Solar Control
Built for the east-facing lake wall. Takes the punch out of morning glare and cuts the heat load without darkening the room or putting a mirror on the outside of a house you want to look normal from the road.
Learn MoreInnisfil sits on the west shore of Lake Simcoe, which means the lakefront homes here face east. That single fact shapes most of what we get called about. Everyone plans for afternoon sun. Almost nobody plans for the way early light comes off flat water in June, low and hard, straight through a wall of glass that was built to frame the view. By seven in the morning the room is unusable and the only tool most people have is a blind, which trades the problem for the view they paid a premium to own.
Away from the water the issue flips. Alcona has grown fast, and the newer streets were laid out with narrow side yards and generous window packages. That combination puts your second storey glass roughly level with your neighbour's second storey glass, sometimes twenty feet apart. Nobody is being nosy. The geometry just does not leave anywhere else to look. The same goes for the newer pockets around Lefroy and the builds going in near Innisfil Beach Road.
Because so much of the housing stock here is recent, we deal with a lot of Low-E glass and a lot of homeowners who are understandably nervous about anyone touching windows that are still under builder warranty. That caution is correct. It is also the reason we test compatibility before we quote and leave the edges of every pane unsealed, so the sealed unit keeps breathing and the warranty keeps standing.
The switchable installation photographed on our home page is an Innisfil job. Same sliding door, once clear and once private, shot on the same afternoon.
