DG and Period Properties

[Flyfisher]

Recent article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/09/16/pglazing116.xml

 

[Nemesis]

They were installed in about 1900... but you could see daylight through the frames, there was water penetration and some were screwed in place. When the wind blew the curtains moved."

Might have accounted for some of the heat loss then, or did that not occur to them? I doubt it was the size of window - or the single glazing -those are tiny.

I also wonder where the 'classical proportions' are they 'loved'.

Thin glazing bars and DG mean the seals might not last. So in the end the cash savings might not be as much. Then of course there is the whole wider cost of replacing windows, but the DG sales people aren't really interested in saving the planet.

As far as efficiency of DG v secondary:

the gap between the glazing is important if looking at noise reduction, the bigger the better, as indeed is having well fitted frames. Gaps around the frame allow noise to enter the building more readily;

Edinburgh World Heritage is continuing its work on energy saving but findings so far are here:

http://www.ewht.org.uk/Energy-Heritage-Project.aspx


Section B2 has more about windows:

http://www.ewht.org.uk/GetFile.aspx?ItemId=487

I believe that DG units may be the next to be measured.

 

[Penners]

argon gas, which has higher thermal properties than air

Higher 'thermal' properties''? I wonder what the hell that means? Thermal insulation properties, perhaps?

Sloppy journalism. Harrumph. :evil:

 

[worms]

Did I recognise the penmanship of one of the above posters in the "DG and Period Properties" debate a couple of weeks ago in the Scotsman...?

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/City-Uturn-over-double-glazing.4452063.jp

 

[Nemesis]

The EEN article was wrong (no change there then). EWH is looking at a certain type of DG made in Embra for those unlisted buildings in the World Heritage Site Conservation Area, in order to trial it. I won't repeat what the Director said on reading that article.

 

[worms]

The only thing worse than the EEN/Scotsman journalism is the quality of some of the comments that follow the articles - tempting though it is to comment, I'm afraid I've given up. I guess it is in the nature of a "buttress" to have greater staying power than "worms".

 

[Nemesis]

Ah, but then there is the picture comp - the sort of comments which should be given an x rating I think! That I do enjoy.

The journalism is terrible in the main - and so biased - even decent journos like Brian Ferguson seem to now be writing any old nonsense. It's no wonder sales are plummetting. I suspect that since the demise of certain councillors, there aren't enough broon envelopes being passed around to keep it going. (Whoops - did I just type that?)

Does anyone take it seriously? I suspect that in fact there are several people with multiple user names.

Anyhow - all the Embra news worth reading is here:

http://www.independentrepublicofthecanongate.blogspot.com/

http://www.eh8.org.uk/