Is the condensation inside the double glazed units? If so, there has been a break in the seal of the glass unit and your window supplier should replace this free…

Yes. You are clearly thorough and have an innate sense of justice - are you annoyed at the comment or feel the comment was unfair to you or unfair in…

From an email of a customer who shared his experience, just outside of Sydney, from 4 years ago, who had 3 of our bushfire rated (a bit more expensive than…

Yes, wide and substantial window frames can make an even cheaply built home look like it has been well built, whereas thin and flimsy window frames can cheapen even a…

Based in Sydney - sorry - probably prohibitively expensive to freight windows over. You are better off ringing a few local suppliers, if you talk to a couple and the…

If you are finding it hard to reach the window opening mechanism, consider switching to an awning window style, where the mechanism is on the bottom. You also may be…

Typically, the lot owner will be expected to draft and have approved a new by law which releases the body corporate of any responsibility in servicing any future door the…

You can have them low-e AND tinted, these are not mutually exclusive! In addition, you have two pieces of glass with an air gap, and these can be the same…

We can produce double glazed, high performance fully glazed Dutch doors in a upvc frame. You could opt to have obscure/privacy/frosted glass on one side.

We can produce up to 7.5m stacker door, here in Sydney. All our products are upvc framed and double or triple glazed. We do not offer single glazing anymore.
Our…

Our triple glazed windows with low-e glass and argon gas can achieve u value of just 0.8, which, while still inferior to your walls, would offer you the kind of…

I trust that you will find in terms of performance vs cost that upvc will offer you the best value for money. Yes there are other colours available now including…

The primary determinant of performance in an acoustic window is glass thickness, followed by air gap and then acoustic seals. The air gaps you have been offered are precious little.…

You can install large windows with a machine or a crane. These can be hired. Or you can get a large number of strong men to manouvre them on site.…

Where are you getting the 6dB from? This is incorrect. You can download an info sheet on this glass from the internet. Ordinary 6.38mm laminated across frequencies 100Hz to 4000Hz…

Hello Sam,
Laminated glass is when 2 pieces of glass are held together by a PVB layer or the laminate. The .38 or .76 refers to the thickness of the laminate.…

We really feel for you because its really hard to stay sane when exposed to construction noise you are experiencing, so we offer the following advice with respect to acoustic…

For the combination of fixed/ tilt & turn/ fixed the window with 10.5 & 6.38 combination would cost $2333 +GST but for the tilt & turn/ fixed/ tilt & turn…

My suggested glass combination for you, if you are looking at upvc windows is 10.38/ 20air/6.38 in our tilt & turn window, this combination achieves 42Rw. Budget permitting, 10.5/20air/6.38 will…

Hi Ed,
Not a lot of time now, but quickly, I thought this was the study you were originally referred to when you mentioned a study done at Berkley, the study…

The Hart et al study refered to earlier (Berkley) is also based on empirical data...The paper is located here:
http://eetd.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/pub ... /5800e.pdf
Its great that you are very…

Hi again Ed,
Is this Hart et al study, then their conculsion is: "Field measurements clearly show a correlation between gap width deflection and temperature,
but it is difficult to draw any…

Hi Ed,
Yes, agree that the primary determinant of acoustic performance is glass thickness, but disagree about air gap. when it comes to thermal insulation we do offer 12, but we…

Fixed flyscreen fitted outside, using clips or a channel. No problem - what is the problem you are thinking of? Tilt & turns are our best selling windows - everyone…

Hello All,
With Kommerling pvc windows we offer, we can easily make triple glazed windows. The triple glazed system is compliant with 44Rw and there are acoustic test reports certiying this…

Sure, Viridian, that's all good and fair, but if a customer had a solar gain issue, ideally they would utilise an outside form of shading eg roof/awning/trees/neighbouring property etc; for…

Install another secondary window, possibly with 6.38 glass, to create a massive 100mm air gap between your primary and secondary window. It all depends on how much you want to…

Low - e glass. Pfft. Sure it works, but we now regularly supply triple glazed windows, and our customers have been very impressed; the difference between single low-e glazing and…

Generally, the thicker the glass, the better the performance. At the same time, thicker glass is more expensive. Also the bigger the air gap the better, and the windows should…

Hello Scott,
The primary determinant of acoustic performance in windows is glass thickness. The thicker the glass, the better the acoustic insulation. At the same time, thicker glass is more expensive.…