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uPVC windows and doors have taken the Indian construction market by storm by becoming the favorite choice for builders, architects, and homeowners alike. These windows offer amazing benefits including sound insulation, weather resistance, and strength while keeping the maintenance cost low. However, there’s a hidden element in these windows that supports these features. This element is the reinforcement that is inserted in the uPVC window frame and sash.
While invisible to the naked eye, the reinforcement plays a key role in achieving the desired performance from these windows. You can choose high-quality reinforced uPVC windows for your home, office, or any commercial space to get a modern look without compromising on the safety and security of occupants.
Let’s understand why reinforced uPVC frames and sash are important when it comes to reinforced uPVC windows:
Importance of Reinforced Frames and Sash in uPVC Windows
Structural Integrity: Reinforced frames are essential to the structural integrity of uPVC windows. A reinforced uPVC window can support forces like gravity and wind while remaining structurally intact. However, the mere presence of reinforcement is not sufficient. The reinforcement should be of good quality and the right thickness depending upon the window size. A good uPVC window frame and sash are reinforced with GI reinforcement with thickness ranging from 0.8-2 mm. This is crucial in preventing warping and bending in larger windows or even those that go through many degrees of wind and heavy use. Properly reinforced, the window frame can hold the weight of the glass and support itself against external force or pressure without deforming.
Security: Reinforced uPVC windows offer better resistance to break-ins or forced entry. Added metal reinforcements in such frames make it harder for any intruder to tinker with the frame in hopes of getting inside. The reinforcement provides excellent anchorage to locks and hinges, improving the security of the window immensely.
Thermal efficiency: Steel reinforcement enhances the strength and stability of uPVC windows preventing them from warping under extreme temperature changes. This stability plays a crucial role in providing a tight seal between the window frame and glass, which is essential for preventing air leakage and maintaining thermal efficiency.
Aesthetic and functional flexibility: It allows for larger designs of windows without loss of structural integrity, which offers more design flexibility and creates expansive, uninterrupted views. Reinforced uPVC windows can also support the weight and size of double and triple-glazing units. Reinforced frames support the smooth operation of sliding and hinged mechanisms, thus ensuring ease of use and avoiding operational problems.
Benefits of Reinforced Frames in uPVC Windows
Weather Resistance: These reinforced uPVC window frames are made in such a way that they keep themselves intact in any weather condition. This means reinforced uPVC windows can withstand harsh climate conditions such as extreme cold, heat or humidity. This even means the ability to resist saltwater corrosion, especially in areas that are close to coastal belts where salty air can corrode metallic windows.
More immunity to environmental elements maximizes the life of reinforced uPVC windows, thus reducing maintenance costs while at the same time keeping their appearance intact.
Support for Larger Window Configurations: Reinforced frames can support much larger and more complex window configurations. It provides more design freedom for architectures to create contemporary and seamless windows covering full height or width offering panoramic views Such windows offer necessary support to maintain sturdy, safe big doors even in high wind.
Impact Resistance: uPVC impact resistant windows show a much better improvement in impact strength over the standard systems of the window. They are more resistant to accidental impacts, like with a ball or branches, and even cataclysmic weather conditions, like hailing or high winds. Occupants feel safer and more secure in impact resistant frames against elements of bad weather.
Compatibility with High-Performance Glazing
Reinforced frames can support double or triple glazing in uPVC windows. Not only that but they can be fitted with different types of glazing such as laminated, tinted, Low-E, toughened, etc. These glazing can offer several benefits such as advanced thermal insulation, sound insulation, and UV screening. Strengthened frames can hold structurally heavier and more complex glazing systems. Hence, it supports the norms and certifications for construction.
Conclusion
Reinforcement plays a key role in the structural integrity, flexural strength and durability of uPVC windows. These factors in turn add to the longevity, low maintenance, and resistance to extreme weather among other benefits of reinforced uPVC windows.
While it doesn’t cost anything extra to ensure appropriate reinforcement is present in uPVC windows, you need to carefully check that the right size and material are used for reinforcement before you choose to install uPVC windows.
Discover GreenFortune, Your Partner in Quality uPVC Windows and Doors
At GreenFortune, we are proud to offer high quality uPVC windows and doors at affordable prices. We offer and install a variety of window types for all homes with both durability and aesthetics in mind.
Contact us to find out more about the GI reinforcement for the uPVC window that we offer. Whether you are renovating your existing home or building a new one, partner with us to elevate the comfort levels and energy efficiency in addition to the style quotient of your space provided by our superior quality uPVC windows.
