Authorized dealer XPEL Window Films
The XPEL architectural line, on your house, with the manufacturer warranty behind it — alongside the Johnson and ASWF films we've been hanging for years.
Home and office window tinting across Los Angeles — Santa Clarita, Westwood, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley. Films rated to reject up to 80% of the sun's energy and 99% of the UV that's bleaching your floors — and a film matched to whether you want it noticed from the curb or not.
Authorized XPEL dealer · Veteran-owned · World Championship competitor
Who's doing the work
I'm Dante Peterson, and I own SoCal Window Tinting. Six years hanging film — cars first, then houses, then hotels and clinics. Veteran-owned, working Los Angeles, the Valleys, the Westside and the Conejo Valley.
That poster is Tinter Battles naming me a featured competitor at the 2026 World Championships in Los Angeles, August 15–16. It will not make your living room one degree cooler. What it means is that the standard my installers are trained and held to got set pane by pane against the best in the country — and it's the same standard on a Tuesday in your kitchen.
I walk your house and scope the job myself. The install is done by installers I trained — I'm on the glass with them on the jobs that call for it, and nothing goes on your windows that I haven't signed off on. At thirty days I'm the one back looking at it with you, and I'm the number you call.
National championship. That's not a car door — it's a pane of flat glass, a clock, and judges who go over your edges with a loupe looking for gaps you can't see from arm's length.
Nobody's timing anybody at your house. The reason it's worth calling a shop run by a competition tinter is that the standard doesn't move when the clock comes off — and it's the standard every installer here is trained to.
Every pane on the elevation that takes sun all day. Old film off, new film on, floor by floor.
Removal is the part nobody photographs. Cured film comes off a building slowly, by hand, without marking the glass underneath it — and if you get it wrong on a hotel at Universal City, everyone staying there watches you get it wrong.
Your great room is not the hard part.
Google reviews on Dante's Custom Detail & Tint, our automotive shop in Ridgecrest. They're for car work, not window-film jobs — SoCal Window Tinting is building its own. Same owner, same standard.
Owned and operated. One point of contact from the walkthrough to the last squeegee pass.
National championship competitor on flat glass, and a featured competitor at the Tinter Battles™ VI World Championships in Los Angeles, August 2026. Same glass as your house, judged with a loupe.
The three problems glass has
Big glass is the best thing about a Southern California house and the most expensive thing to live with. Film fixes the three things it does wrong without touching the one thing it does right.
The room off the west wall becomes unusable from three o'clock on and your AC runs to cover it. Film rejects the infrared before it gets inside, so the room evens out and the system stops fighting.
Up to 80% total solar energy rejected (manufacturer rating)
Hardwood, rugs, art, leather, cabinetry. The sun takes them slowly enough that you don't notice until you move a chair. Film blocks essentially all the UV doing it.
99% UV rejection
Street-facing rooms, neighbors twelve feet away, ground-floor bedrooms. Daytime privacy from outside, full view from inside. Frosted and gradient options where you want it around the clock.
Daytime one-way · frost on request
Recent installs · Johnson, ASWF & more
Real jobs, real glass. Where a job lists a number, it's the manufacturer's published rating for the film installed — measured in a lab on clear glass, not on that house. Your windows will read differently, which is why we check your glass before we quote.
High desert · Interior
A raked top sash — a triangle in a wood frame, with no second chance. Cut on site, wet, on a ladder, to a shape that exists in exactly one house.
La Cañada Flintridge · Interior
That sun patch on the floor is the whole argument. Film doesn't move the light — it strips out what's bleaching the wood underneath it.
Southern California · Interior
Same wall, same second. Left pane bare, right pane filmed. This is one of the highest-rejection films we run, and the view out of it is still open.
Southern California · Interior
Two-story great room. The high windows are the ones cooking the room and the ones nobody else wants to bid. We bring the scaffold.
Los Angeles · Interior + exterior
Inside, the balcony and the palms are right there. Outside, the glass is closed. Same pane, same afternoon. And because it's dual reflective, the door doesn't turn into a mirror of the room once the lights come on.
Southern California · Interior + exterior
The lighter end of the range. From the kitchen the pool looks like it always did. From the deck, the doors read as glass, not as a room.
Southern California · Exterior
Every opening on this face is filmed — sliders, fixed glass, the door. Doing one window is a patch. Doing the elevation is what changes the room.
High desert · Exterior
Curved wood frames, arched top sash, no two panes the same. Every piece cut on site. This is the work that separates a tinter from a guy with a squeegee.
High desert · Exterior
Open lot, no neighbors to hide behind, glass on every face. From outside in daylight the rooms are closed. From inside, nothing changed.
Commercial · Storefront
Not a house — but the same film and the same problem. If you run a building instead of a home, we do those too.
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Where we work
We install residential window film from the coast to the far end of the Santa Clarita Valley. What changes town to town isn't really the sun — it's the glass someone put in front of it, and whether the marine layer shows up to take the edge off in the morning.
Valley heat with nothing in the way of it. Ranch homes with wall-length aluminum sliders that were cheap in 1972 and are a furnace now. The room off the patio is the one nobody sits in after three.
Same sun, bigger houses, more of them on a grade. Two-story glass up near the foothills takes the afternoon straight on with no shade coming to save it.
Foothill customs with hardwood, rugs and art worth more than the windows they're sitting under. Here the fade conversation usually comes before the heat one.
Craftsman and Spanish revival with the original single-pane wood still in it. You're not replacing those windows, and in the landmark districts you couldn't anyway. Film goes on the inside, changes nothing from the street, and comes back off if you ever want it gone.
Valencia is master-planned tracts with two-story glass and no mature trees yet — great rooms that stack heat at the ceiling and never let it go. Canyon Country sits further east with older stock, more ranch homes, and hills that throw the heat back at you until dark.
Hillside glass bought for the view, which means the film isn't allowed to touch the view. Low reflectivity only — nothing that reads as tint from the driveway.
Towers and mid-century homes packed in tight around the campus. High-floor glass with nothing shading it and west-facing units looking straight down the 405 corridor. Film goes on the interior, so the building looks identical from the street and the HOA has nothing to object to.
Canyon lots and rebuilds with walls of south-facing glass over hardwood, rugs and art. The heat is real, but the call usually starts with something that used to be darker than it is now.
The marine layer buys you a morning and then quits. Afternoon sun comes off the water with glare on top of the heat, and the last thing you want is a film that trades the ocean view for a few degrees.
Traditional and hard-modern on the same block, and facades you're not allowed to alter. Interior film changes nothing anyone sees from the curb and comes back off if the next owner wants it gone.
PCH and canyon houses built around floor-to-ceiling ocean glass. Nothing stands between the house and the water, which is the whole point and also the problem — all-day glare, full UV, and salt working on everything.
Far enough inland that the coast never helps. Tract two-stories with west-facing great rooms that load heat all afternoon and hold it well past sundown.
Hillside lots with oaks that shade you until about noon and then step aside. Two-story glass over the 101 takes the rest of the day head on.
Master-planned neighborhoods with big south and west elevations. Newer dual pane keeps the draft out and still lets the room cook — dual pane slows heat transfer, it doesn't stop the sun coming through the glass.
Coastal, and the sun still wins. Sliders pointed at the water, sand throwing light back up at the glass, and fade running on everything inside all summer.
Mid-century single pane in the hills, new construction on the flats. The common thread is glass specified for a view and never once for August.
The film · XPEL, Johnson & ASWF
We're an authorized XPEL dealer, and we also run two other American manufacturers — Johnson Window Films, family-owned in Carson since 1973, and ASWF out of Las Vegas. Almost everything that goes on a house here is dual reflective: it carries its reflectivity on the outside where it's doing the work, and stays quiet on the inside. That's the difference between a window you can still see out of after dark and a mirror of your own living room.
| Film | Visible light | Solar energy rejected | UV rejected | Reflectivity | What it's for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson ScenicView 35 | 38% | 56% | 99% | Dual reflective | Lightest film that still does real work. When the view is the reason you bought the house. |
| Johnson ScenicView 25 | 27% | 67% | 99% | Dual reflective | The middle of the range. Most homes land here. |
| ASWF Daydream 5 | 6% | 80% | 99% | Dual reflective | Privacy and heat in one film. Street-facing and ground-floor glass. |
| Johnson Solar Silver 20 | 19% | 77% | 99% | Mirrored | Maximum rejection. West walls where the number beats the look. |
XPEL film is quoted on request — ask for it by name at the estimate and we'll check your glass against it. The films above are metallized: the metal layer does the heat work, which is why they don't go purple the way cheap all-dye film does. Johnson says ScenicView is guaranteed not to fade or change color and carries a scratch-resistant hardcoat. Warranty is the manufacturer's and depends on the install: Johnson residential interior installs carry a lifetime limited warranty for the original purchaser; commercial interior is 10–12 years and exterior-mounted film 2–5 years. ASWF terms vary by film. You get the written warranty for your film with your invoice.
Sources: Johnson flat glass spec sheet · ASWF Daydream data · Johnson flat glass warranty
How it goes
Film is a wet trade. Slip solution runs off the glass and onto whatever's underneath it, which is why the cloth is down before the film is up and the floor is dry before we leave.
We cut on site, we mask what needs masking, and we haul our own trash. You shouldn't be able to tell we were there except through the window.
Free. We go window to window: orientation, glass type, what's actually bothering you. You get a written price that doesn't move later.
Most homes are a single day. We mask, we cut on site, we clean up. Nothing gets left in your driveway.
Film hazes slightly while moisture leaves, then clears. We come back and look at it with you. Manufacturer warranty on the film — lifetime limited on residential interior installs.
Commercial
A hotel elevation at Universal City. A medical clinic. Retail entries. Same film, same meter, taller ladder.
Commercial glass is the same physics and a completely different job. Access, after-hours windows, occupancy, and a building full of people who need the doors to keep working while you're standing on them.
If you manage a property instead of live in one, it starts the same way it does for a homeowner: tell us which glass is causing the problem and we'll come look at it.
Commercial window tinting: offices, storefronts, clinics and hotels
Common questions
Not the way automotive tint does. Residential film is specified by visible light transmission — a 35% film still lets a third of the light through and reads as a faint grey cast from inside. The films we hang most on homes are dual reflective: they carry the reflectivity outside where it works and stay quiet on the inside, so you're looking out a window after dark instead of at a mirror of your own living room.
Both, and they're separate numbers. Glare is about visible light. Heat is total solar energy rejected, which counts infrared and UV as well — the films on this page are manufacturer-rated from 56% to 80% rejected on clear glass. Glare is what you notice in the first hour. The heat number is what changes the thermostat.
Yes. California's tint law governs vehicles, not houses — there's no state limit on how dark you can go on residential glass. What can apply is an HOA rule or a historic district restriction on exterior appearance, and since film is installed on the interior surface, it generally doesn't change what the building looks like from the street. If you're in a landmark district or under CC&Rs, check your specific rules before ordering.
Thermal stress is a real consideration, not a myth, and it's the reason we meter and identify your glass before quoting instead of after. Manufacturers publish glass compatibility charts for every film, and we match to them. Some window manufacturers do limit or void their seal warranty when aftermarket film is applied — if your windows are still under warranty, tell us at the walkthrough and we'll work around it.
Sputtered metal film on a home holds up for well over a decade in Southern California sun. Dye-based film is what goes purple and bubbles after a few summers, and it isn't in our van. Johnson residential interior installs carry a lifetime limited manufacturer warranty for the original purchaser; commercial and exterior installs carry shorter terms, and we tell you which applies before you buy.
Most homes are a single day. The free estimate comes first — we go window to window and give you a written number that doesn't move later. Film hazes slightly while moisture leaves the adhesive, clears over a few weeks, and we come back at thirty days and look at it with you.
It's priced by the square foot of glass and the film you pick, so the only honest number is one taken at your house. Two things move it more than anything else: how much of your glass is above reach, and whether old film has to come off first. Removal is slow work and it gets quoted separately.
We're an authorized XPEL dealer, and we also run Johnson Window Films out of Carson and ASWF out of Las Vegas. If you want XPEL specifically, ask for it by name at the estimate and we'll check your glass against it.
Free estimate
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(661) 418-9193Send us the rooms and windows giving you trouble. We'll call or text to set a time to come look.
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Tell us the room and the time of day it gets bad. We'll come out, measure it, and tell you what film fixes it — including if the answer is that film won't.
Home / Commercial window tinting
Offices, storefronts, clinics and hotels across Los Angeles, the Valleys and Ventura County. We cut the heat off the sun side, take the glare off the screens, slow the fading on what's in the window, and add privacy where the glass shows too much — without shutting the building down to do it.
What film does on a building
Commercial glass is access, after-hours windows, occupancy, and a building full of people who need the doors to keep working while you're standing on them. Here's what we're usually called for.
The west-facing suite nobody wants, the lobby that cooks at 3pm, the conference room with the blinds permanently down. Solar control film cuts the heat coming through the glass so the HVAC stops fighting one elevation.
Johnson ScenicView 25: SHGC 0.33 vs 0.86 bare glass*
Front desks, open offices, exam rooms, anywhere a monitor faces a window. Film takes the glare down without turning the glass into a wall.
Glare reduction 44%–91% across the ScenicView line*
Retail merchandise, lobby furniture, flooring, signage. UV is a major cause of fading; the films we install block 99% of it.
99% UV rejection
Frosted or reflective film for conference rooms, clinics and ground-floor offices. And removal of failed, purple, bubbling film — slow, by hand, without marking the glass.
Daytime privacy · frost · removal
*Manufacturer ratings, film on 1/8" single-pane clear glass. Your glass will read differently — we identify it before we specify film. Source: Johnson flat glass spec sheet.
Commercial work
The film
You get the manufacturer's spec sheet for the film we propose, so facilities, the owner or the architect can check it. Lower SHGC means less solar heat getting in.
| Film | Visible light | Solar energy rejected | SHGC | Glare reduction | Look |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson ScenicView 35 | 38% | 56% | 0.44 | 57% | Dual reflective — keeps the view |
| Johnson ScenicView 25 | 27% | 67% | 0.33 | 70% | Dual reflective — most offices land here |
| Johnson Solar Silver 20 | 19% | 77% | 0.23 | 79% | Mirrored — maximum rejection |
Commercial warranty is shorter than residential, and we'll say so up front. Johnson's flat glass warranty covers commercial interior installs for 10 or 12 years depending on the film, and exterior-mounted film for 2 or 5 years. XPEL and ASWF film is available and quoted with its own written terms.
Sources: Johnson flat glass spec sheet · Johnson flat glass limited warranty
How a commercial job runs
Free. We walk the problem glass, identify the glass type, and check it against the manufacturer's film-to-glass chart — some glass shouldn't take some films.
Film, square footage, access, removal if any, schedule, and the spec sheet and warranty for the film. One number.
Early mornings, evenings or weekends where the building needs it. Drop cloths down, entries kept open, our trash leaves with us.
Film clears over a few weeks as moisture leaves. We come back to check it, and you get the manufacturer warranty paperwork for the building's records.
Common questions
Film reduces the solar heat coming through the glass — that's what the SHGC numbers above measure. How much that shows up on a bill depends on the building, orientation, how much glass faces the sun, and the HVAC. We won't quote you a savings percentage we can't back up; we'll show you the heat-gain numbers for your film.
Usually not. We work a section at a time, keep entries usable, and schedule noisy or high-traffic areas before or after hours.
Yes. Removal is slow hand work and is quoted separately, because how long it takes depends on how cured and how failed the old film is.
That depends on the film. Dual reflective films read as slightly darker glass from outside; mirrored film reads as mirror. If there's an HOA, landlord or design review, we'll give you samples and spec sheets to take to them first.
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Home window tinting · Los Angeles & Ventura County
For the room that's unusable after 3pm, the floors that are fading, and the windows the neighbors can see into. We come to you, look at your actual glass, and give you a written price.
Tell us the room and the time of day it gets bad. We'll call or text to set a time.
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Our work
Numbers shown are the manufacturer's published rating for the film installed, tested on clear glass — not a measurement from that job.
About reviews: SoCal Window Tinting is the window-film division of Dante's Custom Detail & Tint in Ridgecrest. That shop's 160+ Google reviews are for automotive work — we don't present them as window-film reviews.
How it works
We look at each problem window, identify your glass, and match film to it. You get a written price.
Most homes take one day. Drop cloths down, cut on site, cleaned up before we leave.
Film clears as it cures. We come back to look at it with you. Manufacturer warranty on the film — lifetime limited on residential interior installs.
Before you call
It's priced by the square foot of glass and the film you pick, so the honest number comes after we see the house. Glass above reach and removal of old film are the two things that move it most.
Not like car tint. Our lightest film lets through 38% of visible light and keeps the view; dual reflective films stay quiet on the inside at night.
Thermal stress is real, which is why we identify your glass and check the manufacturer's film-to-glass chart before quoting. If your windows are still under warranty, tell us — some window makers limit it with aftermarket film.
Film goes on the inside and usually doesn't change the look from the street much, but check your CC&Rs. We'll give you samples to take to the board.
Commercial window tinting · Los Angeles & Ventura County
Hot suites, glare on screens, faded merchandise, glass that shows too much, or old film that's failing. We work around your hours and hand you the spec sheet for the film we propose.
Tell us the building and which glass is the problem.
Request a free estimateOpens our estimate form · about a minute · no obligation
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Our work
Numbers shown are the manufacturer's published rating for the film installed, tested on clear glass — not a measurement from that job.
About reviews: SoCal Window Tinting is the window-film division of Dante's Custom Detail & Tint in Ridgecrest. That shop's 160+ Google reviews are for automotive work — we don't present them as window-film reviews.
How it works
We walk the problem glass, identify it, and check film-to-glass compatibility.
Film, square footage, removal if any, schedule, spec sheet and warranty — one number.
Scheduled around occupancy. You get the manufacturer warranty paperwork for the building file.
Before you call
It reduces solar heat through the glass — Johnson ScenicView 25 is rated SHGC 0.33 vs 0.86 for bare clear glass. What that does to a bill depends on the building, so we don't promise a savings percentage.
Usually not. We work in sections, keep entries usable, and do high-traffic areas before or after hours.
Yes — by hand, without marking the glass. Removal is quoted separately.
Tell us in the form. We'll scope each site and quote them together.
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