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Kepler K-Shield is an 8 mil film applied to the inside face of your glass. It does not make glass unbreakable. What it is built to do is hold the pieces together when the glass does break, so a failed pane stays as a sheet in its frame instead of coming down into the room.

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On most commercial frontages the glass is the least solid part of the building, and it is what an intruder meets first. K-Shield is bonded to the inside face so that a broken pane holds together rather than clearing the frame. What that buys is time and noise, not certainty: the glass, the frame and any edge attachment all shape how a particular opening behaves.

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What Film Adds to an Alarm System

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An alarm tells you a break-in is happening. Film works on the glass itself, so the pane an intruder strikes stays in one piece for longer. It is a layer in your security rather than a replacement for the rest of it.

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K-Shield goes on the inside of the glass, so nothing about the outside of the building changes and no pane is replaced. Kepler publishes it as an 8 mil safety and security film designed to help hold shattered glass together while adding UV protection, and backs it with a 10-year limited product warranty against manufacturing defects. Ask your dealer to look at the glass, the frame and whether an edge attachment belongs in the specification before anything is ordered.

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K-Shield is fitted to the inside face of the glass, in commercial buildings and in homes. Its thickness and its adhesive are what let it take the energy of an impact and spread it across the pane, rather than letting the pane come out of its frame. It is the same 8 mil film in both settings.

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K-Shield is an 8 mil film bonded to the inside face of your glass. Its thickness and adhesive spread the energy of an impact across the pane instead of letting the glass clear the frame.

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K-Shield: Kepler's 8 Mil Safety and Security Film

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Kepler publishes K-Shield as an 8 mil safety and security film designed to help hold shattered glass together while adding UV protection. That is a different job from a tinting film, which is chosen for the light and the heat it manages; K-Shield is chosen for what the glass does at the moment it fails. Kepler backs it with a 10-year limited, non-transferable product warranty against peeling, post-cure bubbling, rippling, cracking, adhesive failure, delamination and abnormal discoloration caused by a manufacturing defect.

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Obtain top-notch Safety & Security window film and expert service by visiting an independent local tinter in Washington. Rely on our Washington locations for superior security and safety window film, protecting your commercial building against potential risks.

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Security film is one part of Kepler's architectural range. Alongside K-Shield, Kepler publishes Cosmic, Chromosphere, Ecliptic and Polaris in a set of shades, with Aurora in a frosted finish and Orbit in blackout. Those films answer a different question from K-Shield, which is about what the glass does at the moment it breaks, so it is normal to look at both on the same building.

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A sacrificial layer for the outside face of the glass: when it is etched or painted, the film is replaced rather than the pane.

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Tell us the building and the glazing you want covered, and the online pricing gives you a figure to work from before you speak to a dealer. From here you can also reach an independent local tinter or look through the rest of the film range.

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Every building below has the same weak point: a pane of glass between what is outside and what is inside. K-Shield does not change how hard that glass is to break. It changes what the glass does once broken, holding the fragments in the film rather than releasing them into the room or leaving an open frame behind. That one behaviour is why the same film turns up in settings as different as a school corridor and a jeweller's window.

Schools are mostly glass at ground level: entrance screens, corridor windows, classroom doors. Applied to the inside face, K-Shield keeps a broken pane held in its own film rather than opening a gap - the difference between glass that is broken and an opening someone can step through. It is not a barrier and it does not replace the rest of a site's security. Any school specification should start with what the existing glazing actually is.

A smash-and-grab depends on the glass clearing quickly. With K-Shield bonded to the inside face, the pane tends to hold together under the first blows, and both the time and the noise go up. That is the honest description of what film does: it makes the glass a worse route in, not an impossible one. Kepler publishes no forced-entry, ballistic or blast rating for K-Shield, so treat it as one layer among several rather than the answer on its own.

The original reason for safety film has nothing to do with intruders. When a pane breaks by accident, the danger is the fragments. K-Shield is published as an 8 mil film designed to help hold shattered glass together, so a failed pane is far more likely to stay as one sheet in the frame than to come down as edges. Whether a particular opening then holds depends on the glass and the frame it sits in, which is the first thing to establish.

There is no single answer for every window. What is already in the frame - the glass construction, the frame itself, the edge detail - decides what a security film specification should say, and whether an attachment around the perimeter belongs in it. Identify that before anything is ordered. It is the first question a dealer should be asking you, and the answers further down this page go into each glass type in turn.

A shop front is a large single pane at pavement level, usually with the stock visible through it. K-Shield on the inside face means a struck pane is more likely to hold together in the frame, which costs an intruder time in full view of the street. It also means an accidental break stays as a sheet held in the film rather than glass across the doorway. What it cannot do is stop a determined entry, and Kepler makes no such claim for it.

Jewellers, watch dealers and electronics retailers put high value directly behind glass, often in a display facing the street overnight. K-Shield does not make that glass unbreakable. What it does is keep the pane holding together under impact, so a quick reach through a broken display becomes a much slower job.

It belongs alongside the rest of the fit-out rather than in place of it - the frame and the fixing decide as much as the film does.

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A warehouse or distribution unit is usually a small glazed office frontage attached to a very large amount of stock. The glass is the soft part of an otherwise solid building, and it is the part most easily overlooked. K-Shield on the inside face keeps a broken pane in its frame for longer, which counts for most where nobody is on site overnight. What it delivers still depends on the glass and the frame it goes on, so the glazing has to be identified before the specification is written.

Kepler publishes K-Shield with a 10-year limited product warranty against manufacturing defects; ask your dealer to confirm the terms in writing.

Office buildings are built out of glass: full-height curtain walling, glazed entrances, internal partitions. That is a great deal of area where a failure sends fragments into a space full of people. Applied inside, K-Shield holds a broken pane together, which is the whole point of a safety film in an occupied building. It is worth being clear about what that is and is not. Kepler publishes K-Shield as an 8 mil film designed to help hold shattered glass together while adding UV protection, and publishes no forced-entry, blast or storm rating for it. Any requirement beyond that has to be specified and evidenced against the actual assembly.

Public buildings carry two problems at once: a lot of publicly accessible glass, and staff working directly behind it. K-Shield on the inside face means a broken pane holds together rather than opening, which speaks to the fragments and the gap at the same time. Nothing about the outside of the building changes and no glass is replaced. Where a specific threat level is part of the brief, it has to be specified against a tested assembly rather than against a film thickness.

For the outside face of the glass, see our anti-graffiti film.

The same film works at home. Patio doors, ground-floor windows and glazed side doors are the usual candidates, and the reasoning is what it is on a shop front: a broken pane held in its film is a slower, noisier way in than a pane that drops out of the frame. It is also the safety argument, since glass held together is glass that is not on the floor. Worth knowing what your existing glazing is before anything is quoted.

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Safety and security film questions, answered.

It is a clear film bonded to the inside face of a window or a glazed door. Kepler's is K-Shield, published as an 8 mil safety and security film designed to help hold shattered glass together while adding UV protection. A tinting film is a thinner product chosen for the light and the heat it manages; a security film is thicker and is built to keep the pieces attached to each other and to the pane when the glass breaks. It does not make the glass harder to break, and Kepler publishes no forced-entry rating for it.

For the outside face of the glass, look at our anti-graffiti film.

It changes what happens after the glass breaks, not before. K-Shield is bonded to the inside face, so when a pane is struck the fragments stay attached to the film and the film stays attached to the pane. A broken window becomes a sheet still roughly in place rather than a hole, and getting through it takes more blows, more time and more noise. That is the whole of the mechanism. It is not a barrier, Kepler publishes no forced-entry, ballistic or blast rating for it, and how a given opening behaves depends as much on the frame and the edge detail as on the film itself. Anyone quoting a specific resistance figure should be quoting a tested assembly rather than a film thickness.

Wait until your dealer tells you the film has cured, then clean the inside face with a soft microfibre cloth and a mild, ammonia-free cleaner. Nothing abrasive, and nothing with a blade. That is the whole routine - a security film asks no more of you than the window did before it.

Kepler's 10-year product warranty covers manufacturing defects rather than damage from cleaning, so the cloth matters.

Tempered glass is the case where the edge detail comes up first. Ask your dealer whether the openings you are quoting are tempered, and whether an attachment around the perimeter belongs in the specification, because that decision is made on the assembly rather than on the film. K-Shield is the same 8 mil film whatever the glass; how a tempered opening then performs is a question about that particular assembly.

Not by thickness alone. What matters is the glass it is going on, the frame holding that glass, and whether an edge attachment forms part of the specification, because the three behave as one system. Kepler's K-Shield is an 8 mil film that also adds UV protection, but a thickness figure on its own establishes nothing about how a particular opening will perform. Ask for the specification to be written against your actual glazing rather than against a product sheet.

You can look through the Kepler film ranges on our Kepler Experience page for detailed information.

For the outside face of the glass, look instead at our anti-graffiti film.

They answer different problems. K-Shield is the thicker security film, and it is fitted to the interiorface of the glass, where it holds the pane together under impact. Anti-graffiti film is a thin sacrificial layer applied to the outer face, so that etching or paint damages the film and only the film is replaced. Where the security film works internally, the sacrificial layer is far thinner and is meant to be renewed on the exterior face. Security film is not designed to be taken off and renewed in the same way. There is more on our anti-graffiti films and how they cover your building against external vandalism.

In practice they are one product described from two directions. Safety is the case where glass breaks by accident and you do not want fragments. Security is the case where someone breaks it deliberately and you do not want a hole. K-Shield answers both, because both come down to holding the pane together.

While our commercial window tinting page covers the shades and finishes, this one is about what the glass does at the moment it fails.

Annealed glass is the ordinary float glass in most older frames, and it is the construction security film has always been fitted to. K-Shield goes on the inside face, where its job is to help hold the broken pieces together. Whether an edge attachment is specified as well is a decision about your frame and your fixing rather than about the film, so have your dealer look at the opening before anything is priced.

It depends on the opening, and it is not a question a film thickness can answer. Film, glass, frame and any attachment behave as one system, and all four have to be looked at together before a specification is written. Kepler publishes K-Shield as an 8 mil safety and security film designed to help hold shattered glass together, and publishes no forced-entry, blast or storm rating for it, so any performance requirement beyond that has to be set against a tested assembly. Put the question to your dealer against your actual glazing, and get the edge detail written into the specification.

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