Your House Is Already Giving You Clues Most homeowners begin a renovation by noticing what they dislike. A room feels colder than the rest of the house. Condensation appears somewhere it did not before. A window seems draughty, an opening feels awkward, or an extension never quite delivers the comfort that was expected of it. […]
Tag Archives: Professional Resources
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Sep
Installers See a Version of Your House You Never Will By the time a homeowner stands back to admire new glazing, much of the evidence of how it reached that point has disappeared. Frames sit within finished openings, surrounding surfaces are completed and the construction behind them is largely concealed. Installation teams encounter a very […]
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Aug
Aug
Embodied Carbon Starts Before the Window Reaches the Building The embodied carbon of glazing does not begin when a window or door arrives on site. By that point, materials have already been extracted and processed, glass has been manufactured, frames and components have been produced, and the complete system has been assembled and transported. Each […]
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Aug
Aug
The Most Important Glazing Decisions Often Happen Before a Product Is Chosen One of the most useful distinctions in architectural glazing is the difference between designing the glazing and selecting the product. Homeowners often associate the glazing decision with choosing a manufacturer, comparing frame materials or deciding between particular window and sliding-door systems. By the […]
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Aug
Aug
A Brand Specification Is Often a Decision About Risk, Not Recognition When an architect names a particular glazing brand on a drawing or specification, it can be tempting to interpret the choice as a simple product preference. Perhaps they like the appearance, have used the manufacturer before or trust a familiar name. Those factors may […]
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Aug
Aug
Put Glazing on the Programme Before You Need the Glass One of the easiest ways for glazing to become a programme problem is to introduce it to the programme too late. On a construction schedule, windows and doors can sometimes appear as two simple milestones: Order glazing. Install glazing. But there is a considerable amount […]
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Aug
Aug
Clear Information Early Enough to Build Around For a main contractor, glazing information has value only if it arrives before the work that depends on it. A beautifully detailed threshold section is considerably less useful once the screed has been poured, the external levels established and the surrounding construction completed around a different assumption. That […]
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Aug
Aug
Not All Drawings Are Trying to Tell You the Same Thing One of the easiest misunderstandings on a building project begins with a perfectly reasonable sentence: “But that isn’t what the drawing showed.” Sometimes that matters enormously. But before deciding something has gone wrong, there is another question to ask: Which drawing? A project develops […]
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Aug
Stage One: Let the Architect Establish the Architectural Intent There is such a thing as involving a glazing specialist too early. At the beginning of a project, the most important questions are not usually about frame systems, glass specifications or individual products. They are about architecture. How should the home relate to its surroundings? Which […]
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Aug
Aug
Tell Your Architect How You Want to Live—Not Just What You Want It to Look Like Most homeowners begin a project with images. A photograph of a glass-box extension. A minimal sliding elevation disappearing into a garden. A picture window framing open countryside. These references are useful. They help an architect understand the visual language […]