Secondary Glazing North London
Premium Secondary Glazing Installation in North London
Enhance your North London home with our bespoke secondary glazing solutions, reducing noise and improving energy efficiency.
Secondary glazing provides an excellent solution to create a quieter and more comfortable living space.
Additionally, many North London properties, particularly period homes and listed buildings, benefit from the insulation improvements that secondary glazing brings, without compromising the original window features.
What is Secondary Glazing and How Does it Work?
Secondary glazing involves installing an additional, discreet glazed frame on the inside of your existing windows. This creates an insulating air gap that significantly reduces noise transmission and heat loss, essential for many North London properties.
How it works:
- A slimline aluminium frame is fitted to the interior of your current window.
- This frame holds a pane of glass forming an insulating air gap.
- The air gap acts as a barrier, effectively reducing noise and heat transfer.
- A variety of secondary glazing styles are available, including sliding, hinged, and lift-out units, to accommodate diverse window types and requirements.
Is Secondary Glazing as Good as Double Glazing?
While double glazing involves replacing your existing windows, secondary glazing offers a tailored solution that’s often more suitable. It provides many of the same benefits, such as noise reduction and improved insulation.
Key differences to consider:
- Secondary glazing is installed as an additional window, while double glazing replaces the existing window.
- Secondary glazing is often preferred for listed buildings and period properties to maintain their architectural integrity.
- Secondary glazing can be a more budget-friendly option.
Benefits of Our Secondary Glazing
Investing in our secondary glazing offers numerous benefits for your North London home: Beyond noise reduction and insulation, our secondary glazing can also enhance the security, providing an additional layer of protection.
- Reduced noise pollution from city life.
- Improved energy efficiency and lower heating bills.
- Enhanced home comfort and a more peaceful living environment.
- Preservation of your property’s original aesthetic and character.
- Enhanced security for your home.
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SECONDARY GLAZING NOISE INSULATION – M62 CASE STUDY
Living near a busy road or a noisy motorway can face many challenges, the hardest one to overcome is blocking noise entering your home. Cars and heavy goods vehicles are capable of emitting over 85 decibels which can be detrimental to health. Studies suggest that living in areas with high noise pollution can disrupt sleep patterns evoking high levels of stress.
The European Union has set 65 decibels as the maximum acceptable limit of noise that a person can tolerate on a daily basis.
How can noise enter your home?
Noise breaching and entering homes is mainly due to poor acoustic insulation, the main contributor is poorly insulated windows. A single glazed fixed window is capable of blocking up to 30 decibels where a double glazed window in a UPVC frame can stop up to 34 decibels. This noise reduction may seem a lot; however, you can still hear the constant rumblings of nearby traffic.
What is the solution?
Homeowners are turning to secondary glazing to mute noise entering their homes. Secondary glazing involves fitting a discreet internal window in addition to your existing, single, double and triple glazed window. It’s a cost-effective and efficient way to insulate and soundproof your windows. Secondary glazing is capable of blocking up to 54 decibels of noise entering your home, this substantial increase in noise insulation can turn the noise of a diesel bus into a whisper.
Noise Insulating Secondary Glazing
The video above demonstrates the substantial impact that secondary glazing has on reducing unwanted noise levels. Sound is transmitted through the primary window by a direct vibration of the glass. The installation of secondary glazing creates a cavity which helps to reduce resonance, as well as providing an additional barrier for the sound to travel through.
Sound insulation given by secondary glazing increases as the gap between the primary window and secondary window increases. A minimum cavity of 100mm is recommended, with optimum acoustic performance achieved between 150mm and 200mm.
A noise reduction of 48 decibels is easily achievable, with the installation of an acoustic laminated glass 54 decibels and over can be accomplished. The noise performance chart below demonstrates what internal noise levels can be expected with single glazing, primary glazing and secondary glazing installed.
Secondary Glazing Installation
Granada glazing manufactured a horizontal sliding secondary glazed unit to offer up to 80% sound reduction. Our horizontal sliders are one of our most popular styles as it provides optimum sound insulation with a smooth opening and closing function.
The panels slide on durable brass rollers to give access to the primary window for cleaning and ventilation. The panels can be individually lifted out of the frame to give full access to the primary window for when general maintenance is required. Granada Glazing’s trade partner recommended the installation of secondary glazing to mute the sound of traffic passing by. The outcome was astonishing where the noise of traffic was turned from the constant noise of traffic into a whisper, this gave a peaceful nights sleep.
We are acoustic and thermal specialists and have designed our secondary glazing systems to offer the very best performance. You can select from over 200 RAL colours with a matt, satin or gloss finish. Our products are manufactured and powder coated in-house to ensure total quality. We have partnered with over 600 skilled trade installers who will carry out the discreet installation in your home.
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