How to use all the advantages of glass in the design your home.
Once on FORUMHOUSE turned much discussion about the types of homes. The fact that the majority of developers gravitate to the archetype of "hobbit hole", "home-fortress", with small windows, where you can escape from the dreary weather, thieves, unpleasant neighbors, ugly landscape. And there is the other extreme - a house with glass walls and a roof, the interior of which almost merges with the surrounding landscape. In the discussion we agreed on the fact that we should not go to extremes. Does not necessarily make the glass all the walls - it can only be the one which offers a beautiful view. And to look at the stars, quite roof window.
In this article we will talk about a reasonable glazing house, how glass is used in the design of the facade, there are some difficulties along the way and how to overcome them.
Sergey Elnikov (Marketing Manager of the company VEKA Rus):
Glass can be used in any room and for any purpose. Yet the main trump card of glass is in a special relationship with the light in his ability to pass, refract, veil, painted luminous flux, change their direction and intensity, thereby affecting the person's perception of the surrounding space. Thus, the glass doors make the space bigger and brighter, as if they are talking to all the guests that in the house or office one of the most important values is openness and willingness to communicate, that is literally "nothing hide".
glass wall
The houses in which glass is used as a building material, can now be found in every region of our country. The glass roof, glass floor, sliding glass doors, stairs, railings, canopies - those details are attracted a growing number of homeowners, and more and more customers in the mortgage interest masimalno project their homes glazing. Huge, full-length windows install, even in the coldest regions: in this photo, for example, a house that was built in the suburbs of Irkutsk.
And this - the kind that opens from this window.
Sergey Elnikov:
Panoramic windows will be beautiful and safe in all conditions, if they comply with the requirements of system companies to design and installation. If the window company engineer said front element of such a size can not be done, then, he has reason for such assessments. The problem is usually not that something can not be done, but the fact that the customer can not agree internally, that "it may cost so expensive."
And the opportunities to use the panoramic glazing, according to Sergei ElnikovaMore than enough: there is a special insulating materials, sealants, wide profile systems, allowing to establish multi-chambered windows width to 52 mm. In respect of glass and there are many opportunities for them to work properly in the most difficult conditions. You can pre-calculate the load and the impact on the package and on this basis, select the correct options - the thickness and type of glass, the distance between the cameras and more. It is important that the design maintained dimensional stability, and for that you need to use - if we about speak PVC constructions - only high quality profiles having an outer wall thickness is not less than 3 mm.
Most importantly, as a user of our forum says Michael-snabss, abandon stereotypes. Typically, houses are built parallel to the sides of the plot. But the glass wall should not be directed to the north, so the house in this style is directed to the south.
Michael-snabss (user FORUMHOUSE):
You can turn the house as you like, and no matter what he will stand sideways to the road.
atypical windows
Existing technologies and materials practically do not restrict architectural fantasies. Your window may look as you want.
Sergey Elnikov (marketing manager of the company Veka Rus):
Non-standard, commonly referred to as the window, the basic parameters of the design which - form (external geometric pattern), color, proportions (internal geometric design) differ from those generally accepted. At the same time that a certain cultural flavor niche can be considered as a standard solution, the other will be perceived if not as exclusive, then certainly as non-standard.
For example, most of the windows in Southern Europe are made from non-ferrous profiles, while at the We colored windows are still considered non-standard, although their share in total sales is constantly It is growing. Shutters in Germany are considered, as a rule, part of the normal order, whereas in Russia it is still something "excessive."
The designer can experiment not only with color, but also to the shape of the window. It tells Sergey Elnikov, PVC is very easy to process, and it allows you to design and produce a variety of window shapes - arched, trapezoidal, triangular, and even round.
In the case of non-standard windows it is very important to comply with the prescribed rules of the author of the profile design and installation of the system. It is important to understand that the color profiles and windows of them - is not just a variation of the usual white windows, it's other products to Other characteristics and consumer properties, and others act against them more stringent tolerances and restrictions.
Sergey Elnikov:
So, the color of windows is less than the maximum allowable size of the opening part; in some cases, a conventional metal reinforcement may be insufficient, and will have to use more massive reinforcement. Has its peculiarities when installing such structures (smaller distance between the attachment points).
In any case, here we must listen carefully to the advice and suggestions of the specialist window company, which it will do on the basis of the characteristics of a particular opening.
Skylights
Skylights can turn the most dismal attic in a beautiful room with a nice soft natural light. The light from this window with proper planning will be distributed evenly throughout the room, and the light output will be significantly higher than in vertical windows. Dormer windows look great in the roof truss system, and they can be used to give the house a unique appearance using vertical, horizontal and combined variants.
The first thing to do before buying a window to the roof - to decide on its size, the useful area of glazing (recommended value - 1:10 to the area premises), the method of opening the windows and purpose (so, for the living room, and a children's bedroom is better to choose wood windows, bathroom and kitchen - plastic). Two small windows give more light than a small one. If the attic is decorated with several windows, the distance between them should be at least more than 10 centimeters. Determine the size of the window will pitch: the greater the deviation, the shorter the window, and vice versa
Anton Lyubavin (Public Relations Specialist Company FACT):
The higher the window, the more light it gives, so skylight located at a distance of not less than 80-110 centimeters from the floor. The handle is located at the bottom of the roof window, will be a great advantage, because it allows to mount it on a height of 110-170 cm from the floor. A tall windows or combined with cornice windows provide you with maximum visibility.
Often the installation of the roof window stop security concerns: it is not known how it will behave in bad weather, and not whether it will be a lure for thieves?
In good producers even in the base model dormers exterior glass - tempered and resistant to extreme weather events, including hail. Many models are equipped with impact-resistant glazing windows "triplex", which can withstand the same load as the roof. As for protection against thieves, this issue is also crucial: there are security systems that further enhance the fixing of special hinges and locking elements. They make it almost impossible to hack windows.
According to forumchanin Chudodesert, the use of laminated glass - great for security, the more so that it can be made energy efficient.
Chudodesert (User FORUMHOUSE):
Triplex no splinters never gives. Even in case of breakage of one of glass or of both - the design continues to hang on the film / gel. It looks so good that a finger can not even crack probe.
Two important points about which we should not forget when installing windows:
- heat sources should be placed directly under the window;
- Interior trim slopes must be performed correctly, i.e., the upper slope should be parallel to the floor, and the lower - perpendicularly.
If these two conditions are proper air circulation around the windows will help prevent condensation on the pane.
In addition to the correct selection of thermal insulation materials, you should pay attention to the energy efficiency of the windows themselves.
But most homeowners fear the loss of heat. Nobody wants to bear the additional costs for heating the attic, especially if we are talking about cold regions, and especially now that more and more people tend to make their homes energy-efficient. Here, he says Anton LyubavinIn addition to the correct selection of thermal insulation materials, you should pay attention to the energy efficiency of the windows themselves. Everyone knows that in Finland the new product release windows with R> 1 ratio. With proper planning and execution of the size of any windows, including roof, can be quite large. Frost-saving glazing filled with argon and equipped with a remote frame warm TGI, to prevent condensation.
For the coldest regions of Russia superenergosberegayuschie designed kits that are able to withstand record low temperatures and protects against moisture. And in regions with heavy snowfalls optimally suited heated windows with heat cable, which is to get rid of the need for regular cleaning of the windows of snow and ice. Glazed windows and cable heat up, and due to this ice melts around the perimeter of the window. By the way, even in the installed windows can be replaced with a conventional double-glazed window to easily heated.
Skylights can become your home for one of the key elements of the interior. But most importantly, due to its high light transmission, thermal protection, safety and convenience, they are functional. With the right choice of the attic window in the room can be transformed for any purpose - bedroom, office, workplace, children and even the bathroom.
On FORUMHOUSE assembled a vast array of information on the selection, installation and operating features windows of various designs and from different materials. You can learn from the experience of choice PVC windows and doors for frame home users of our portal. And our video will tell you how to mounted skylights.
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