To make a conservatory, glass must be used, otherwise how would sunlight come in? What kind of sun room is it if you don’t come in? But having said that, if the glass is not selected correctly, it will be too hot in summer and too cold in winter, and it will be uncomfortable to live in.
How can I choose a glass door and window that can both keep heat and heat insulate? Here is a dissemination of relevant knowledge for everyone.
The common glass on the market includes: single-layer tempered glass, laminated tempered glass, hollow tempered glass, laminated hollow tempered glass, coated glass or LOW-E glass, etc. Below we introduce the characteristics and applicability of each glass separately, so that you can easily choose according to your own situation.
Ordinary single layer tempered glass
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Definition: It is a layer of tempered glass with different thicknesses, such as 5mm, 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12mm, etc.
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single layer tempered glass
Advantages: When this kind of glass is tempered and broken, the whole piece of glass is broken into small particles, which is not easy to hurt people. If the shards do not fall from a very high place, the damage to the people and property below will be minimized because the shards of glass are small and harmless.
Disadvantages: But despite this, once broken, this kind of glass cannot prevent the penetration of glass impactors and fall to the ground, which is very unsafe.
Suggestion: It is not recommended for customers to choose single-layer tempered glass. After all, the conservatory is usually built on a high place, or the facade space is relatively large, and it is inevitable that objects will fall from high altitude and hit the glass. This single-layer tempered glass is generally used on office partitions, doors or hotel glass partitions or doors.
Laminated tempered glass
Definition: This kind of glass is two layers of toughened glass sandwiched together, with high safety, connected by a dark layer of adhesive film.
Advantages: After being damaged by impact, it is not easy to be smashed through, the fragments will not fall off, and it is tightly adhered to the film. Compared with other glass, it has the performance of shock resistance, anti-theft, bullet-proof and explosion-proof. If a small object falls from a height and can break through the tempered glass, the laminated glass below can basically support it without falling.
Suggestion: It is recommended that owners who build a sun room choose this kind of glass, which has high safety.
Even if the glass is broken, it will not fall and hurt people. The standard configuration of laminated tempered glass used on the top of the sun room is also the most commonly used specification is 5mm+5mm laminated tempered glass, 6mm+6mm laminated tempered glass, of course there are other specifications customized. If there are people on the top, at least 10mm+10mm laminated tempered glass is configured, because to consider the load bearing, glass of this thickness must be used.
Hollow tempered glass
Definition: A layer of air or other gas that forms a certain thickness between two sheets of glass and restricts its flow. Thereby reducing the convective conduction and heat transfer of the glass, so it has better heat insulation ability.
Advantages: If the side of the balcony conservatory is sealed, if the sound insulation and heat insulation effect is considered to be better, hollow tempered glass can be used to have the sound insulation and heat insulation function.
Suggestion: Use hollow tempered glass as the top material of the terrace sun room. The thickness is generally 5 plus 5 enough. In addition, the glass commonly used in the sun room with a glass roof is laminated hollow tempered glass, two layers of glass laminated, and one layer of hollow, so that the strength of the glass is sufficient and the heat insulation is better.
Advantages: save energy.
Suggestion: Generally, for glass with this process, you need to choose insulating glass or insulating laminated glass, because it is not good to directly make laminated glass with coating or Low-E, and the maintenance life is not long.
But for safety reasons, it is recommended to use laminated double-layer tempered glass. If both layers are broken, the whole piece of glass will not be completely broken, and it will still be completely laid on the frame, but the glass looks cracked. If you consider that the effect of sound insulation and heat insulation is better, you can use hollow tempered glass.
If you don’t care about the two points of sound insulation and heat insulation, it is also feasible to use single-layer tempered glass. You can consider making a roof or adding a curtain on the top, because the roof of the sun room is easy to accumulate dust after a long time.