Introduction to Wideline’s Glass Options
Wideline offers a variety of glass options designed to meet different needs, whether you’re looking for energy efficiency, security, or noise reduction. This guide will help you understand the features and benefits of each glass type, ensuring you make an informed decision for your home.
Overview of Glass Types
Wideline’s range of glass includes energy-efficient glass, tinted glass, laminated glass, double glazing, and soundproof glass. Each type is engineered to provide specific benefits, making it easier for homeowners and builders to find the perfect solution for their projects.
Energy-Efficient Glass
Benefits of Energy Efficiency
Energy-efficient glass helps reduce your home’s heating and cooling costs by minimising heat transfer. This type of glass maintains a comfortable indoor temperature year-round, reducing reliance on HVAC systems and lowering energy bills.
Types of Energy-Efficient Glass
Wideline offers several types of energy-efficient glass, including low-E (low-emissivity) glass and double glazing. Low-E glass has a special coating that reflects heat, while double glazing features two glass panes with an insulating layer of air or gas between them, providing superior thermal performance.
Tinted Glass
Features and Benefits
Tinted glass reduces glare and blocks a significant amount of solar heat, making it ideal for homes in hot climates. It also adds privacy and can enhance the aesthetic appeal of your home with various tint shades available.
Popular Applications
Tinted glass is commonly used in living rooms, sunrooms, and offices, where reducing glare and heat is essential. It’s also a popular choice for windows and doors facing direct sunlight.
Laminated Glass
Safety and Security Features
Laminated glass consists of two or more layers of glass bonded together with a plastic interlayer. This construction makes it highly resistant to breakage, providing enhanced security. Even if broken, the glass fragments remain bonded to the interlayer, reducing the risk of injury.
Where to Use Laminated Glass
Laminated glass is ideal for areas requiring extra security, such as entry doors, ground-floor windows, and skylights. It’s also effective in reducing noise, making it a great option for homes near busy roads or airports.
Double Glazing
How Double Glazing Works
Double glazing involves two panes of glass separated by an insulating gap filled with air or inert gas. This design significantly reduces heat transfer and enhances thermal insulation, keeping your home warm in winter and cool in summer.
Advantages of Double Glazing
Double glazing offers numerous benefits, including improved energy efficiency, reduced noise pollution, and enhanced security. It also reduces condensation on windows, maintaining a clear view and preventing mould growth.
Soundproof Glass
Importance of Soundproofing
Soundproof glass is essential for creating a peaceful living environment, especially in noisy areas. It reduces external noise, ensuring a quieter and more comfortable home.
Best Uses for Soundproof Glass
Soundproof glass is perfect for bedrooms, home offices, and living rooms where tranquillity is paramount. It’s also beneficial for homes near highways, train tracks, or bustling urban areas.
Viridian VFloat™ Toned and VFloat™ Supertoned
There are many options available in Energy efficient glass which start with toned glass for solar control. Viridian VFloat™ Toned and Viridian VFloat™ Supertoned glass are ideal for hotter climates or demanding window orientations such as West facing. Both products offer superior clarity whilst reducing the sun’s glare. VFloat glass offers the following benefits:
- Solar control reduces heat entering through windows
- Colour right through the glass
- Available in a range of colours including Clear, Light Grey, Grey and SuperClear.
- Glare reduction.
Viridian ComfortPlus™
Viridian ComfortPlus™ is a laminated single glazed, Low E glass. It helps to provide year round comfort and is known as Australia’s leading choice in single glazed energy efficiency. ComfortPlus™ can provide up to 39% better insulation than ordinary glass and similar solar control advantages to toned glass.
Features and benefits include:
- All seasons comfort
- Grade A safety glass for peace of mind
- Insulation and choice of solar control performance level
- Blocks 99% of UV penetration, reducing fading in furnishings
Viridian SmartGlass™
SmartGlass™ is a single glazed product with a Low E coating which offers insulation and a choice of solar protection to reduce heat gain. It’s the perfect choice for the Australian environment and is known as Australia’s leading choice in single glazed energy efficiency.
Low-e, or low-emissivity, glass is standard float glass which has an ultra thin transparent coating on one surface that is capable of reflecting the sun’s energy (infrared and ultraviolet light) coming through the glass, without affecting the amount of natural light entering your home. This works to keeps the heat out and reduce your need for home heating appliances.
Features and benefits include:
- Low E insulation with a choice of solar control performance for residential applications
- Provides a good entry level energy efficient alternative to ordinary glass
- Low E coating is ideal for single glazing
- Low reflectivity
- Can be toughened for A grade safety glass
- Suitable for most standard single glazed window frames
- Available in SP10 Clear, SP30 Neutral and SP35 Grey to achieve different performance capabilities.
Acoustics
Unwanted noise from traffic, aircraft, trains, factories or even boisterous neighbours can be reduced with the right selection of glass. Viridian VLam Hush™ is a laminate that uses a specially developed interlayer to dampen noise, providing enhanced sound insulation performance. By using this innovative laminate, thinner lighter glass can be used for an equivalent acoustic performance of thicker glass.
Privacy
When you need natural light and privacy, frosted glass is a practical solution. Viridian’s LuminaMist (VLam Translucent) and LuminaCloud (DécorSatin) allow you to stay connected with the outside while keeping your indoor space private.
Glass Cleaning & Maintenance
For advice on how best to care for your glass visit the Viridian website
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