Stanislaus County Public Works
280 Windows of Solar Gard TrueVue 30 for Stanislaus County Public Works
A county public works facility with a wall of full-view glass bay doors and 280 windows to film. The spec: Solar Gard TrueVue 30, cut and laid pane by pane, top rows by lift and scaffold.
Modesto, Stanislaus County, CA
- Film
- Solar Gard TrueVue 30
- Windows
- 280
- Sector
- County government
- Installed
- Sept 2026
The challenge
Vehicle bays are built around their doors, and on this building the doors are glass: full-view aluminum sectional doors, glazed top to bottom, running bay after bay along the elevation. That is good for the people working inside — daylight on the floor and a clear view of the yard — and it is also a great deal of unshaded glass facing an open lot in a Central Valley summer. Sun comes straight through onto the shop floor, the concrete and equipment soak it up, and glare lands at working height. Across 280 windows that stops being a comfort complaint and becomes a facility problem.
What we did
We specified Solar Gard TrueVue 30 for all 280 windows. The 30 is the share of visible light the film lets through: enough to keep the bays daylit and the yard in plain view, while rejecting a meaningful share of the solar heat and taking the glare off the floor. TrueVue is built to stay optically clear from the inside rather than mirrored or murky, which matters in a working bay — the doors are there to be seen through. Every pane in a sectional door is its own piece of glass set between aluminum rails, so each one was cut, wet-applied and trimmed to its frame individually: the lower rows from the floor, the upper rows from a scissor lift and rolling scaffold.
The result
All 280 windows carry the same film, so from the yard the bay elevation reads as one consistent run of glass instead of a patchwork of shades, paper and blinds. Inside, the bays keep their daylight and their view out, with the heat and glare through the doors cut back. For a public agency it is also a straightforward job to document: one named film, one specification, applied the same way on every pane.
