How Double Glazing Can Save You Money on Bills

As the chill of winter sets in, you’ll find yourself relying more on your home’s heating. With the cost-of-living crisis and rising energy prices, those heating bills can quickly add up, leaving you with an unexpected expense. Instead of grabbing the blankets and hoodies to avoid turning the heating on, there are other ways you can save on your bills. Efficient double glazing is vital in reducing heat loss and heat costs.

Here is why double glazing is a sensible investment and how our double glazing can save you money.

What Are The Benefits of Installing Double Glazing in your Home?

Installing double glazing in your home provides several benefits such as improved energy efficiency, noise reduction, enhanced security, thermal insulation, and increased property value. Double glazing helps to maintain a comfortable temperature throughout the year by keeping the heat inside during winter and outside during summer. Different types of windows have different energy ratings but whether you have casement windows, sash windows, timber windows, aluminium windows, bay windows, French windows or bespoke windows, we have double glazing that can fit and will improve the energy efficiency of your home.

Energy Efficiency

Double glazing is vital in keeping your house warm during the winter. Double glazing uses two panes of glass with a small gap between them filled with argon gas that acts as an insulating barrier. If your home isn’t losing heat, you will use your heating less and save on your bills.

At Albany Windows, we offer double glazing that features Planitherm Total+ Low Emissivity Glass. This innovative coating reflects excess heat and retains warmth in the colder months. This means that when you finally succumb to popping the heating on, that heat will stay where it’s supposed to be, in your home!

Boosting Your Property Value

Investing in double glazing will increase the value of your home. Energy-efficient homes are in high demand, and having double glazing installed is an attractive selling point for potential buyers. Only 7% of houses in Britain don’t have double glazing, so if your home is one of them, it will stick out to prospective buyers.

Reducing Condensation and Damp

Poor insulation can lead to cold air coming into contact with your warm home, which creates condensation. This means you’ll wake up every morning to your windows covered in excess water. Condensation increases moisture which can cause damp and mould that is costly to remove and could even impact your health.

Reducing Noise Pollution

Double glazing is an excellent solution for reducing noise pollution in your home, offering a quieter, more peaceful environment. The glass and the spacer bar between act as a sound barrier that absorbs and dampens external noises such as traffic, noisy neighbours, barking dogs, or construction. Even in quieter suburbs, double glazing helps block out the noise like gardening or late-night gatherings.

Low Maintenance and Long-Lasting

Homeowners who invest in double glazing can expect their windows to remain energy-efficient for many years. At Albany Windows, we offer uPVC and aluminium double glazing that is durable, low maintenance and designed to last for decades.

What if you Aren’t Able to Install Double Glazing?

If your property is a listed building, a period property, within a conservation zone or has planning restrictions, this will limit you from installing double glazing. Your property will likely have single glazing, but you should still be able to improve the energy efficiency of your house and save bills.

Secondary Glazing

The solution is called secondary glazing and works similarly to double glazing but without any replacement windows. Secondary glazing is the addition of a second glazed panel that fits into the frame of your existing windows, removing the need for new windows. This will improve the energy efficiency of your house and will have much lower installation costs than double glazing.

Try our Triple Glazing

Triple glazing is the latest technology in energy efficient windows to hit the UK. Double glazing windows consist of two glass panels with a spacer bar in between. Triple glazing takes things a step further with three panes of glass and two spacer bars. Two spacer bars mean more insulation, less waste and most importantly, lower bills. Here at Albany Windows, we pride ourselves on the amazing difference our triple glazing can make to even the average home.

Save Money with our Double Glazing

With over 20 years of experience and a FENSA certified company, Albany Windows provides high-quality double glazing for a range of properties. As the weather gets cooler, it’s important to understand how efficient your current windows are. Our double glazing windows offer outstanding energy efficiency with our innovative coating, a choice of uPVC or aluminium and several modern and traditional designs. We also offer triple glazing as the ultimate solution for windows.

Our products range in different styles, colours and designs. You can even choose what type of glass you prefer.

We’d love for you to visit the Albany showroom to see our quality products on display, try before you buy, and get professional glazing advice for your home improvement plans.

Contact us now for a free quote and to discuss your exact glazing requirements.

 

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