5 tips to know to buy your window glass

Windows and doors are the first thing someone sees when they enter your home. It gives the first impression about your home and your taste for superior quality products. Glass plays a vital role in making the windows look complete and beautiful.

Here are the 5 key points to remember:
Solar control
Solar energy can be pleasant and utilisable in many cases, but especially in buildings, it represents a major source of overheating and unpleasant glare. Solar control glass, usually either body-tinted (absorbing) or coated (reflecting), is used to reduce unwanted solar radiant light and heat energy transmitted through glass.

Acoustic insulation
The need to restrict sound arriving from the external environment means that glass should be able to shield and insulate the internal spaces of a building. Glass type is the major factor influencing the passage of sound. The most common types of glass used are laminated and insulating glass (double glazed). Laminated glass incorporates a special acoustic PVB interlayer, which absorbs some of the incident sound energy, reducing its passage. Better sound insulation can also be achieved with double-glazed glass in which vacuum-sealed inner spaces and some gases affect sound insulation and provide acoustic stability.

Thermal insulation
The U value is a measure of the rate of heat loss of a building component. It is expressed as watts per square metre, per degree Kelvin, W/m2K. Lower U-Values are achieved by multiple glazing layers, gases and the use of low-e coatings.

Strength
Glass is subjected to different types of environmental and human loads. It is therefore vital to select glass that can withstand this pressure.

Visual appearance
When we talk about visual appearance we have in mind the colour of glass surface. Glass can be available in several colours. When we combine single sheets of glass in laminated or insulated units, they typically change in overall colour and appearance. Glass colour appearance can be also conditioned by several environmental factors.

Spend once on a superior quality glass for your UPVC window and doors. Laminated glass, tempered glass, insulated glass, bent glass, sound control glass, burglar resistant, and more, even bullet proof glass is available.

Authored by__
Mario Schmidt, Managing Director,
Lingel Windows & Doors Technologies Pvt Ltd
www.lingelwindows.in
www.lingel-germany.com