{"id":455,"date":"2014-05-24T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/?p=455"},"modified":"2014-05-24T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:38:14","slug":"insulated-glass-windows-and-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/2014\/05\/24\/insulated-glass-windows-and-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Insulated Glass Windows and Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insulating glass is two or more plies of glass enclosing a hermetically sealed air space. Inherently, insulating glass increases a window&#8217;s thermal performance by reducing the heat gain or loss.<\/p>\n<p>Insulating glass units are double sealed with a primary seal of polyisobutylene and a secondary seal of silicone. To provide a hermetically sealed and dehydrated space, the glass plies are separated by a desiccant-filled spacer with three bent corners and one keyed-soldered corner or four bent corners and one straight butyl injected zinc plated steel straight key joint. The desiccant absorbs the insulating glass unit&#8217;s internal moisture.<\/p>\n<p>Typical configurations of insulating glass units.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-456 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass.png\" alt=\"Insulated Glass\" width=\"754\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass.png 754w, http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When specifying insulating glass, it is important to select and clearly define the configuration as well as each individual components of the insulating glass unit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass-Configuration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-457\" src=\"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass-Configuration.jpg\" alt=\"Insulated Glass Configuration\" width=\"540\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass-Configuration.jpg 540w, http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Insulated-Glass-Configuration-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insulating glass is two or more plies of glass enclosing a hermetically sealed air space. Inherently, insulating glass increases a window&#8217;s thermal performance by reducing the heat gain or loss. Insulating glass units are double sealed with a primary seal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/2014\/05\/24\/insulated-glass-windows-and-doors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[14,40,9,11,10,8,62,29,28],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial","category-residential","tag-glass","tag-insulated-glass","tag-massachusetts","tag-metro-west","tag-metrowest","tag-milford-ma","tag-residential","tag-storm-door","tag-storm-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areaglassco.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}