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How Your Image Glass Installer Can Lower Heat Transmission with Commercial Glass Windows
Whether your commercial or retail building is located in a warm or temperate climate zone, the upcoming summer means that you’ll need to avoid heat transfer from the glass. Your Image Glass installer understands all about how to ensure that the right glass, tinting and installation methods can help to keep your air conditioning from working as hard in the summer.
Controlling the amount of heat that comes through glass in these cases becomes the dominant design issue. As you may know, heat travels through glass due to direct radiation from the sun and through the transfer of outside ambient heat. This requires selecting glass with some type of thermal control to address both the direct sunlight and the ambient heat.
There are essentially two ways to provide direct solar control with glass. The first is through the use of coatings added to the glass, which reduces heat and UV light transmissions. Tints add color and greater aesthetic interest to the outside of your building while they reduce the visible light transmittance (VLT) through the glass. The degree of reduction depends on the degree of tinting and the color selected. The key to selecting tinted glass is finding the balance to achieve solar control, help control glare and contribute to the aesthetics of the building.
Tinted glass is readily available in a variety of thicknesses (generally between 1/8 inch and 1/2 inch) and can be processed and fabricated similarly to normal float glass making it a convenient way to reduce solar gain. Tinted glass features a full range of color choices such as green, blue, blue-green, bronze, and grey colors. They commonly provide low external and internal reflectance meaning that they are not very mirror-like. They can be laminated, strengthened, and even bent using standard techniques.
Further, they can be used singly or in combination with other glazing in insulating glass units. All of these traits have made tinted glass a common solar control choice in low, mid, and high-rise office buildings, medical / hospital buildings, educational / school buildings and retail locations.
At Image Glass, our glass installer and glass repair experts have a great deal of knowledge about how different types of glass are manufactured and the best practices for use and installation. This enables them to ensure your satisfaction and safety today and tomorrow. To learn more about how the Image Glass team can help you to achieve beauty, efficiency, safety, and comfort with each installation, call us at (732) 438-8551
to speak to one of our glass specialists.
We are excited to announce Image Glass has grown & acquired Hillsborough Glass Company! Kurt is the new owner of Hillsborough Glass, which will now be known as Image Glass LLC with 2 locations- Monmouth Junction and Hillsborough. Hillsborough Glass began in 1976 with George “Chip” Christiansen. John Harenza began working for him in 1977. John took over Hillsborough Glass in 2002 and has been in the industry for 43 years. Kurt worked summers at Hillsborough Glass growing up, and started officially working at Hillsborough Glass in 2000 to learn the trade. In 2003 he went off on his own to create Image Glass LLC. in Monmouth Junction NJ. Hillsborough Glass and Image glass have always worked hand in hand over the last 20 years with Hillsborough Glass serving Somerset County and Image Glass serving Middlesex County. Even though our name is changing, you will still see the same friendly faces, as our friend John is staying on board as well as the rest of the team. We are so excited to now be servicing Somerset County with our new name Image Glass moving forward!
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In past blog posts, we’ve talked about tempered glass commercial application usage as well as its use in glass shower doors. In the field, an image glass installer will get questions about different types of glass and its strength. Based on those questions, we decided to provide a primer on how tempered glass and heated glass are made and what properties they bring to safety.
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