Advice 6: Glass types

When buying a given window model one can resin from a standard glazing in favour of a special one adopted to the needs of the house dwellers. In a sunny kitchen one can use the antisol glass units, burglary-resistant ones from the front, soundproof in the living room facing the street, and e.g. double safety glass in the panoramic window. These are of course optional and additionally charged.

The most popular ones are:

• glazing providing protection from sunlight - e.g. Antisol. These window panes are  in-mass colour coated and covered with a special film, coated or laminated. One must decide what level of light transmittance interest him/her and what aesthetic effect is desired. It may be worth your time to ask for glass samples to see for yourself what the effect will be.
• burglary-resistant glass panes, covered with a special laminate that makes them much harder to break.
• safety glass, used to glaze larger surfaces, e.g. balcony windows, that could potentially be damaged in course of normal use:
  • toughened glass breaks into tiny, blunt pieces
  • special laminated glass - hold the structure of the cracked window together
• soundproof windows - marked with a higher level of decibels - RW value - the louder the noise outside of your potential window, the higher that value should be, even up to 42 dB. The standard is 30dB.