Glazing has a major impact on the energy efficiency of the building envelope. Poorly designed windows, skylights and glazed surfaces can make your home too hot or too cold. If designed correctly, they’ll help maintain year-round comfort, reducing or eliminating the need for artificial heating and cooling. Glazing is a key element of your home’s design providing, light, ventilation, noise control and security. There is a wide variety of glass products currently available. Our company offers different types of glass: two transparent float glass, Low-Emissivity glass, Toned glass, glazing with Stopsol … Glazing can be double or triple, can be composed of different types of windows, closed to the ambient air or filled with inert gas (argon). Argon is inexpensive, nontoxic, nonreactive, clear, and odorless.
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The glass in your windows absorbs heat then radiates it again on the colder, outside, surface. K Glass has a so-called low emissivity coating which is positioned on surface 3 (counting from the outside) of the Insulating Glass Unit (IGU).
The low emissivity coating is a poor radiator of heat. So the heat absorbed by the coated glass does not travel across the air gap to the outer pane and the cold outside world. Instead the coating reflects the heat back into the room.
Windows incorporating K Glass allow heat from the sun through and keep heat inside, making it easier and more cost effective to keep buildings warm.
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