An unconventional approach

Windows - a key element of the architectural style of home and interior design. Modern window technology allows to realize a variety of ideas using a variety of custom options for glazing. Subjected to all sorts of changes as a form of windows, and their construction. The result of these transformations we see on the covers of fashion magazines architecture. However, each window has its own non-standard features, details of which can be very helpful to prospective customers. This will help in advance, even during the design house or apartment, to provide the best options of glazing. A variety of forms acquired enormous popularity in recent years, various shaped windows. For example, arched design, which give the house a special nobility and greatly increase the illumination of premises. In addition, such solutions can bring unusual architectural ideas, for example, the total box on two floors. Most often figured windows make PVC, as it is much easier, faster and cheaper. In addition, the flexibility of plastic allows more freedom for the imagination of designers. "Non-linear" structure of PVC are produced and installed in the same way as normal, except for one feature. Because the arch is formed by bending a heated profile in this part of the frame there is no reinforcing metal frame, so the rigidity of its slightly lower. This imposes certain restrictions on the size and configuration of the arch. In particular, the height should not exceed half the width of the window. Also, in any case, the diameter of the arch can not be less than 70 cm, and if it opens - then 80. All this must be considered when designing a home interior. In addition to the arched windows, now you can find round or oval. They are often installed between the staircases, bathrooms, hallways and back rooms, sometimes - in the bedroom. Since these structures do not have straight lines, they mean the obligatory presence of horizontal or vertical transom (the crossbar). The size of such windows are also limited, for example, "porthole" mono-glazing can have a diameter greater than 120 cm Finally, figured windows are triangular or trapezoidal shape. Such solutions are often used for glazing and loft attic. The technology of their production does not impose any restrictions on the size of the structure, but we must remember that the interior angles of the main frame must always be greater than 30 °, and folds to the minimum allowable angle of 45 °. Otherwise, the design will not be tough. "Usually before the assembly is removed from the windows double-glazed windows. However, non-rectangular part of the window assembly rassteklyat before installing is not recommended - the Council Sergei Evdokimov, director of "Windows Propleks" - because without the glass, which provides additional rigidity, the frame worn on the anchors can warp. " "Outstanding" box above it came to the windows of unusual shape, but flat. But not less frequently encountered spatial design, outstanding in the plane of the wall. We are talking about the bay windows and lamps. These solutions are transforming the house inside and out, giving an additional amount as a separate room or an entire building. Structurally, these windows are composed of a number of rectangular elements, connected at an angle with a special erkernogo profile. In cross section it is a tube mounted on the outside of it with an adjustable angle connectors installed. This design allows the connection of adjacent linear elements bay at an angle of 90 ° to 180 °. "Today is the decision received widespread - says Leo Minullin, deputy commercial director PROPLEKS Group, Russia's largest producer of PVC window-profile of Austrian technologies. - Pre-assembly of glass are running in production, and final adjustments for the finished design - already on the site. It is remarkable that so you can build not just an ordinary bay window, but rather a large picture window. There were times when installers linking the 25 elements of glass, with no significant rise in construction! "Installation of these windows has its own characteristics. As noted by Sergei Evdokimov, erkernoe connection is always the coldest. "The speaker on the street corner more intensively blown with cold air from the outside than from inside the warm, and hence can freeze - explains the expert. - Therefore, the technology between erkernym profile and mating should be routed PSUL tape (pre-compressed sealing tape). " Expand the framework windows of irregular shape and design erkernye can give your home a truly unique appearance. Often, however, wants more - literally and figuratively. Many people ask: how big can be a window, provided that it retains its protective properties and stiffness? Current standards limit the size of a translucent design of six square meters of PVC (meaning indivisible structure with a common frame). In principle, this much: imagine, for example, the window height and width of 2 to 3 meters - nearly the whole front wall of medium size room in a city apartment. But even a simple window can be "a little bit more." Today, there are solutions, for example, window profile shtulpovy PROPLEX, allowing to make the design without vertical partitions separating them apart. In this case two doors have a common aperture: a closed one of them is fixed at the top and bottom by means of the so-called shtulpovogo mechanism, while the latter, in turn, comes from her engagement. By opening a window of a warm summer day, you can relax in nature without leaving the walls of his house. Is from the windows with shutters and shtulpovymi practical benefit: they allow you to make at home, for example, large pieces of furniture that does not pass through the door. From form to content We have discussed the structural features of non-standard windows. However, sometimes the design intent and involves non-standard internal contents of the window, and in a literal sense. This is a stained-glass windows. These intricate decorative elements often found in buildings belonging to the number of samples of the fundamental architecture. At the same individual house-building, until recently, these "refinements" were a novelty. But today the situation has changed: modern technology has made the window with a picture available to the general mass of consumers. "In recent years, technology has spread, suggesting the use of stained glass films, - says Sergey Evdokimov. - The pattern is formed from the fragments of the film, affixed to the ordinary glass. The seams on both sides bonded lead impost - and stained glass ready. It is placed inside the glass, thus, the composition is completely inside the sealed chamber, where it is protected from any external influences. " Thanks to modern technology we were able to make their homes in the most real palaces and castles. But if in the past it was available only elected, but now that possibility has almost every homeowner with average incomes. So if you want to make your home a unique, remember that standard technology can embody and exclusive ideas.