Window World of Youngstown

SolarZone&trade Insulating Glass Package

Help Save Energy
and the Environment

Upgrade Your Windows with our Energy Star® Compliant SolarZone™ Insulated Glass Package.

ComfortWorld Windows are already designed for superior thermal performance. By choosing our SolarZone™ Insulated Glass Package, featuring PPG's Low-E Glass and Intercept™ Warm Edge Spacer System, you can help reduce your energy costs even more, while helping cut consumption of the fossil fuels that pollute our environment.

What Makes the SolarZone™ Insulated Glass Package So Effective?

Since 80% of a window is glass, real heating and cooling savings come from improved glass performance.

Our combination of UV-filtering Low-E Glass, insulating argon gas and the Intercept™ Warm Edge Spacer System, creates significant energy efficiency. Together they can cut the damaging effects of the sun, which can lead to the fading of carpets, curtains and furniture by an additional 78% over clear insulated glass units.
In winter, a warmer glass temperature is maintained, increasing the R-value by an additional 104%.
In summer, a 48% reduction in solar heat gain helps cut air conditioning costs.

The result: your monthly utility bills will reflect savings year round, and that should help make you even more comfortable.

The Benefits of the Intercept™ "Warm-Edge Spacer System.

The Intercept spacer system features a unique, one-piece metal alloy, U-channel design that creates an effective thermal b arrier to help reduce conducted heat loss through the window. Its sealed, one-piece design makes Intercept spacers stronger and better at retaining insulating gas than many conventional designs.

Comfortable Rooms Start
With the Intercept™ Spacers.
Intercept spacers are so energy efficient that they keep the edges of the window glass warmer, so your home feels more comfortable in the winter. As you can see below, the temperature difference between the edge of an insulating glass unit with an ordinary spacer, and one with an Intercept spacer system can be dramatic.

With Intercept™ Spacer

With Aluminum Spacer

Intercept I.G. units feature "Warm-Edge" technology that reduces condensation problems around the window perimeter. Compare the Intercept insulation glass window "above left" with a conventional insulating glass window, "above right." Both windows have Low-E glass and argon gas infill. The difference is the Intercept "Warm-Edge Spacer.

This thermograph or "heat picture" compares room side glass temperature for an Intercept I.G. unit (left, yellow is warmer, blue is cooler), and a conventional I.G. unit (right). Since the Interciept I.G. allows for significantly warmer glass temperature, especially at the edges, your home will feel more comfortable.

Conditions:

Cold side temperature = 0° F
Room side temperature = 72° F
Room side relative humidity = 25%

The Intercept™ Spacer Helps
Your Windows Last Longer.
Under normal weather conditions, I.G. units expand and contract with temperature changes. In conventional insulating glass units, the sealant (the material that holds the unit together) takes the stress of the flexing. This can cause seal failure and insulating gas loss. In an Intercept I.G. unit, the spacer flexes instead of the sealant, so it resists spacer movement and premature sealant failure.

Intercept spacers (top) flex instead of the sealant during temperature changes. So they resist spacer movement and sealant failure.

With conventional aluminum spacers, the sealant flexes, which can lead to sealant failure and loss of insulation ability.