Sunshine 3020
Window tinting across Sunshine 3020. Sunshine is inland enough that maritime moderation has little effect on summer afternoons, but tree canopy through the older streets is mature and provides genuine softening on most residential blocks.
The apartments along Hampshire Road are the exception: they face directly onto open sky with no shading and run hot through the afternoon on west-facing elevations.
Our services
What we install in Sunshine
Sunshine work splits between solar film on Hampshire Road apartments, frosted and safety film through the older residential streets, and shopfront work including anti-graffiti film along the retail strip.
Window Tinting
Frost tinting, one-way mirror film, solar heat reduction, decorative and safety film installed across Melbourne
Commercial Tinting
Office, shopfront, anti-graffiti, safety and security film
Automotive Tinting
Premium ceramic film for cars, utes and vans, tinted to legal VLT across Melbourne
Why choose us
Why Sunshine homeowners choose us
Most Sunshine homeowners get a salesperson for the measure, someone else they never speak to for the ordering, and a subcontractor they have never met for the install. When something goes wrong, each party points at the other.
With Stay Shady your Sunshine job stays with one person from start to finish. Dany measures your windows, quotes them on the spot, installs the film, and stands behind the warranty. That single point of accountability is why clients across Sunshine come back for second and third projects.
Owner-operated
Dany personally measures, installs and warranties every Sunshine job. No rotating crews.
Free measure
Free on-site measure across Sunshine. Dany quotes it while he's there, no charge and no obligation.
Transparent quotes
Honest price for your Sunshine property on the spot. No hidden costs, no waiting.
No subcontractors
One point of contact from your first call to the final install in Sunshine. No hand-offs.
Workmanship warranty
Twelve-month workmanship warranty on every Sunshine installation from day one.
Melbourne-wide
Sunshine sits inside our standard service zone. Metro Melbourne, Geelong and surrounding areas, six days a week.
How it works
How it works in Sunshine
Same process, same person, every job in Sunshine.
On-site quote
Dany comes to your Sunshine place, measures every window and gives you the price on the spot. No two-day wait for a written quote.
Book the install
Happy with the number, pick a day that suits you.
Get shaded
Install day at your Sunshine property. A car takes two to four hours, a full house four to six. Site left clean.
Enjoy
Twelve-month workmanship warranty from day one, manufacturer film warranty on top. Film cures over a few days; a little haze early on is normal and clears itself.
What our customers say
Rated 5 Stars on Google
“Would highly recommend Dany and his business. He was quick to return my call, provided great detail and clear with his quote. Great communicator and has done a great job with our 9 windows that needed retinting.”
“Great job and very fair price. Had two panels done upstairs and reduced the UV by a lot now. Would recommend.”
“Danny did a great job, great communication. We are very happy and will be using him again at our next place.”
“Danny was professional and friendly throughout the whole process. Super efficient as well. All done in one week!”
“10/10 so knowledgeable and very clean work.”
“5 stars.”
“I appreciated how easy the whole process was. Quote was clear, no hidden costs and everything happened exactly when promised!”
“Great finished product. Very polite and efficient services provided by Dany. Do recommend.”
“Great service, responsive and reasonably priced.”
“Dany was amazing! He's very friendly, made the whole process so easy, and was very transparent through everything. Highly recommend!”
“10/10 quality service and communication, I've got very large floor to ceiling windows and he's done a perfect job at tinting them. 100% recommend.”
“Awesome work and great customer service.”
“Had my car windows tinted today, really happy with work. Really easy to talk to, more than welcome to help with anything.”
“Would highly recommend Dany and his business. He was quick to return my call, provided great detail and clear with his quote. Great communicator and has done a great job with our 9 windows that needed retinting.”
“Great job and very fair price. Had two panels done upstairs and reduced the UV by a lot now. Would recommend.”
“Danny did a great job, great communication. We are very happy and will be using him again at our next place.”
“Danny was professional and friendly throughout the whole process. Super efficient as well. All done in one week!”
“10/10 so knowledgeable and very clean work.”
“5 stars.”
“I appreciated how easy the whole process was. Quote was clear, no hidden costs and everything happened exactly when promised!”
“Great finished product. Very polite and efficient services provided by Dany. Do recommend.”
“Great service, responsive and reasonably priced.”
“Dany was amazing! He's very friendly, made the whole process so easy, and was very transparent through everything. Highly recommend!”
“10/10 quality service and communication, I've got very large floor to ceiling windows and he's done a perfect job at tinting them. 100% recommend.”
“Awesome work and great customer service.”
“Had my car windows tinted today, really happy with work. Really easy to talk to, more than welcome to help with anything.”
“Would highly recommend Dany and his business. He was quick to return my call, provided great detail and clear with his quote. Great communicator and has done a great job with our 9 windows that needed retinting.”
“Great job and very fair price. Had two panels done upstairs and reduced the UV by a lot now. Would recommend.”
“Danny did a great job, great communication. We are very happy and will be using him again at our next place.”
“Danny was professional and friendly throughout the whole process. Super efficient as well. All done in one week!”
“10/10 so knowledgeable and very clean work.”
“5 stars.”
“I appreciated how easy the whole process was. Quote was clear, no hidden costs and everything happened exactly when promised!”
“Great finished product. Very polite and efficient services provided by Dany. Do recommend.”
“Great service, responsive and reasonably priced.”
“Dany was amazing! He's very friendly, made the whole process so easy, and was very transparent through everything. Highly recommend!”
“10/10 quality service and communication, I've got very large floor to ceiling windows and he's done a perfect job at tinting them. 100% recommend.”
“Awesome work and great customer service.”
“Had my car windows tinted today, really happy with work. Really easy to talk to, more than welcome to help with anything.”
Local knowledge
Sunshine up close
Sunshine housing stock
Sunshine housing is unusually layered for its size. The original residential stock is mid-century brick veneer family homes from the 1950s and 1960s on quarter-acre lots, mostly through the streets between the station and McIntyre Road.
A second band of 1970s and 1980s cream brick and rendered family homes fills out the central pocket.
The past fifteen years have brought significant apartment development around the station, with multi-storey developments running along Hampshire Road and continuing toward Sunshine Hospital.
Townhouse infill is common across the older streets where original blocks have been subdivided. Hampshire Road itself is a long active commercial strip with mixed-era shopfronts running from the station down to Anderson Road. The window mix reflects all of this.
Original timber-framed sash windows in the mid-century homes, aluminium sliders in the 1970s and 1980s stock, modern aluminium framing in the apartments, and large floor-to-ceiling commercial glazing along the strip.
Sun and climate
Sunshine is inland enough that maritime moderation has little effect on summer afternoons, but tree canopy through the older streets is mature and provides genuine softening on most residential blocks.
Apartments along Hampshire Road typically face directly onto open sky with no shading and run hot through the afternoon on west-facing units.
The commercial strip itself gets full unfiltered sun for most of the trading day, which is why heat rejection film is a regular request from shopkeepers.
The mid-century residential pockets behind the strip are usually well shaded by mature trees and the smaller original window sizes meant the rooms were never designed for big solar gain, so heat load is more manageable than in the newer estate suburbs.
Winter is moderate, with the apartments tending toward overheating from their own thermal mass and the older houses tending toward heat loss through single-glazed sashes that have done sixty years of duty.
What works in Sunshine
The apartments are the clearest case. Unshaded west-facing glass, no ability to change the glazing, and film is the only practical lever, so a solar film with a strong infrared number does real work there.
Film also suits body corporate requirements better than anything external, because from the street it reads as a slightly darker pane.
Through the older brick veneer streets the canopy takes the edge off, so the heat case is weaker and the work skews toward privacy and safety: frosted film on bathrooms and sidelights, and safety film on ground-floor sliders.
Along the retail strip, shopfronts take solar film for heat and glare, frosted film for privacy or branding, and anti-graffiti film where the glass is exposed.
On the ground
Common questions in Sunshine
Yes, comfortably. The free measure and written quote are no charge.
Yes, and they're among the better candidates for film in the suburb. Unshaded west-facing glass with no option to change the glazing is exactly the situation film is for.
Usually. Film goes on the inside of the glass and reads as a slightly darker pane from outside, which suits rules about consistent external appearance. We can supply the film spec and a sample for the committee before anything is booked.
Yes. Anti-graffiti film is a sacrificial layer, so when the glass is tagged or scratched the film is replaced rather than the pane. We work around trading hours where needed.
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Book a free on-site measure across Sunshine 3020. Price quoted on the spot. Twelve-month workmanship warranty on every install.
