Most often, the choice of owners of country houses falls on the use of frames, although the appearance of frameless designs is really amazing. Frame glazing of verandas and terraces involves the use of various materials that have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The use of wooden frames is a typical glazing of veranda and terrace in a wooden house. Such frames can be made independently, and it is possible to order modern wooden glass units, which are considered the most expensive designs among all materials. The advantages of this material are mainly its naturalness, as well as long service life, high thermal insulation and the ability to replace individual parts. The disadvantages are most often the requirements for processing wood against pests and fungi, as well as its “dislike” for moisture. Glazing made of PVC or plastic is the most popular option for today. The advantages of this type of glazing are many: good thermal insulation, ease of maintenance and operation, a large selection of colors and models. The disadvantages include a relatively short service life (10-25 years), a large profile weight, for which a foundation is required, the difficulty of repairing it yourself.
There is an option to create a more durable structure due to the additional metal frame - such windows are called metal-plastic. If necessary, the room can be provided with decent thermal insulation, if you chooses such a construction, where there is an inert gas between the blocks with glass.
If the room is not heated, you can use the glazing of veranda and terrace with aluminum profile. It is only suitable for cold glazing, which is the only limitation when using this material. The advantages of this method include high strength, light weight, long service life (about 80 years), environmental friendliness, the ability to create any shape, color and size of structures.
Relatively new direction in glazing is the use of polycarbonate instead of glass. Glazing of veranda and terrace with polycarbonate has a number of advantages: high thermal insulation properties, greater durability compared to glass, lightness of material.
By way of opening the windows are considered several options for glazing:
- casement glazing is all familiar from childhood opening of a window to yourself
- sliding glazing of veranda and terrace implies “riding” the doors on rollers between the guides, and there are several options for such a “ride” (the simplest design like a wardrobe, the availability of additional fittings for initial extension of the window sash from the integral construction or the option when the sashes are gone to the corners, where they “open” and fold, like pages in a book)
- “concertina” type glazing, when the sashes are concertina folded to the desired distance.
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