Double and Triple Glazed Energy Efficient Units
It’s never been more important to try and reduce your carbon footprint but ensuring that your home is as energy efficient as possible. Not only is this good for the planet but it means that you’ll reduce your energy bills and keep your home warmer in the winter.
Double Glazed Units
Choosing new windows with energy efficient glass will reduce the energy consumption when compared with standard window glass and frames, whilst also reducing your heating bills. It is important to ensure your home is as energy efficient as possible. The use of traditional hard coat low emissivity glass has become less and less over time, largely due to legislation changes as U values are typically higher and the glass is not as energy efficient.
This has created a path for the next generation of soft coat low emissivity glass units. Soft coat products deliver superior thermal performance and are far more neutral in appearance than the previous hard coat low emissivity products. Our supplier offers two different types of units, branded Ecopane and EcopanePlus. The Ug-value (glass only) of these products are 1.2 and 1.00
Triple Glazed Units
Triple glazing is just as it sounds, there are three panes of glass in the unit with two voids which are filled with Argon Gas. This increases the thickness of the unit and slows down the thermal transfer.
A double glazed unit is 24mm or 28mm thick. Our triple glazed units are 40mm thick resulting in a window U- value of 0.89 (the Ug-value –glass only- is 0.5) when using Ecoplus glass.
Acoustic Glazed Units
The outer pane of the double glazed unit is made with Acoustic laminated glass, 6.4mm thick, to improve sound reduction. The glass is made with special PVB (polyvinylbutyral) interlayers. The inner pane of the double glazed unit remains the same as a standard double glazed unit. The noise reduction is approx. 34db (decibels) but this will depend on the location of the window and its surroundings.
A lawn mower is approx. 90db, a hoover approx. 70db, a normal voice approx. 60db and 30db is similar to a whispered voice.