Winter Garden: Comfort in a glass

Winter Garden - a complex system that depends on the glass: the more transparent surface, the more solar energy it can capture. Wall construction, subject to the highest insolation, it is necessary to equip the glasses with relatively high energopronitsaemosti. Simultaneously, we must exclude the possibility of over-cooling the room during the winter season and the impact of too much heat out. Therefore, the thermal insulation is extremely important.

Energy conservation depends essentially on the proper integration of the winter garden in the volume of residential building, as well as ventilation adjoining premises. In this case, the orientation of the building has only a supporting role. Incident angle of the sun's rays are absorbed by the floor and walls, transformed into heat in the winter garden, and adjacent areas. Therefore, the flooring materials must effectively store heat. Ideally, the winter garden should support all year average temperature.

When designing a winter garden, as a rule, there are no standard solutions. In each case, the shape, orientation, location and design dictate unconventional ideas.

Heat transfer coefficient of glass should be 1.1 W/m2. Two-layer thermal insulating glazing with low emissivity coated on the inside, usually reduces the emission of high windows and freely flows into the housing solar energy, reflecting the thermal radiation of the premises. Not the least role in energy conservation is mezhstekolnogo width of the gap. This effect was successfully offset the heat loss caused by convection. Additional thermal protection function successfully executes fills the gap mezhstekolny inert gas because its thermal conductivity is significantly lower than the thermal conductivity of air.

Size mezhstekolnogo period in the winter garden should be chosen depending on the type of inert gas. Thus, for argon, the optimum is 16 mm. Even better thermal insulation is achieved through the use of krypton mezhstekolnym interval of 12 mm.

For effective shading on modern glass special coating that can partially filtered thermal energy. In the summer, with the high position of the sun, sun glasses effectively prevent overheating of the room. They are the same - the best material for vertical glazing. Externally, the special glass is almost indistinguishable from the ordinary: a reflective layer and paint are almost invisible and do not affect the quality and transparency.

The glazing of the roof to safety as the bottom insulation layer is recommended to use triplex. For vertical structures are prescribed glasses coated with a minimum thickness of 0.76 mm, relating to the safety class R1A (in accordance with DIN EN 356). Designs, closer links film belong to the security R2A R4A.

Contemporary acoustic insulating glass, laminated together with the properties, it is recommended to install along the busy highways. However, it is important not to overdo it: the parameters of glazing should provide at least a little outside the background noise would otherwise be more distinct earlier subtle sounds of home.

Thanks to a special coating sunlight and rainwater are an effective means of removing organic contaminants, so the glass with self-cleaning function require minimal maintenance.