1. Begin where you actually feel uncomfortable Choose the room and position where the cold is most noticeable. It might be a chair near a bay, a bed beside an external wall or a desk facing a window. The starting point matters because discomfort is experienced in a particular place, not as an average temperature […]
Tag Archives: Bath homes
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1. The problem begins with the room, not the glass A glazed room can be a pleasure in one season and difficult to occupy in another. The cause is rarely captured by the area of glass alone. A shallow room with a shaded garden outlook behaves differently from a deep kitchen beneath a broad rooflight. […]
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Oct
Oct
1. Weather tests the whole opening A window can seem entirely sound through a dry week and then admit air or water during a single period of driving rain. This is not mysterious. Wind changes the pressure across an elevation and pushes rain against surfaces it may barely touch in calmer weather. Orientation, shelter, height […]
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Oct
1. Let the change in light show you how rooms work When the clocks go back in autumn, the official hour changes; the daylight available to a house follows the season. Evenings become darker earlier, and the rooms that felt open in summer can begin to feel quite different. In the UK, British Summer Time […]
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Sep
Sep
Start With the Glazing as a Complete System An annual review of architectural glazing is most useful when it begins with the whole opening rather than an individual pane of glass. A window or glazed door is an assembly in which glass, frames, seals, hardware and, where relevant, tracks and thresholds work together. Looking at […]
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Sep
Glazing Lives at the Most Exposed Part of the Building Windows and glazed doors occupy a demanding position within the architecture of a home. They form part of the boundary between a relatively controlled interior and an external environment that changes continuously. Across the seasons, frames, seals and surrounding components encounter variations in temperature, moisture, […]
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Sep
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Start With Access, Not Cleaning Products With large architectural glazing, the first consideration should not be which cleaning product to use, but whether the glass can be reached safely in the first place. Floor-to-ceiling windows, tall fixed panes and expansive glazed elevations can appear straightforward from inside a room, yet their external surfaces may sit […]
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Why Winter Reveals More About Your Glazing Windows and glazed doors form part of the boundary between two very different environments, and winter makes that role particularly noticeable. As external temperatures fall and heating keeps the interior warmer, the difference between conditions inside and outside becomes greater. Add stronger winds, prolonged rain and higher levels […]