style or heritage homes, they are not overpowering and maintain the character of your home.
Modern – These films are low sheen, with a neutral to bronze window tint. Ideal for a face lift or renovation, strata buildings or homes with views since they have low internal reflection at night.
Ultra – These solar films are high sheen, high performance films for maximum heat rejection. Ideal for laminated glass and westerly facing windows which take the brunt of the sun’s heat.

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Radiant Heat

Minimise radiant heat before it enters the room

Glare Reduction

Reduce eye strain when watching TV, reading, or working on the computer

Daytime Privacy

Lift the blinds to bring in natural light without losing your privacy

What Our Customers Say

“Great product! Excellent for sound reduction and temperature control and far less expensive than standard double glazing”

Penelope, Northcote VIC

“It is true that we are delighted with our magnetite installation. The noise factor has been significantly reduced. The installation was pain free.”

Irene & Allan Kensington NSW

“The quoting and installation service was very professional. The finished installation looks excellent and is exactly as quoted. Thank you.”

Russell, Redfern NSW

“I just wanted you to know what a happy experience dealing with Magnetite has been. Very efficient and an excellent result.”

Alan, Sydney NSW

“We are very happy with Magnetite which you installed in our bedroom in February. The young men were very professional and they did a very neat job.”

Anne, Greenwich NSW

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Glazing Type	Cooling Stars	Heating Stars	Cool%	Heat%	Uw	SHGC
Single glazed 3mm clear glass*					7.4	0.77
Single glazed 3mm clear glass & 4.5mm Magnetite			35%	59%	2.9	0.67

Glazing Type

Cooling Stars

Heating Stars

Cool%

Heat%

SHGC

Single glazed 3mm clear glass*

7.4

0.77

Single glazed 3mm clear glass &
4.5mm Magnetite

35%

59%

2.9

0.67

Glazing Type	Cool%	Heat%	Uw	SHGC
Single glazed 3mm clear glass*	20%	28%	5.5	0.69
Single glazed 3mm clear glass & 4.5mm Magnetite	37%	61%	2.6	0.66
Single glazed 3mm clear glass with Solartite** and 4.5mm Magnetite	76%	45%	1.8	0.20

Glazing Type

Cooling Stars

Heating Stars

Cool%

Heat%

SHGC

Single glazed 3mm clear glass*

20%

28%

5.5

0.69

Single glazed 3mm clear glass &
4.5mm Magnetite

37%

61%

2.6

0.66

Single glazed 3mm clear glass with
Solartite** and 4.5mm Magnetite

76%

45%

1.8

0.20

Glazing Type	Cooling Stars	Heating Stars	Cool%	Heat%	Uw	SHGC	AI
Double Glazed 3mm clear glass/12mm air gap/3mm clear glass IGU (Insulated Glass Unit)*			40%	55%	3.0	0.61	5.0
Single glazed 3mm clear glass & 4.5mm Magnetite			37%	61%	2.6	0.66	0.5

Glazing Type

Cooling Stars

Heating Stars

Cool%

Heat%

SHGC

Double Glazed 3mm clear glass/12mm air
gap/3mm clear glass IGU (Insulated Glass Unit)*

40%

55%

3.0

0.61

5.0

Single glazed 3mm clear glass &
4.5mm Magnetite

37%

61%

2.6

0.66

0.5

Glazing Type	Cooling Stars	Heating Stars	Cool%	Heat%	Uw	SHGC	AI
Double Glazed 5mm Supertoned glass/6mm air gap/5mm clear glass IGU (Insulated Glass Unit)*			54%	425%	3.30	0.461	5.0
Single glazed 3mm glass Solartite** and 4.5mm Magnetite			73%	38%	2.4	0.19	0.5

Glazing Type

Cooling Stars

Heating Stars

Cool%

Heat%

SHGC

Double Glazed 5mm Supertoned glass/6mm
air gap/5mm clear glass IGU (Insulated Glass Unit)*

54%

425%

3.30

0.461

5.0

Single glazed 3mm glass Solartite**
and 4.5mm Magnetite

73%

38%

2.4

0.19

0.5

Noise Reduction Technical Data and Results

Proven Results

Noise pollution is one the biggest problems faced in the cities today, particularly in a high-density living. Unwanted noise can be responsible for sleep loss and lack of concentration. This can lead to a deterioration of health through increased stress levels, headaches, high blood pressure and loss of hearing.

Noise penetrates windows through leaky seals or vibrations through the window structure. To reduce noise, a window should minimise air infiltration, hold enough weight to limit vibration and allow a large air cavity. This cavity, or air gap, is the key to secondary glazing.

Expert Advice:

CSIRO Research by John Davy shown an air cavity can effectively enhance sound insulation performance. The larger the air cavity the more noise the window system can reduce. Results show a wide air gap of 100-125mm will improve sound insulation by an average of 7dB(A) more than windows with a narrow gap of 8-13mm.

Window or Glass Door Type	Total Glass Thickness (mm)	Air Cavity Thickness (mm)	Sound Insulation (dB)
Single Glaze 3mm	3	0	23
Single Glaze 6mm	6	0	27
Double Glaze Narrow Gap	9-12	8-13	31
Double Glaze Wide Gap	9-12	100-125	38

Window or Glass Door Type

Total Glass Thickness (mm)

Air Cavity Thickness (mm)

Sound Insulation (dB)

Single Glaze 3mm

Single Glaze 6mm

Double Glaze Narrow Gap

9-12

8-13

Double Glaze Wide Gap

9-12

100-125

The human ear is less sensitive to low frequency sound. According to a study released by the CSIRO, the human ear needs a change of 3dB to detect a difference in noise levels and the human ear perceives a change of 10dB as a doubling or halving of the noise level.

If you double the thickness of glass in a window the noise level will decrease by 3dB the least amount possible to make a difference. If the glass is laminated there is no perceived difference in noise reduction.

National Acoustic Laboratory Testing:

Working with the principles of noise transfer, Magnetite® and Soundtite are designed for high performance, which is achieved by combining air tight seals with the ability to maximize an air cavity and the flexibility to vary glazing thickness to suit. Magnetite® is excellent at reducing general noise such as busy roads, commuter trains and noisy neighbours. Whereas, Soundtite works well to combat low frequencies noise such as garbage truck, freight trains or airplane during take-off and landing.

Test Code	Material Tested	Rw*	Improvement
ATF 707 (test window)	Aluminium sliding window, 3mm float glass with mohair seals	23	N/A
ATF 709	Test window, 100mm air gap and Magnetite System (4.5mm acrylic panel)	35	52%
ATF 1507	Test window, 100mm air gap and Magnetite System (10.0mm acrylic panel)	39	70%
ATF 817	Test window, 100mm air gap and Soundtite (6.38mm laminated glass)	41	78%

Test Code

Material Tested

Rw*

Improvement

ATF 707 (test window)

Aluminium sliding window, 3mm float glass with mohair seals

N/A

ATF 709

Test window, 100mm air gap and Magnetite System (4.5mm acrylic panel)

52%

ATF 1507

Test window, 100mm air gap and Magnetite System (10.0mm acrylic panel)

70%

ATF 817

Test window, 100mm air gap and Soundtite (6.38mm laminated glass)

78%

*The Weighted Sound Reduction Index (Rw) is a measure for sound insulation performance of a single building element such as windows. The higher the Rw rating, the better the sound insulation.

Solartite Window Tinting

Up to 70% Better Thermal Comfort

Window Tinting for Your Home and Office

Why Choose Magnetite

Thermal Comfort

Energy Efficiency

Fits Existing Windows

How Solartite Works

Product Video

Product Images

Product Projects

How Solartite Solves Your Problems?

Radiant Heat

Glare Reduction

Daytime Privacy

What Our Customers Say

Contact Us For A Free Measure & Quote!

Submit your enquiry and we will get back to you within 1 business day.

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