{"id":1473,"date":"2017-11-14T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.glass.com\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:23:24","slug":"laminated-versus-double-glazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/laminated-versus-double-glazed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of Laminated Versus Double Glazed Glass Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>Dear Glass Detective,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am building a retirement home for my husband and I, and have had two quotes &#8211; one for laminated glass and the other for double glazed glass, the second one being more expensive. I do not understand the supplier&#8217;s explanation of the differences between the two. Could you help me please? Thank you so much!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-Ingrid H.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Johannesburg, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Answer:<\/h1>\n<p>Ingrid,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for contacting the Glass Detective with your question regarding the glass selection for the retirement home you are building for you and your husband. We may be mixing apples with oranges here.<\/p>\n<p>Laminated glass can be used in double glazed windows as you call them. You see, one of the lites of glass in the double glazing could be laminated. These two types (approaches) <strong>are not<\/strong> mutually exclusive. If you intend to use just a single pane of glass, the laminated glass is an excellent choice. However, if you are thinking about using a double pane approach for energy conservation concerns, the double glazing approach might prove superior. The best of both worlds would be double glazing incorporating laminated glass into the double glazing assembly. I suggest you talk to a local glass shop with a good reputation about the performance characteristics of the approaches you are considering.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the double glazing is going to be a little more expensive but any husband worthy of getting a retirement home built for him by his wife certainly must be worth the additional expense\u2026don\u2019t you think? Thanks for contacting the Glass Detective and good luck with your project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Dear Glass Detective, I am building a retirement home for my husband and I, and have had two quotes &#8211; one for laminated glass and the other for double glazed glass, the second one being more expensive. I do not understand the supplier&#8217;s explanation of the differences between the two. Could you help me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1395,1352],"tags":[290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glass.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}