Preventing all four methods of heat loss

Many homeowners simply accept that the area around their windows, especially larger windows, will be cooler than the rest of the room. But with today's technology this does not have to be the case. Centennial's custom replacement windows are designed to address all four ways in which a window can lose heat in the winter and gain heat in the summer (See How Windows Lose Heat on Window Shopping 101 page).

Conduction

Conduction occurs when warm surfaces meet the cold outside air or in the summer time, vice-versa.

Centennial minimizes conduction of heat by using double or triple paned glass combined with foam-filled frames and sashes. By leaving an optimally sized gap between the inside and outside panes of glass, and then filling the window frames and sash with insulating foam, Centennial's windows act just like the insulation in the walls of your home.

Convection

When air currents develop between panes of glass they can carry the warmth out and the heat in (or vice versa).

Centennial reduces heat loss due to convection by filling the space between the panes of glass with Argon or Krypton gases, which have a lesser tendency to expand when heated and therefore are less susceptible to convection.

Air Leakage

Poorly designed, loose fitting window panes or pooorly installed windows will leak air both in and out of your home!

Centennial's windows are custom fitted to your existing window openings and caulked in place both inside and outside, by our professional installation technicians. Wherever two surfaces meet our windows have multiple layers of weather stripping. Between the panes of glass we use Edgetech Super Spacer®, an advanced material that expands and flexes as the window heats and cools to maintain a perfect seal at all times.

Radiation

Taking advantage of the sun in winter while shutting the summer heat out!

The inner surfaces of certain layers of glass in Centennial's windows are coated with a pyrolytic substance that blocks invisible heat radiation but allows visible light to pass freely through. This means that sunlight can enter and warm up the inside of your house, but the heat radiating from the warm surfaces in your home cannot easily escape back out through the window.