Types of Glass

Clear Glass

Clear Glass allows natural colors to show without distortion, provides maximum light transmission and can be tempered for use where safety glass is required.

Low Emissivity (Low-E) Glass

Low Emissivity (Low-E) Glass reduces wintertime heat loss from inside your home due to a thin, nearly colorless metallic coating that reflects heat back into your home. It also allows moderate solar heat gain while reducing harmful ultraviolet light which can damage drapes, furniture and carpets. Additionally, the Low-E coating reduces summertime air conditioning loads by reflecting radiated heat outside your home.

Tinted Glass

Tinted Glass is a combination of trace metal particles and glass that softens internal glare, increases privacy and reduces internal heat gain. In addition, tinted glass blends with exterior wall treatment to soften its overall appearance.

Solar Cool Reflective Glass

Solar Cool Reflective Glass reduces heat and light with a metal oxide coating that provides a mirrored effect. In addition to daytime privacy and minimized ultraviolet damage, Solar Cool Reflective Glass provides a dramatic visual impact and is often used as an architectural design element.

Obscure Glass

Obscure Glass adds privacy where window coverings are not practical or undesirable. Various colors and texture patterns provide a translucent or semi-opaque effect that can also be tempered for use where safety glass is required.

Tempered Safety Glass

Tempered Safety Glass is heat treated to strengthen glass and resist breakage from impact or windload, resist abrasion and chemical damage and reduce likelihood of breakage from severe temperature changes. In addition, tempered safety glass fractures into small, dull pieces if breakage occurs.

Laminated Safety Glass

Laminated Safety Glass combines sheets of glass with a clear adhesive plastic film sandwiched between the panes to keep glass in place should breakage occur. In addition, laminated safety glass reduces sound transmission due to the dampening effect of plastic film and reduces 99% of dangerous ultraviolet rays.

Argon Gas

Argon Gas is a colorless, odorless, nontoxic gas that is injected between panes of glass creating a greater energy efficiency because of the natural insulating properties of the gas.