Solarium, Sunroom & Skylight Repair

The Bonny Slope neighborhood in Northwest Portland with a client looking to sell their home.

Time to replace the 5 failed insulated glass units in their sunroom structure.

No leaking associated with this particular project, just foggy glass.

These structures are always a bit of a logistical challenge, although this particular one is near the low end of the difficulty meter.

We’re guessing that this structure was installed prior to the advent of Low-E glass, and thus they used what is called Mirror-Glass. Notice the reflection from the exterior side.

If you enlarge the photo by clicking on it…you should be able to see the difference between the two units we replaced with 366 Low-E Glass, as compared to the remaining mirror glass unit at the bottom of the photo.

Mirror glass apparently does a fine job filtering out the heat generating properties of ultraviolet rays, although it is more expensive and does not reportedly help keep the heat “in” as the Low-E products have been designed to do. To read much more about Low-E glass, you might go to: http://educationcenter.ppg.com/glasstopics/how_lowe_works.aspx

Technicians Bruce and Sean shown in the previous photo preparing to hand down one of the original insulated units to Phil & David (above).

Everybody, including Phil McNair taking the photo, is involved carefully installing the new insulated Low-E glass unit.

So not only did we take care of the foggy-glass problem, but the new glass installed should be considered an upgrade, even though it costs less than the original mirror-glass.