We fit window film to Teika's office complexes and commercial premises along Brīvības gatve, and to the blocks of flats, low-rise housing and pre-war detached houses in the streets behind them. Two different briefs in one neighbourhood: glare on work screens and overheated rooms by the glass - and privacy and comfort at home. Measuring and quoting are free, with prices from €25/m².
Two enquiries from the same street, and the right answer in each is the opposite of the other. The first comes from an office floor by Brīvības gatve: by the afternoon half the desks can no longer make out any contrast on the monitor, the blinds have been down since morning, and people are sitting under artificial light beside a window they are paying rent for. The second comes from a flat a few blocks away: the bedroom is too warm in summer, but more to the point, everyone walking past looks straight into the ground-floor window. In the first case the answer is a uniformly stronger film across the whole run of windows. In the second, that same answer would be a mistake.
That inversion is Teika's defining feature. Nobody lives in an office - the lighting is artificial in the evening anyway, so a darker film costs you nothing and hands back an entire run of windows for use. In a home, somebody spends the whole day and night in that room, and a film that is too dark in the living room becomes more of a problem a month later than the original heat ever was. So on residential properties we usually fit a lighter film in the main rooms and a stronger or frosted one only on individual panes - where the problem is specific. There is no single recipe that fits the whole neighbourhood, and we don't pretend otherwise.
What we do in practical terms: we apply film to the glass already in the building. Windows aren't taken out, frames aren't touched, and most properties are completed in a single visit. Which film suits your windows is settled during the survey on site - that is free, as is the quote, and we don't charge a separate call-out in Teika, because the neighbourhood is within Riga. We have no office here; we drive out to Teika exactly as we would to any other Riga address. Prices start from €25/m², covering both film and labour; prices are excl. VAT, with a €75 minimum order. Behind that are 15 years of experience and more than 400 completed properties. If there is already old, yellowed or bubbling film on the glass, we remove it as separate work.
On one street there are glazed office façades; a few blocks away, bedroom and living-room windows. These are different briefs, and they must not be muddled together.
In office complexes and technology-company premises the glazing is usually large and continuous - tall planes, in places floor to ceiling. Technically that is the simplest work we do: few cuts, few edges, quick progress per square metre. Yet this is precisely where film makes the biggest measurable difference, because a great deal of energy comes through glass like that during the warm hours.
The complaints in office space are two, and almost always the same two. The first: desks by the window become the hottest spot in the room by the afternoon, and the air conditioning runs flat out while the far end of the room is cool. The second: reflections and glare on monitors. It is the second that gets in people's way every single day - the blinds go down in the morning and never go back up, and the expensive view out of the window turns into a wall.
In spaces like these the film can be uniformly stronger across the whole façade - nobody lives in an office, and the evening lighting is artificial in any case. A continuous façade brings a second practical requirement: every window on a floor or in a wing has to match, or the building looks patchy from outside. We agree that during the survey, particularly where the client leases only part of the building and the appearance of the façade has to be signed off with the owner.
In the blocks behind the main road the briefs are entirely domestic. Here there are pre-war detached houses with smaller, divided panes and timber frames, alongside low-rise and multi-storey housing with ordinary, modest windows. The conversation starts with the bedroom being impossible to sleep in during summer, the sun falling on the television screen in the living room, the plants on the sill and the parquet fading, or every passer-by looking into the ground-floor window.
Here the approach is the reverse of the office one. In a flat someone spends the whole twenty-four hours in the room, and a film that is too dark in the living room starts to irritate within a month more than the original heat did - especially in winter, when there is little enough daylight in Riga as it is. So in homes we usually fit a lighter film in the main rooms and a stronger or frosted one only where it is genuinely needed: the ground-floor window on the street side, the bathroom, a stairwell window or an east-facing bedroom.
The windows of pre-war detached houses take more time. The panes are often divided, the frames narrow, the paint on the edges old and soft, and the glass thin in places. Every pane is measured and cut separately, so the price is built up pane by pane rather than as one large plane. We say that at the quoting stage, so there are no surprises later.
Properties right on the main road have their own particulars. The windows on the lower floors sit at the level of pedestrians and bus stops, and during the day people simply look in. Here the usual choice is mirror film or frosted film on the lower panes, leaving the upper ones clear. One thing we say honestly at the outset: film does not help against street noise. It is a thin layer on the glass and changes sound insulation hardly at all - that is solved by replacing the windows, not by tinting.
Some of Teika's streets have mature trees, and in summer they give the lower floors real shade. That changes the calculation but doesn't remove the question. The shade is seasonal - from October to May the trees are bare, and the low spring and autumn sun reaches far deeper into a room than the summer sun does. The upper floors, moreover, are exposed all year round. That is exactly what we look at during the survey: which panes the tree genuinely shades, and for how much of the year. Not infrequently the conclusion is that only some of the windows need film, and that is the honest calculation.
The most versatile answer for both glazed office walls and the south- and west-facing windows of a flat. Less heat and less brightness at the same time.
For open-plan offices where the desks by the glass are several degrees warmer in the afternoon than the depth of the room.
For daytime privacy on the lower floors facing the main road and the courtyard. At night, with the lights on inside, the effect reverses.
For meeting rooms, glass partitions, bathrooms and panes facing a neighbour. The light stays, the view through does not.
When a pane has to be closed off completely - a server room, part of a store, or a ground-floor window right on the pavement.
For parquet, timber finishes and fabrics in the older houses, and for stock on display in shop and salon windows.
If it isn't clear which option suits, there is nothing to decide in advance. We usually bring samples to the survey and hold them against the actual glass - in an office it is worth doing that in the middle of a working day, with the monitors on, because the difference between two films shows up on screen immediately. We also work with safety film and decorative film, including logos and printed graphics on glass partitions. Prices for every type are collected on the prices page.
1. Enquiry. Fill in the form with the address, the type of property and the main problem. If it is an office, mention the floor, the type of space and whether the work can be done during working hours.
2. A call within 5 minutes. We get in touch and talk the situation through. Often that conversation alone makes clear which type of film is the right one and roughly what the cost will be.
3. Free on-site measuring. We come out, measure every pane, look at the frames, the access and the condition of the glass, and show you samples. In an office this step usually also settles which runs of windows need no film at all.
4. A fixed price. The quote covers film and labour together, excl. VAT. The price doesn't change afterwards as long as the scope of work doesn't. For businesses we issue an invoice with payment terms.
5. Installation. A typical flat or a mid-sized office floor is finished in a day. We wash the glass, cut the film on site, protect sills and floors, and clear everything away behind us. The film takes a few days to dry out fully - during that time you may see slight haziness on the glass, and that is normal.
Tell us the address, the type of property and the main problem - heat, glare on screens or privacy. We'll call you and talk you through the quote.
Teika is within Riga and not far from the centre, so getting there is not in itself a problem. Brīvības gatve and Gustava Zemgala gatve are the main approaches, and the traffic on them varies noticeably through the day. We don't promise an exact arrival minute - in Riga that depends on the time of day, roadworks and the specific address. We promise something else: after you fill in the form we call within 5 minutes and agree a specific time slot, not “sometime in the afternoon”.
The practical thing that affects the work most in Teika is stopping and pulling in. Along the main road and in the densely built residential blocks, free spaces are limited. We carry materials and tools by hand to the property, so it matters to us how close to the building we can stop and whether there is an inner courtyard, an office-building yard or a barrier with an access pass. If access is awkward, that is no obstacle - just tell us in advance and we plan the time accordingly.
It is equally useful to know the floor and whether the building has a lift. Top-floor rooms under a flat roof heat up the most in summer, and a good share of our enquiries come from exactly there.
In offices we need about a metre of clear access to the glass. Desks by the window have to be pulled back or cleared of equipment for that period, so in larger spaces we work zone by zone: we finish one run of windows, people return to their desks, and we move on to the next. If a room can't be freed up during the day, we schedule the work for the evening or the weekend - it just needs saying in advance. Multi-storey properties can be split across days or by wing.
In flats and houses the scheduling is simpler, but there is one detail. Windowsills need clearing of plants and possessions, and curtains or blinds are no trouble to us - we take them down and put them back ourselves. In a block of flats, if several neighbours in one stairwell order at the same time, the work can be done in a single visit, the façade ends up looking uniform, and the €75 minimum order stops being a question.
See also the full Riga page, the list of areas we cover and the list of film services.
The most typical jobs in a mixed office and residential area, with starting prices.
The price includes both the film and the labour. Prices are excl. VAT, with a €75 minimum order. Measuring and quoting in Teika are free. The full price list is on the prices page.
Teika borders several neighbourhoods where we work just as often. Towards the centre there is the Centre itself, with its pre-war buildings and shopfronts; to the north, Brasa and Čiekurkalns with their mix of low-rise and multi-storey housing; and to the east, Purvciems with its standard system-built blocks, where the windows are smaller and the choice of film correspondingly lighter. We have no branch in any of them; every visit is planned from a single base.
That brings one practical benefit. If you have several properties close together - an office in Teika and a flat in a neighbouring area, say - they can be submitted in one form and scheduled as a single job. The whole service area is set out on the service area page, and the other Riga neighbourhoods are on the Riga page.
They can, just not at the same windows. We need about a metre of clear access to the glass, and desks by the window have to be pulled back or cleared of equipment for that period. In large offices we work zone by zone in practice: we finish one run of windows, people return to their desks, and we move on to the next. If a room can't be freed up during the day at all, we schedule the work for the evening or the weekend - mention it in the enquiry so we can set aside the right slot.
This is one of the most common briefs in Teika's office space. The problem usually isn't the sun itself but the bright sky and the reflections on the monitor, which don't go away on an overcast day either. Film reduces the amount of light coming through and cuts glare substantially, so contrast on the screen comes back and the blinds no longer have to stay shut all day. We make the choice according to the aspect: south- and west-facing windows usually take a stronger film, while on the north side a lighter one is enough.
No, and that is the main difference between Teika's two types of client. In an office what matters most is usually glare on screens and the temperature by the glazed wall, and there a uniformly darker film across the whole façade works well. In a flat someone lives in the room around the clock, so a film that is too dark in the living room quickly starts to grate. In homes we more often fit a lighter film in the main rooms and a stronger or frosted one only on individual panes - a ground-floor window, the bathroom or a bedroom.
It helps with heat and privacy, not with noise. Film is a thin layer on the glass and changes sound insulation hardly at all - that is solved by replacing windows and seals, not by tinting. On a busy road, though, film delivers two real things: on the lower floors nobody can see into the room from the pavement or the bus stop during the day, and in summer a west-facing room doesn't heat up nearly as fast. If noise is the main problem, we say so straight away and don't sell you anything you don't need.
Only a survey on site can answer that. Mature street trees give real shade in summer, but it is seasonal: from October to May they are bare, and the low spring and autumn sun reaches far deeper into a room than the July sun does. Shade also rarely covers every floor - the upper ones are usually left exposed. During the measuring we look at which panes the tree genuinely shades and at which times of year, and often the result is that only some of the windows need film.
Prices start from €25/m², and that includes both the film and the labour. Prices are excl. VAT, with a €75 minimum order. Measuring and quoting are free, and there is no separate call-out charge in Teika - the neighbourhood is within Riga. The final figure depends on the number and size of the panes, the type of film, the floor and how clear the access to the windows is. A glazed office wall in large planes usually costs less per square metre than the same area divided into many small panes.
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