Mike: This window may bring back some memories a wide old window with the wood frame and a single pane of glass plus a classic latch. Beautiful glass that easily shattered and full of imperfections this are the windows our grandparents knew but in this new millennium, things have definitely changed. What in this are definitely not your grandfather’s window anymore, aren’t they?
Tim: You are correct. The only thing that’s really stayed the same over the years is the material. Now we use a clear western pine throughout most of the industry.
Mike: And how efficient is wood compared to a metal frame window?
Tim: Conservatively speaking, you’d probably estimated about thousand to 1100 times energy efficiency.
Mike: Conservatively speaking, 1100 times more efficient.
Tim: Right, correct.
Mike: How about the ear pocket now you’ve got 2 panes instead of the single pane.
Tim: Correct. The old products used to offer single pane glass. It was actually a little thinner than this material right here. We’ve actually gone to a double pane, standard is now 5/8 inch thick IG which stands for insulated glass. A lot of stuff in the market place use the only 3/8 inch thick.
Mike: And when you say insulated glass, what’s insulated about it?
Tim: Insulated glass, our glass panels are manufactured with hermetically sealed unit, meaning it’s vacuum sealed. Inside this vacuum seal, they’ll only incorporate an argon gas as well as a double low ink coding on the inside of this inner panel. What they do is they work together to allow the visible light through the inner part of the house at the same time they stop about 87 to 88 percent of the infrared, the ultraviolet, and the other heat from entering.
Mike: So anything that’s heating out the house is actually being blocked out for at least 87%.
Tim: Correct. And they do that without dark tints. Tints are kind of a ancient technology.
Mike: Okay, so very, very efficient and yet you still have the beauty of whatever’s outside.
Tim: Correct.
Mike: Okay, then next to you, you go from 2 to 3.
Tim: Okay, yes, this is a state of the art product we designed that’s used with our mini blinds features and our mountings, which are a divided grid that you’ll find between some of the windows as an option. We’ve taken and built upon the old insulated glass material which you’ve seen in our previous window we added a third pane which now makes it much more energy efficient. We’ve also added what’s called the wood thermo break in here which adds much more energy efficiency because the air space is much greater.
Mike: I like that a lot and the air is trapped still in. it’s the best insulator but there aren’t any gas in there. And then we talked about a wood window but you do have metal cladding in the exterior, why is it cladding metal?
Tim: Correct. And if you can see the cutaway what we’ve done is it’s still a solid wood window through and through. The only thing we’ve done is put a little skin, we call it cladding in this industry to give you a maintenance free exterior. And you’ll never need a scraper pad.
Mike: I like that so no work on the outside but super energy efficient. And we still maintain the same view.
Tim: You’re exactly right.
Mike: And there are innovative developments and style and design as well. Casement windows with streamline fold away crank handles that won’t interfere with room side window treatments. A self-storing retractable screen that locks in place when you want it and disappears when you don’t. Double-hung windows that tilt out so you can easily washed them from inside the house. Windows with removable grills for easy cleaning and windows that appear to be made of separate panes of glass that really aren’t.
Tim: These windows here are the most traditional looking products on the market today. The old fashioned products used to be built with what we call true divided lites. Now where they are separate panes of glass. We now manufacture these products with one main seal which makes them much more energy efficient. The mountings are simply applied to the glass from the inside and outside for decorative purpose only.
Mike: And there’s more, so now shades inside the window.
Tim: Correct. This is the way of the future.
Mike: Yeah I like that’ it’s got to be easy to clean and the pleats should never get dirty should they between the glass.
Tim: You are correct. A minimum cleaning aversely no dustings such as you have with your current blinds today.
Mike: Okay and this one is pleats and then right next to it looks like mini blinds.
Tim: This is what we usually call a razon or slim shade. It will operate 2 features, a tilt feature and a raise and lower feature.
Mike: Excellent, excellent and again easy to clean it shouldn’t get dirty between the glass and were not going to go all blind by blind and dust them all.
Tim: You are right. And these are available in different colors and options.
Mike: Okay so anything you want. And then I don’t see any strings hanging anywhere so we’re not going to have the dogs pulling on them and kids playing on the strings or anything.
Tim: Yeah, we do that for safety issues. We had too many people who were worried about their small children. So we eliminated that design altogether this year.
Mike: And then how does it affect the budget now you don’t have to buy a window covering when you put in a new window.
Tim: Right. Yeah, you’ve got both budgets all in one.
Mike: Replacing windows can have an impact on your budget and otherwise as well. When the owner of this house in the country replaced all the windows and added on a sun room, she got a nice surprise.
Sylvia: When my 2 bills came in, they didn’t go up even with the additional 500 square feet. And the windows, there are 11 windows across the back of the house that face the west and these are 5-foot windows I think, an addition to a sliding glass door and still the utility bills did not go up in the winter or the summer.
Mike: For more information on how the latest developments in window technology and design can make your new house look great and save money every month on your energy bill, visit us on the internet at MichaelHoligan.com.
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