Epic Certified Expert · trained in-house · the badge and what it means
We don’t hire installers. We make them.
Every person who touches your glass is an Epic employee who spent months as an apprentice beside an Epic Certified Installation Specialist before working unsupervised — learning Epic’s own tooling, Epic’s own processes for hanging every film we install, and, for security film, the patent-pending Epic Method. No subcontractors. Ever.
Five steps from first day to the badge.
Epic’s internal training program — the same for every discipline, with the discipline’s own methods layered on.
Hired for the person, not the résumé
Most of Epic’s best installers had never touched a roll of film. We hire for care, patience and the ability to be taught — and we teach the rest. Epic does not pull installers off the street and send them to your building.
Months as an apprentice
Every new hire starts as an apprentice working beside an Epic Certified Installation Specialist: shop first, then live jobs, never alone. The apprenticeship runs for months, not days, and it ends when the lead signs off — not on a calendar date.
Epic’s tooling and processes
Epic has developed its own tools and step-by-step processes for hanging film — not just security film with structural sealant, but every film we install. Apprentices learn Epic’s way of prepping glass, handling film, squeegeeing, trimming and finishing an edge, with the same tools on every truck.
The Epic Method, hands-on
For security film, the apprentice learns the patent-pending Epic Method on test frames and then on the job: removing the interior gasket, driving the cork wedges into the open channel and cutting them flush, carrying the film to the frame and keying the structural silicone into the open channel. It is taught and checked, opening by opening.
Certified, and still checked
When the lead and the Field Project Manager agree, the apprentice becomes an Epic Certified Installation Specialist and earns the badge. The checking does not stop: every job closes out opening by opening against the pattern list, and the 3M warranty is registered within 30 days.
Certified in everything we install.
The original badge said “Safety & Security Window Film” because that is where Epic started. Epic is certified — by 3M and by its own program — in every discipline on this list, and each one now carries its own mark.
Safety & security window film
The Epic Method: gasket out, cork wedges in, film to the frame, structural silicone keyed into the channel. The patent-pending installation system, taught hands-on and signed off opening by opening before a specialist works unsupervised.
About this work →Solar & architectural window film
Sun-control and architectural films on commercial and residential glass — Epic’s own tooling and squeegee sequence for a dry, dirt-free, edge-perfect install on every pane, from a storefront to a curtain wall.
About this work →3M™ DI-NOC™ architectural finishes
3M-trained and certified DI-NOC installation specialists, plus Epic’s own methods for seams, returns and compound curves on elevator cabs, doors, columns and casework.
About this work →Environmental graphics
Wall murals, window and floor graphics, branded environments: surface prep, panel registration, and the film-safe over-film layer Epic developed for graphics on security film.
About this work →Decorative & glass finishes
3M™ Fasara™ and decorative glass films — pattern registration across a run of glass, frost bands at a consistent height, no visible seams.
About this work →The film is only as good as the hands that put it on.
3M makes the best films in the industry. Every installer in the country can buy them. What a building owner or a district actually receives is the installation — and that is decided by who shows up, how they were trained and whether anyone checks their work.
Epic’s training comes from the other side of the wall: our founder, Chris Eder, grew up around the trades — his grandfather was in them — and has practiced construction his whole life, alongside everything else he has built. He spent twelve years building one-off custom motorcycles, frames included, where a structural mistake puts a rider on the pavement. He is a licensed glazier who has set windows, not just filmed them, and he has been a window film installer since before there was an Epic. None of that is a résumé line; it is the standard. Epic was founded because of a security film installed wrong at our own children’s school. The apprenticeship, the tooling, the processes and the badge all exist so that it does not happen on your glass.
- 100% Epic employees — no subcontractors, no day labor
- Months of supervised apprenticeship before working alone
- Epic’s own tooling and processes for every film, not just security film
- Signed off by the lead and the Field Project Manager, then checked opening by opening on every job
Learn a trade from the ground up.
Epic hires people, not résumés. If you are careful, patient and willing to be taught, we will teach you a skilled trade — paid, on the job, beside the best installers in the industry — and you will finish with a certification that means something.
Field positions start as Apprentice Installation Specialist and grow to Certified Installation Specialist, Lead and Field Project Manager. Epic operates nationwide from McKinney, Texas and Aurora, Colorado.
Every window has a record — and initials on every step.
Each installer logs every window in Epic’s app and initials each step — cleaning, gasket out, wedges, film, solvent wipe, tape, the structural bead, cleanup. Every building we have worked on is cataloged by room and opening with its measurements and film code, so a repair starts with a photo and a room number, not a re-survey. With your permission, a one-inch Epic tag in the corner tells whoever runs the building next who to call. How the record works →
Expertise. Precision. Innovation. Credibility.
Expertise
Inventor-led · 100% in-house certified crewsPrecision
Epic Precision cutting · the Epic MethodInnovation
Patent-pending method · proprietary softwareCredibility
3M Dealer of the Year, years running · references on fileEpic Certified Expert questions
What does “Epic Certified Expert” mean?
Is that different from being a “3M Authorized Dealer”?
I have seen other companies call their installers “certified experts.”
Do you train on products other than security film?
Are you hiring?
Want to meet the people who will be on your glass?
Ask for the crew lead’s name when you request an assessment. We’ll tell you who is coming, and how long they trained.
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