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Why Should You Upgrade Your Conservatory?

Conservatories were not originally built for all-year-round living, but now a simple upgrade can convert them into comfotable living spaces for everyday use.

How to prevent condensation build up during winter?

Often during winter, we crank up the heat and keep all the windows closed. This reduces ventilation and circulation of the air throughout the home. When the inside of a home is warm but the outside of the house remains cool by the cold outside air, the inside humidified air will cool down when it … Continue reading How to prevent condensation build up during winter?

Keeping Character and Keeping Warmer

Homeowners who have a lot of appreciation for their worldly windows and want to keep their character, companies such as Thermoglaz can offer replacements for single glass pane, with ultra-thin double glazing.

4 Key Benefits of Retrofit Double Glazing

After years of supplying and installing retrofit double glazing to homes throughout Canterbury, our customers frequently report four key benefits of retrofitting double glazing windows. These are that they can be made to fit, reduce long term costs, are energy efficient and help preserve historic house value.

Replacing or Retro Double Glazing Windows for NZ’s Winter

With our cold New Zealand Winter just around the corner, it’s the time of year people start thinking about replacing old windows or retrofit double glazing to ensure their home stays warm in the cooler months.

Why Retrofit Double Glaze Your Existing Aluminium Windows?

There are numerous benefits and reasons to retrofit your existing aluminium windows with double glazing. For home owners looking for lower cost upgrades, retrofit double glazing gives a saving of between 30 and 40% over installing new windows. And because it’s such an efficient way of insulating your house and keeping it warm, your power bill is lessened in the long term.

How Double Glazing Works

In most new houses (especially in Canterbury with our four seasons in a day weather), double glazed windows are now installed as standard practice. Even with home renovations, people are looking to double glazing as an easy way to improve the look, value and energy efficiency of their houses. While the heat insulation and sound proofing qualities of double glazing are well known, do you know how double glazing actually works?

Double Glazing: To Choose New or Retrofit?

Thanks to strong advances in technology, glaziers can now offer a variety of solutions for double glazing, from retrofitting your existing windows with double glazing through to brand new double glazing to fit your house and style specifications. When looking at your options, there’s a number of points to consider before choosing to go new, or to retrofit double glazing to your home.