Tarnishing The Furniture
Generally double-glazed tinted windows reduce the suns harmful rays into your conservatory by up to 90 percent, according to The Energy Savings Centre. This improvement in harmful helps to prolonge the life of your furniture by decreasing fading and degradation.
The addition of blinds for your roof particularly in spring & summer, very much reduces the harmful radiation impact further, with our Solar Energy conservatory roof roller fabric permitting under 1% to be transmitted through it, whilst the very best quality pleated fabrics like Hunter Douglas Topar, allows 4%.
Fading of conservatory furniture is usually from ultraviolet radiation from the sun passing through windows. However, UV is not the only element of the elecro-magnetic spectrum which can damage furnishings inside conservatories. Virtually the whole spectrum has fading potential in varying degrees.
Supported by the outstanding energy-efficiency levels of todays low-emissivity glasses, conservatories tend to have large numbers of windows with technically advanced roof & window glass. However, whilst glass such as Pilkington k helps keep conservatories warmer in winter by retaining heat, they actually make them hotter in summer. Consumers also drive this trend, with their demand for large, open interior spaces flooded with natural light, but this then necessitates the installation of thermally efficient blinds that reduce or largely eliminate fading.
Whilst our conservatories become lighter and more spacious, there are knock on effects of our changing society and our interest in global warming, namely the use of materials that are friendly to the environment.
In addition, because of ozone depletion, higher levels of solar UV now reach the surface of the earth. This further contributes to the rate of fading.
Ultraviolet Radiation
The sun's energy is made up of three distinct spectral components, ultraviolet radiation, visible radiation, and near-infrared radiation. The thing that sets these apart from each other is length of the radiation wave that is transmitted from each. Measured typically in nanometres (nm), if you visualise a single strand of human hair, a nanometres is one hundred thousand times smaller than than.
UV radiation is invisible to the human eye and has the shortest wavelengths of the three types, from 300 to 380 nm. Visible light covers the approximate range from 380 to 780 nm, while the near infrared radiation (or invisible solar heat) has the longest wavelengths, from 780 to 4045 nm. Ultraviolet is the main contributing factor in the damage of fabrics, carpets and other furnishings making up around 40% of the damage. The other 60% is caused by everyday elements such as our heating, lighting, moisture in the air and general use on a daily basis.
Protecting against UV is not just important on hot, sunny days. Ultraviolet will still be present on overcast weather and stills gets through the windows and causes fading.
There are now a number of products available to help combat UV transmission. A tinted conservatory roof glass is quite effective with the best eliminating up to 74% of the ultraviolet. With this in mind, you shouldnt just rely on glass to do the job and high quality solar reflecting blinds are still necessary to preserve your home and furniture.
Quantifying the Effects of Fading
Even the greatest expertise used to identify a means of protecting the declaration of independence, were unable to completely prevent fading, but instead could significantly reduce the rate of fading, in some cases by up to three times the norm.
So, the reality is the natural daylight will cause furniture to fade whatever you do. The best you can hope for is to reduce the speed at which your furniture fades over time and the most effective way to do this is combine high tinted glass with a solar reflective set of conservatory blinds.
The addition of blinds for your roof particularly in spring & summer, very much reduces the harmful radiation impact further, with our Solar Energy conservatory roof roller fabric permitting under 1% to be transmitted through it, whilst the very best quality pleated fabrics like Hunter Douglas Topar, allows 4%.
Fading of conservatory furniture is usually from ultraviolet radiation from the sun passing through windows. However, UV is not the only element of the elecro-magnetic spectrum which can damage furnishings inside conservatories. Virtually the whole spectrum has fading potential in varying degrees.
Supported by the outstanding energy-efficiency levels of todays low-emissivity glasses, conservatories tend to have large numbers of windows with technically advanced roof & window glass. However, whilst glass such as Pilkington k helps keep conservatories warmer in winter by retaining heat, they actually make them hotter in summer. Consumers also drive this trend, with their demand for large, open interior spaces flooded with natural light, but this then necessitates the installation of thermally efficient blinds that reduce or largely eliminate fading.
Whilst our conservatories become lighter and more spacious, there are knock on effects of our changing society and our interest in global warming, namely the use of materials that are friendly to the environment.
In addition, because of ozone depletion, higher levels of solar UV now reach the surface of the earth. This further contributes to the rate of fading.
Ultraviolet Radiation
The sun's energy is made up of three distinct spectral components, ultraviolet radiation, visible radiation, and near-infrared radiation. The thing that sets these apart from each other is length of the radiation wave that is transmitted from each. Measured typically in nanometres (nm), if you visualise a single strand of human hair, a nanometres is one hundred thousand times smaller than than.
UV radiation is invisible to the human eye and has the shortest wavelengths of the three types, from 300 to 380 nm. Visible light covers the approximate range from 380 to 780 nm, while the near infrared radiation (or invisible solar heat) has the longest wavelengths, from 780 to 4045 nm. Ultraviolet is the main contributing factor in the damage of fabrics, carpets and other furnishings making up around 40% of the damage. The other 60% is caused by everyday elements such as our heating, lighting, moisture in the air and general use on a daily basis.
Protecting against UV is not just important on hot, sunny days. Ultraviolet will still be present on overcast weather and stills gets through the windows and causes fading.
There are now a number of products available to help combat UV transmission. A tinted conservatory roof glass is quite effective with the best eliminating up to 74% of the ultraviolet. With this in mind, you shouldnt just rely on glass to do the job and high quality solar reflecting blinds are still necessary to preserve your home and furniture.
Quantifying the Effects of Fading
Even the greatest expertise used to identify a means of protecting the declaration of independence, were unable to completely prevent fading, but instead could significantly reduce the rate of fading, in some cases by up to three times the norm.
So, the reality is the natural daylight will cause furniture to fade whatever you do. The best you can hope for is to reduce the speed at which your furniture fades over time and the most effective way to do this is combine high tinted glass with a solar reflective set of conservatory blinds.