The blinds of the conservatory can be very expensive. Too much so in my opinion, specially because I need some - anyone offers:) ? An alternative can be to cover the roof with a thin layer with a special substance called a solar layer that reduces the amount of radiation of the sun that passes and keeps the refrigerator from the conservatory during the months from the summer. But which are they, makes layers solar work, what types of solar layer are available, will he tints the crystal and how much they will cost compared to the blinds of the conservatory?

Conservatory: Which are solar layers?

A solar layer is an extremely fine film of the material that is applied generally to a surface of the crystal or polycarbonate in a conservatory - in the roof and the outer crystal.

Conservatory: The solar layers work?

Yes. The technology is absolutely mature and been has installed not hardly in the buildings of the conservatory, but of offices through world. As of good the individual solar work of the layers is a diverse question that I cannot answer.

Conservatory: How the solar layers work?

The light which we obtained of the sun we contain many more “frequencies” than the visible light that all we see close. Ultraviolet it slightly has a frequency than visible and more highly infrared that takes much of which we felt because the heat has one more a frequency lower than visible. Certain materials attenuate, or reduce, the amount of energy contained in a specific frequency. For example the black objects appear black because they most of absorb the energy that is transmitted in the visible portion of the slight phantom (a name for the range of diverse frequencies). Readier than that one it is to design a material that absorbs ultraviolet and infrared the light but it leaves without touching most of light visible. A good material with left most of the light nevertheless visible but it blocks the other solar radiation. How much visible light that a crystal of the crystal leaves calls to traverse visible his transmittance or the TV, that wishes to be as high as it is possible (for example average a 1,0 figure of he leaves all the light visible to traverse, a reasonable figure is 0,7) and the solar necessities of the coefficient of the increase of the heat (basically how he is hot it will obtain for a given amount of light of the sun) of being as low as it is possible, opinion underneath 0.4. In the E.E.U.U these figures quote like part of the energy efficiency in the sold windows. Because the infrared radiation of the block of these layers they also will provide a certain level of the isolation against the heat that escapes of the conservatory in a cold day of invier to us.

Conservatory: What types of solar layer are available?

The following ones are the propietary solar layers of the conservatory and the window that we have found in the market world-wide.

CoolKote - this one is a metalized layer of the PVC that “blocks 80% of solar heat” (infrared probably bad), “99% of ultraviolet” and” it reduces fulgor by 70%”. In proportionate the hot figures of a day to suggest it average temperature in the conservatory on one week it continued being around 23-24 centigrade one after CoolKote had been applied yet up to 45 centigrade ones in a conservatory without applied CoolKote. The readings were acquired 14 days consecutive, but they do not give or any thing of temperature of the outer air to compare it against. A better way to do it would have been to construct two cold marks, one with a crystal of the level crystal inside and one with then CoolKote and to measure the temperature in them on a pair of the daily months and to demonstrate to us which was the difference of the temperature. Then it is the information that has proveído of us in the site can be deceptive - I cannot

Centigrade - this is a crystal rather that an additional layer. That is he has or the layer applied or impregnated in the surface. Not to give any details true of which it is. It reflects “72% of total the solar energy” that is apparently three times that of the normal crystal. It has a 0,45 TV that is low, but this one is only applied to the roof, would reduce obvious fulgor of teh whereas he demands. Another advantage of the crystal is that it apparently reduces to the magnitude of any external noise but a factor of two. This one is probably a characteristic of the crystal rather that the layer itself. It would have thought that nonnotary's offices that much then still you have all the lateral windows done of the noise that it transmits of normal crystal (despite double enameling). Demand that has some hidrofílicas characteristics and so the operation of the water and the dirt hardly of the roof in leaves and therefore he needs less cleaning and because it reflects the posteriora part of the heat of teh within the conservatory the crystals of the crystal is centigrade to warmer up to 5 that of another way, that reduces the condensation. The other materials must do this again.

Wonderglass - this is extensively available in the states and as soon as to begin to get to be available here (I think). Now this one is mumbles of magnetrón of up to 11 diverse layers of material on a crystal leaf. Very impressive. One assumes to be the worlds most of the economic crystal of energy. It far turns aside “85% of the solar heat of suns”, blocks “90% of ultraviolet light”. It has a hidrofílica layer to reduce cleaning and reduces fulgor. Because of a way it is much more of high tech that the competition the previous one can have stop solar rechazamiento of the heat and still to have a TV of up to 0,72 (compared to the level crystal in 0.9 and the double level crystal show window in 0.81)

Conservatory: Teñirá the crystal?

CoolKote: They say the “spread clear gray dye when they are seen of underneath”

Centigrade: They say the “subtle blue dye in the one of crystal”

Wonderglass: They say “to still remaining neutral thread of the color”

Conservatory: Are the solar layers more sales than blinds?

A space of the roof of the conservatory 10m2 with rough cost between £1300 and £1800 to cover with the blinds of the conservatory. Whereas costs of CoolKote between £595 and £600 that will settle by a jet. The other that I have found I am an integral piece of the roof (and or the windows) and I we have not seen no prices to use it instead of polycarbonate ordinary.

Summary

A solar layer could be cheaper than blinds of the roof and your new conservatory is due certainly to consider like alternative to the blinds when specifying.

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