Double Glazing - Cosy Winters and Cool Summers! Imagine year round comfort indoors with minimal or no heating or air conditioning! Your home doesn't have to freeze in winter and swelter in summer. Your energy bills don't need to go through the roof either, as you try to keep temperatures bearable. In fact, when properly insulated, all your rooms will be of a similar temperature......a great way to live! The secret to proper insulation? The answer is double glazing. Energy Saving With Double Glazed Windows At first glance, renovating or building with Next Generation Glass double glazed windows might seem like an ‘expensive luxury’, but on closer analysis, you'll find that the long term and short term financial benefits far outweigh the initial investment, with very substantial ‘pay back’ over time. Right from day one, apart from the saving of not having to invest in heavy drapes, pelmets and curtains and extra awnings, you'll use 50-80% LESS energy. In stark contrast, installing single glazed conventional windows and doors, or lesser quality double glazed products, means paying ever-increasing energy bills, year after year, decade after decade. Installing Next Generation Glass double glazed windows just makes good economic sense in so many ways. Government data shows energy efficient homes have a higher resale value because more consumers want energy efficient ‘green’ homes. UPVC WINDOWS & DOORS In Australia, with our ‘earthy’ heritage, using uPVC, which is made from natural materials of salt and oil for our window frames might seem like a new idea, but it's not. Roughly half the residential windows worldwide are uPVC. It looks just like carefully painted timber, yet it is superior in so many ways. An American study showed uPVC windows have less impact on the environment: uPVC windows save 100% of the trees used for timber windows. uPVC windows save two-thirds of the energy needed to manufacture metal framed windows. Readily recycled, factory scrap is cut up and re-used in other uPVC products. Because they never need painting, cleanup and disposal of paints and stains are also avoided. Next Generation double glazing helps reduce home energy consumption by 50 to 80%. Which means greenhouse gas emissions drop along with your power bills. In fact, the PVC (i.e. plasticated uPVC), is so environmentally neutral, it is used for many bio-sensitive applications, including pharmaceutical containers like blood bags. What’s more, unplasticated (i.e. uPVC) is non-toxic, doesn’t off gas, is non-carcinogenic, and biologically inert. Our Products Next Generation supply and install top quality products, sourced from leading names in the field, such as: Kommerling, Walshes, Bennetts, Elevate Aluminium, Cooling Bros, Hafele and many more. The Elevate™ Aluminium Framing range The Elevate™ Aluminium Framing range includes CentreGLAZE™, FrontGLAZE™ and FaceLINE™ framing systems designed to meet the ever-growing needs of the commercial building sector. Elevate™ Aluminium framing systems can be fully integrated with a variety of Architectural and Vantage Designer Series products offering versatile solutions for your building project. Available in 80mm, 102mm and 150mm platforms and designed to accept single and double glazing. Elevate™ Aluminium framing incorporates strong, bold profiles enabling large expanses of glazing to be achieved. We believe that by using the best products available, our customers will enjoy better value for money, longer lasting more secure and better performing glazing products. Contact us today for your energy efficient windows and doors!